**Program Office:**International and Foreign Language Education

**CFDA Number:** 84.021A (Short-Term); 84.021B (Long-Term)**Program Type:** Discretionary/Competitive Grants**Also Known As:** Fulbright-Hays or GPA

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Program  Description

This program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, group research or study, or advanced intensive language programs.

Types of Projects

There are group projects in research, training, and curriculum development.

Additional Information

Projects must focus on the humanities, social sciences and languages, and must focus on one or more of the following areas:  Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere (Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Near East.  Applications that propose projects focused on Canada or Western Europe will not be funded.

**The GPA program oversees two competitions.  It holds an annual competition for the following:**

**Short-Term Seminars -** A short-term seminar is designed to help integrate international  studies into an institution's or school system's general curriculum. Seminars normally are  five to six weeks in length and focus on a particular aspect of area studies, such as the culture of the area or a portion of the culture.

**Short-Term  Curriculum Development -** A curriculum development team, composed of several  faculty members or teachers or administrators, may spend four to six weeks in a  foreign country or region acquiring resource materials for curriculum  development in the modern foreign language or area studies programs. Resource  materials may include artifacts, documents, books, educational films, museum  reproductions, recordings, and other instructional materials. The project shall  provide a systemic use and dissemination in the US. of the acquired materials.

**Short-Term Group Research -** Short-Term group research projects are designed to undertake research or study in a country outside of the United States. These projects are a minimum of 12 weeks in the country of study and the performance period for this grant is a maximum of 18 months. Applicants who are interested in longer and more advanced study projects should refer to the long-term overseas project.  

**Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Projects** - An advanced overseas intensive language project is designed to take advantage of the opportunities present in the foreign country by providing intensive advanced foreign language training. Language training shall be given at the advanced level, i.e., at the level equivalent to that provided to students who have successfully completed at least two academic years of language training. The language to be studied shall be indigenous to the host country and maximum use shall be made of local institutions and personnel. Under the grant, an advanced overseas intensive language project period may not exceed 12 months. Project activities may be carried out during a full year, an academic year, a semester, a trimester, a quarter, or a summer.