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Undergraduate Exchange Program Note: The 2008 application deadline for this grant has passed. Please check back in October 2008 for information on the next call for applications.
The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP) supports students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, and Ukraine* for one year of non-degree academic studies in the United States. Applicants must currently be enrolled as a second-year student at a university in their home country to be eligible.
*Applicants from Ukraine must be studying in the regions of Dnipropetrovska, Zaporizhzhya, or Donetsk to be eligible.
The program seeks to assist educational and civic development in South Eastern and Eastern Europe and Mongolia by exposing participants to a liberal-arts curriculum, different models of classroom instruction, community service work, and civil society–related programming. UEP combines the U.S. liberal arts academic experience with exposure to American social issues and civic development through involvement in community service–related work. The program aims to create lasting ties among participants and their American colleagues, thereby contributing to cultural understanding and tolerance.
Participants attend a university or college in the United States for one year. While in the United States, grantees agree to complete 25 hours per semester of community service work in an area of interest to them. At the end of the year, they are expected to return home to complete their degrees. Once back in their home country, grantees complete a community service project in their own community.
Criteria
In order to qualify for the program, an applicant must:
- Be a resident of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia or Ukraine.
- Be a current second-year undergraduate student studying American Studies, Art History, Classical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Economic Theory*, Fine or Performing Arts, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Literature and Languages, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, or Women’s or Gender Studies. *Please note that economic theory does not include business administration or management.
- Be enrolled in an accredited university in his or her home country. Ukrainian applicants must be studying at a university in Dnipropetrovska, Zaporizhzhya or Donetsk to be eligible.
- Be in the second year of study when applying and return to their home country to complete their degree following the program.
- Have an outstanding academic record.
- Have a history of community and/or extracurricular involvement.
- Have spent previous two years in residence in home country.
- Have not attended a university in the United States.
- Have not attended high school in the United States for more than one academic semester.
- Be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
- Be able to begin studies in the summer of 2008.
To Apply
Applications may be submitted online at http://oas.soros.org/oas/. A full application is also available for download below.
Deadline
Note: The 2008 application deadline for this grant has passed. Please check back in October 2008 for information on the next call for applications.
Contact List
Program Manager, Anne Campbell
Open Society Institute
Network Scholarship Programs
400 W. 59th Street, Fourth Floor
New York , NY 10019 United States
Phone +1-212-548-0175
Email: Acampbell@sorosny.org
National Contacts
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Muhamed Serdarevic
SRCe – Student Resource Center
Univerzitetski kampus
Zmaja od Bosne BB
71000 Sarajevo
Tel: (387 33) 206 048
Fax: (387 33) 212 032
serdarm@bih.net.ba
www.srce.ba
CROATIA
Thomas Farnell
Institute for the Development of Education
Preradoviceva 33
HR – 10000 Zagreb
Tel: 385 1 4555 151
tfarnell@iro.hr
www.iro.hr
KOSOVO
Ibrahim (Ebi) Gashi
Kosova Academic Services
Biblioteka Kombëtare
Prishtinë, 10000
Tel. +381 38 248 887
Mobile : +377 44 500 709
Fax: +381 38 248 886
Email: igashi@kas-ks.org
www.kas-ks.org
MACEDONIA
Bojana Nizamovska
American Educational Center
Biblioteka Braka Miladinovci
Partizanska BB
1000 Skopje
Tel: 389 2 3112 464
Email: bomzich@gmail.com
http://www.aec.org.mk
MOLDOVA
Angela Muset
Educational Advising Center
148 Stefan cel Mare Bd.
2012 Chisinau
Tel: 373 22 221172
Fax: 373 22 221167
amuset@eac.md
www.eac.md
MONGOLIA
Ariunaa Enkhtur
Educational Advising and Resource Center
Cultural Palace Complex Building
Youth and Children’s Library
First Floor
Ulaanbaatar-46
Tel: 976-11-319016
Fax: 976-11-326941
ariunaa@earcmn.org
http://www.earcmn.org
SERBIA
Anica Milenkovic
Belgrade Open School
Masarikova 5/XVI
11000 Belgrade
Tel: (381 11) 30 61 371
Fax: (381 11) 36 13 122
anica@bos.org.yu
www.bos.org.yu
UKRAINE
Educational Information & Advising Center "Osvita"
60 Karl Marks avn., office 74, 75
49000 Dnipropetrovsk
Tel/Fax + 380 (56) 744 6242
osvita@fregat.com
http://www.center-osvita.dp.ua/
