(FOA)-Limited Submission – DoED – Office of Postsecondary Education – Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (ED-GRANTS-012419-002); March 25, 2019

 

Purpose: The purpose of the Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program is to promote, improve, and develop modern foreign languages and area studies at varying levels of education. The program provides opportunities for faculty, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct individual and group projects overseas to carry out research and study in the fields of modern foreign languages and area studies. This competition will support both Fulbright-Hays GPA short-term projects and Fulbright-Hays GPA long-term projects.

This program has one absolute priority, and thereby requires a group project that focuses on one or more of the following geographic regions of the world: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere (Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), Eastern and Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Near East.

 

Short-Term Projects

There are three types of GPA short-term projects:

1. Short-term seminar projects of four to six weeks in length designed to help integrate

international studies into an institution's or school system's general curriculum by focusing on a particular aspect of area study, such as the culture of an area or country of study;

2. Curriculum development projects of four to eight weeks in length that provide participants an opportunity to acquire resource materials for curriculum development in modern foreign language and area studies for use and dissemination in the United States and;

3. Group research or study projects of three to twelve months in duration designed to give participants the opportunity to undertake research or study in a foreign country.

 

Competitive priority is also given to projects:

1.  from minority serving institutions, community colleges, new applicants or state educational agencies;

2.  with substantive training in and focus on modern foreign languages other than French, German and Spanish and;

3.  that include K-12 educators.

 

Long-Term Projects

GPA long-term projects are advanced overseas intensive language projects that may be carried out during a full year, an academic year, a semester, a trimester, a quarter, or a summer. GPA long-term projects are designed to take advantage of the opportunities that exist in the foreign country for intensive advanced language training and for using the language while experiencing the culture in the foreign country. Requirements:

1.     Participants should have successfully completed at least two academic years of training in the language to be studied in order to be eligible to participate in a GPA intensive advanced language training program.

2.     In addition, the language to be studied must be indigenous to the host country and maximum use must be made of local institutions and personnel.

Competitive preference is also given

1.     to projects from minority serving institutions and;

2.     applications that focus on modern foreign languages other than French, German or Spanish. 

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: up to$100,000 for short-term projects for 18 months; up to $250,000 for long-term projects up to 24 months

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1 for either the short-term or the long-term opportunity

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by February 19, 2019:

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  March 25, 2019