Consulate Kolkata is offering a grant to enhance student mobility from Northeast India to the U.S.

To increase student mobility to the U.S. from the northeastern states of India by promoting U.S. higher education, highlighting student exchange opportunities, and building strategic partnerships. As this programming is happening in a geopolitically strategic location, awareness raising is a successful result in this case as Consulate Kolkata is trying to establish a U.S. footprint in the northeast at this nascent stage. 

The project recipient must highlight the benefits of a stronger U.S. collaboration in these cities, and should be able to achieve the following outcomes:

·        Increase U.S. engagements in Northeast India by promoting higher education in the U.S. among university-age students and youth leaders.

·        Engage with young audiences in select cities of northeast India to build lasting ties through exchanges, cultural programs, EducationUSA fairs, “Experience America Road Shows,” and partnerships. 

·        Expand educational, professional, scientific, technological, and technical exchange opportunities to build partnerships in areas of shared focus.

·        Support democratic values that acknowledge the importance of youth in leadership roles in northeast India as a key strategic connector to the success of the Indo-Pacific vision.

·        Highlight the importance of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion on U.S. campuses.