Public Affairs Section administers a broad range of educational exchange programs. These programs, whether designed for undergraduate students or post-Doctoral candidates, are intended to further the free flow of information and ideas and to enhance mutual understanding.
They include:
The program is a field-driven initiative in which foreign host institutions conceptualize and design projects of interest within an eligible discipline that represent a priority for their respective organizations. These projects are then paired with a highly qualified U.S. academic or professional, who shares their expertise and assists with strengthening linkages between U.S. and foreign host institutions.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program offers three to five month grants to educators, scholars and experienced professionals to lecture and/or research, or explore best practices to curriculum development in the United States.
Application Deadline: September 16, 2023
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program brings scholars and professionals from other countries to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities that do not often host visiting scholars.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students and young professionals to study in the United States for up to two years and earn a Master’s degree.
J. William Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA)
The FLTA Program provides an opportunity for young, international teachers of English to refine their teaching skills, increase their English-language proficiency and extend their knowledge of the United States by engaging in a nine-month, non-degree course of studies. Besides studying, FLTA Fellows teach their native languages to students at their host universities. Among others, the program is available to native speakers of Uzbek.
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
The Humphrey Fellowship Program is a Fulbright program that brings accomplished young and mid-career professionals from designated countries around the world to the United States for ten months of non-degree graduate study and related practical professional experiences. Fellowships are granted competitively to professionals with a commitment to public service in either the public or private sector.
Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA)
The Fulbright TEA Program brings international secondary-level teachers to the United States for a six-week program to take academic seminars for professional development at a host university and to observe and share their expertise with teachers and students at the host university and at local secondary schools.
Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program – Media Literacy Cohort
The Fulbright TEA Media Literacy Program will bring international secondary-level teachers to the United States for a six-week program. The program will include content-specific coursework with a focus on media literacy and critical thinking. The program will also include a practicum of at least 40 hours with a U.S. partner teacher of English, social studies, history, civics, communications, journalism, math, or science in a U.S. secondary school.
Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD)
Global UGRAD, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and supported by the people of the United States, provides one academic semester of undergraduate, non-degree study in the United States. The competition is open to undergraduate students from underrepresented sectors of East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Near East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.
Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX)
The Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) is a cultural exchange program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and administered in the Republic of Uzbekistan by American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS (American Councils) and supported by the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent and the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The program provides students from across Uzbekistan with the opportunity to study in a U.S. high school and live in an American host family for one academic year.
Application Deadline: September 28, 2023
Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Young Women Leaders
SUSI for Young Women Leaders are intensive short-term academic summer programs whose purpose is to provide groups of student leaders with a deeper understanding of the United States, while simultaneously enhancing their leadership skills.
Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Secondary School Educators
The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Secondary Educators are intensive post-graduate level academic programs with integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide secondary educators (including teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, curriculum developers, textbook writers, ministry of education officials, and others) the opportunity to deepen their understanding of U.S. society, culture, values, and institutions.
Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Scholars
Study of the U.S. Institutes for Scholars (SUSIs) are intensive post-graduate level academic programs with integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide foreign university faculty and other scholars the opportunity to deepen their understanding of U.S. society, culture, values, and institutions.
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TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young girls from Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa to pursue careers in science and technology.
Uzbekistan Business Leaders (UBL) Program
Funded by the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan and administered by American Councils for International Education, the UBL program is designed for professionals in Uzbekistan, ages 22-40, engaged in business, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and innovation, and brings them to the United States to participate in tailored, professional fellowships for four weeks at a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations, university business departments, accelerators, and relevant government offices.
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Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT) (PDF 405 KB)
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program has established a program to train up to 20 professionals from the Eurasian Waste Management sector. SABIT has successfully trained almost 7,000 executives and scientists from Eurasia and other regions. SABIT provides trainees the opportunity to become familiar with a U.S. industry sector and its regulations, establish valuable business relationships, learn about and purchase innovative technologies, equipment, and services, and come to understand market-based business concepts.
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Frequently Asked Questions (PDF-13 KB)
