Eligibility is limited to individuals who, at the time of application, have not yet completed their first year of graduate study or will be entering graduate school in the next academic year. Each fellow's institution receives a cost of instruction payment in lieu of tuition. New announcment will appear in the Federal Register sometime in mid-August, 2000. The information for the FY01 competition has not been released. The application deadline will fall during the last week in October or the first week in November.
Federal funds can account for no more than half of project costs.
Applications will be available September 1, 2000. All seminars are held in countries outside of Western Europe. Grants should focus on issues that span the themes of OERI's 5 National Research Institutes. In FY 2001, ED encourages greater attention to the theoretical perspectives associated with the proposed research. Collaborations are encouraged.