For grants to place and monitor participants, experience conducting academic exchanges is necessary.
Application is through a merit-based open competition.
For grants to place and monitor participants, experience conducting academic exchanges are necessary. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. For the administration of the program, and open competition is held every three years and is published in the Federal Register. For participation in the program and open competition is held once a year by the administering organization and is advertised through mass mailings, presentations, journals, professional associations, the Internet and other sources. Funding decisions are at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs and are based on the advice of a panel of reviewers and various Department offices.