The Department of State is offering this grant for University Partnerships in Turkey and Armenia to foster mutual understanding and educational cooperation.

Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

I. Funding Opportunity Description:

Program Overview
The Educational Partnerships Program enables U.S. colleges and universities and their Turkish and Armenian counterpart institutions to pursue objectives cooperatively through exchange visits of faculty, students and administrators. The Educational Partnerships Program is not designed to support degree programs for undergraduate or graduate students.

U.S., Turkish and Armenian universities that have hosted Fulbright and other State Department sponsored grantees or alumni as professors, students, or administrators are especially encouraged to develop proposals that build on the achievements of these individual grantees and that extend their impact.

Proposals must directly or indirectly make enduring contributions to the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. These might consist of partnerships that focus on English teaching, secondary or post-secondary educational administration, business administration, regional development and tourism and hospitality management, but are not limited to these areas.

Purpose: The Educational Partnerships Program has the following purposes:

– To enable post-secondary institutions in the United States, Turkey and Armenia with similar educational missions to develop and broaden institutional cooperation through exchange of students, faculty members and administrators for the purposes of study, teaching, research and outreach.

– To increase understanding between the United States, Turkey and Armenia through cooperation in higher education.

– To reinforce the impact of other State Department programs, including the Fulbright Program.

– To support the current foreign policy priorities of
the Department of State, especially efforts to promote the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia in the civil society sector and to improve educational outreach to non-elite populations.

II. Award Information:

Type of Award: Grant
Fiscal Year Funds: 2010
Approximate Total Funding: $470,000 (contingent on funding)
Approximate Number of Awards: 1
Anticipated Award Date: Pending the availability of funds, grant activities should begin on or about September 1, 2010 for a 28-month period.
Anticipated Project Completion Date: December 31, 2012

Additional Information:

Eligible Foreign Institutions
Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

Type of Award: Grant
Fiscal Year Funds: 2010
Approximate Total Funding: $470,000 (contingent on funding)
Approximate Number of Awards: 1
Anticipated Award Date: Pending the availability of funds, grant activities should begin on or about September 1, 2010 for a 28-month period.
Anticipated Project Completion Date: December 31, 2012

Additional Information:

Eligible Foreign Institutions
Foreign institutional partners may be recognized institutions of post-secondary education, state-supported universities, independent universities, research institutes, relevant educational authorities, and other public or private non-profit organizations with project-related educational missions.

III. Eligibility Information:

III.1. Eligible applicants:
Applications must be submitted by accredited U.S. post-secondary educational institutions meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501 (c)(3).

III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching Funds:
There is no minimum or maximum percentage required for this competition. However, the Department encourages applicants to provide maximum levels of cost sharing and funding in support of its programs. When cost sharing is offered, it is understood and agreed that the applicant must provide the amount of cost sharing as stipulated in its proposal and later included in an approved grant agreement. Cost sharing may be in the form of allowable direct or indirect costs. For accountability, you must maintain written records to support all costs which are claimed as your contribution, as well as costs to be paid by the Federal government. Such records are subject to audit. The basis for determining the value of cash and in-kind contributions must be in accordance with OMB Circular A-110, (Revised), Subpart C.23 – Cost Sharing and Matching. In the event you do not provide the minimum amount of cost sharing as stipulated in the approved budget, the US Department of State’s contribution will be reduced in like proportion.

III.3. Other Eligibility Requirements:

a.) Technical Eligibility: All proposals must comply with the following or they will result in your proposal being declared technically ineligible and given no further consideration in the review process.

1. It must adhere to the guidelines established in this document and in the Solicitation Package;
2. It must be submitted by the U.S. partner;
3. The U.S. applicant organization must be eligible;
4. Eligible post-secondary educational institutions in both Turkey and Armenia must be included.

Program Overview
The Educational Partnerships Program enables U.S. colleges and universities and their Turkish and Armenian counterpart institutions to pursue objectives cooperatively through exchange visits of faculty, students and administrators. The Educational Partnerships Program is not designed to support degree programs for undergraduate or graduate students.

U.S., Turkish and Armenian universities that have hosted Fulbright and other State Department sponsored grantees or alumni as professors, students, or administrators are especially encouraged to develop proposals that build on the achievements of these individual grantees and that extend their impact.

Proposals must directly or indirectly make enduring contributions to the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. These might consist of partnerships that focus on English teaching, secondary or post-secondary educational administration, business administration, regional development and tourism and hospitality management, but are not limited to these areas.

Purpose: The Educational Partnerships Program has the following purposes:

– To enable post-secondary institutions in the United States, Turkey and Armenia with similar educational missions to develop and broaden institutional cooperation through exchange of students, faculty members and administrators for the purposes of study, teaching, research and outreach.

– To increase understanding between the United States, Turkey and Armenia through cooperation in higher education.

– To reinforce the impact of other State Department programs, including the Fulbright Program.

– To support the current foreign policy priorities of
the Department of State, especially efforts to promote the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia in the civil society sector and to improve educational outreach to non-elite populations.