As part of the Great Lakes - Baltic Sea Partnership, the United States Environmental Protection Agency will sponsor professional exchanges between scientists and policy experts from the Baltic Sea states, Russia and Poland. Successful candidates for this fellowship will be invited to spend up to six months in the United States or Canada working on research or policy issues relevant to both the Baltic Sea and the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes-Baltic Sea Partnership Program is an international cooperative project to improve the quality of water in the Great Lakes basin shared by the United States and Canada, and the Baltic Sea basin, shared by nine countries. The similarity of water quality problems and the necessity of effective regional and transboundary management of the two large catchment basins suggests that there is opportunity for all to benefit from shared experience, common initiatives and joint research.
Opportunities vary, depending on the current research interests and needs of host organizations.
The 1999 round of the Great Lakes-Baltic Sea Fellowship Program awarded four fellowships for Baltic applicants to the United States and Canada. The program received twenty-two applications from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Russia. All applications must be submitted to the program secretariat by March 1, 2000. The expert selection panel will convene in April and applicants will be contacted by the Program Secretariat by April 30, 2000.