SSRC Eurasia Program Institutional Awards for Summer Language Institutes

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SSRC Eurasia Program

Institutional Grants Competition

 

Summer Language Institutes for the Languages of the New States of
Eurasia

 

Application deadline: December 10, 2004 

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council is pleased to
announce a program of support for the summer language training programs
of the New States of Eurasia.  This grant program is designed to support
the continuation and improvement of existing summer language programs,
as well as to encourage the establishment of new summer language
institutes dedicated to the languages of the New States of Eurasia. 

The Title VIII SSRC-Eurasia Program is currently accepting applications
for language programs to be held in summer 2006. Special exception, with
prior written approval, may be made for institutions wishing to apply
for summer 2005 funding.  Grants of from $3,000 to $30,000 each are
intended to enhance the ability of the recipient institutes to provide
fellowships to promising students, as well as financial assistance to
teachers, enrolling in intensive summer programs in the languages of the
New States of Eurasia.  Grants may also support cultural activities that
compliment the formal language curriculum in such programs. 

Languages previously supported by the program include Armenian, Azeri,
Georgian, Kazakh, Tajik, Uighur, Russian, Turkmen, Ukrainian and Uzbek.
Please note that funding for Russian language programs will be available
only for advanced courses, i.e., those offered to students with at least
two years of prior Russian language study or equivalent. Applicants for
qualified programs in other languages of the New States of Eurasia are
strongly encouraged to apply; however, funding is no longer available
for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. 

Please note: These awards are not to be used for the purchase of major
equipment, nor are they to be used towards indirect costs or proficiency
testing. 

ELIGIBILITY 

Applicant institutions must meet all of the following eligibility
requirements. They must: 

*        be American credit-granting institutions that confer
undergraduate and graduate credits to students and in-service credits
for teachers. 

*        offer intensive language training in the United States,
involving a sufficient number of formal classroom contact hours (160 is
recommended for Russian language programs), and providing a full year's
worth of academic instruction. 

*        offer training in the four skills of reading, writing,
listening and speaking. 

*        offer extracurricular, cultural and other support activities. 

Preference will be given to institutions that offer the promise of
ongoing programs. 

Applications are due by December 10, 2004.  Initial awards will be
announced in May/June 2005, and funding will be made available upon
confirmation of enrollments in the summer for which the grant was
awarded.

Funding is provided by the United States Department of State under the
Program for Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent
States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). All grants awarded under
this program are contingent upon the receipt of funding from the US
Department of State. 

Please contact the Eurasia Program for additional information and/or an
application.

Eurasia Program

Social Science Research Council

810 Seventh Ave 31st Floor

New York, NY 10019

Phone: 212-377-2700/Fax: 212-377-2727

E-mail: eurasia at ssrc.org

Web: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia

 


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