Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Request for Grant Proposals: Uzbekistan Educational Partnerships Program in Cultural and Comparative Religious Studies

Résumé

The Office of Global Educational Programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the Uzbekistan Educational Partnerships Program in Cultural and Comparative Religious Studies. Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) may submit proposals to support mutually beneficial partnerships which contribute to the development of instruction in comparative religion, cultural studies/history, and English at specific eligible educational institutions in Uzbekistan. The means for achieving these objectives may include the exchange of university and college faculty and research scholars, administrators, and advanced students from Uzbekistan with appropriate U.S. counterpart colleges and universities. In a separate solicitation, the Bureau anticipates announcing a program focused on Religious and Cultural Pluralism in Uzbekistan and the United States. That program will support community exchanges between the United States and Uzbekistan and will support visits by U.S. specialists to Uzbekistan. The Uzbekistani institutions identified for participation in the Uzbekistan