Grants are provided to consortia United States institutions of higher education to establish or operate overseas research centers that promote postgraduate research, exchanges, and area studies. Applications for this grant are available every four years.

Funds are provided to institutions of higher education who enter into an agreement with a trade association and/or business for the purposes of: improving the academic teaching of the business curriculum and to conduct outreach activities that expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities.

Schools of business can apply for funding for curriculum development, research, and training on issues of importance to United States trade and competitiveness. Competitions are held every four years.

This program provides assistance for conferences that focus on issues surrounding Canada, its international affairs, and relations with the United States. Conference organizers are expected to publish proceedings and resulting papers in a scholarly fashion. Grant requests are limited to US$15,000.

This program is designed to assist full-time graduate students at degree-granting institutions of higher education, whose dissertations are related in substantial part to Canada, to undertake doctoral research about Canada. The purpose is to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada and to support the development of Canadian Studies. The award provides assistance towards international airfare and a monthly flat rate allowance for up to a maximum of 6 months spent in Canada while doing research.

The ECA Alumni Small Grants Program provides grants to alumni of selected Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)-sponsored programs for professional development activities.

The Faculty Enrichment Program is designed for faculty members who wish to create or update courses focusing on Canada. Preferred components of study include course enhancement with internet technology, and a study component in Canada. Funding goes up to US$6,000.

Provides academic year and summer fellowships to assist graduate students in foreign language and either area or international studies. The goals of the fellowship program include: assisting in the development of knowledge, resources, and trained personnel for modern foreign language and area/international studies; stimulating the attainment of foreign language acquisition and fluency; and developing a pool of international experts to meet national needs.

The Fulbright Scholar Program with Canada offers several Research Chair awards in the field of Business, Trade, and Finance. Grant lengths are four to nine months. During the grant, scholars are expected to conduct research, develop collaborations, and offer occasional guest lectures at the undergraduate or graduate level. United States citizenship and a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree are required.

Designed to facilitate learning and development through a grant program that targets non-U.S. students to come to the United States to teach and research.  This particular Fulbright program is aimed at further internationalizing curricula and campuses.  The deadline is October 17, 2011.

The following programs offer United States faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture, conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers 105 awards in lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research in business administration, including six Fulbright Distinguished Chairs. The faculty and professionals in business administration also can apply for one of the 144 “All Discipline” awards open to all fields.

To meet program needs, a few Fulbright Scholar awards are allowed to accept additional applicants. For 2010-2011, the following opportunities are still available in business administration:

• Denmark: Award #0016 - Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies

• Canada: Award #0516 – Business, Trade and Finance

• Tunisia: Award #0470 – Business Administration

• Colombia: Award #0526 – All Disciplines

• Jamaica: Award #0542 – Business Administration and Economics; Award #0543 – Business Education

• Bhutan: Award #0480 – All Disciplines

United States citizenship is required. For a full, detailed listing of award information and eligibility requirements write to scholars@cies.iie.org.

Grants are provided to institutions of higher education to fund faculty in order to maintain and improve their area studies and language skills by conducting research abroad for periods of 3 to 12 months. Proposals focusing on Western Europe are not eligible.

The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study. This competition will support advanced overseas intensive language projects.

Funding is available for short-term study/travel seminars abroad for United States educators in the areas of social sciences and humanities for the purpose of improving understanding and knowledge of the people and culture of another country(ies). There are approximately seven to ten seminars with fourteen to sixteen participants in each seminar annually. Seminars are four to six weeks in duration and all are held in countries outside of Western Europe.

The FISPE grant, sponsored by the United States Department of Education, was instituted in order to provide funds to improve the quality of post-secondary education, as well as increasing the amount of students who have access to such an education. Competitive grants are awarded yearly to those with innovative and action-oriented ideas that provide solutions to major educational issues.

The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) provides fellowships to professionals with terminal degrees, master's students, and pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars and from the United States for individual long-term policy-relevant research in Europe and Eurasia. Limited funding is available for pre-doctoral humanities scholars.

The National Science Foundation wishes to fund innovative, high payoff research, which explores new scientific, engineering, and educational areas in IT. Solicitation is considerably broadened to include not only fundamental research in IT, but also new applications of IT in all scientific, engineering, and educational areas, as well as innovative infrastructure to support IT research and education. List of current grant awards can be found at: Small Awards, Medium Awards, Large Awards.

This program provides funds to those creating surveys, studies, and instructional materials developed to improve and strengthen instruction of modern foreign language, area studies, and other international fields to provide a full understanding of the places in which certain languages are commonly used.

The Language Resource Centers Program, authorized by section 603, Title VI of the Higher Education Act, provides grants to institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions, for the purpose of establishing, strengthening, and operating a small number of national language resource and training centers, which serve as resources to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively.

This grant includes financial and technical assistance from the ITA to support projects that enhance the global competitiveness of United States manufacturing and services industries. These funds are intended for non-profit industry groups such as trade associations and chambers of commerce. This groups must match funds two dollars for every one awarded. Individual award limit of $500,000.

The United States Department of Education provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate comprehensive language and area/international studies centers to be national resources for: teaching any modern foreign language; needed instruction in all fields of study for full understanding of areas, regions, or countries where the language is commonly used; research and training in international studies; and instruction and research on issue in world affairs.

The Outreach Grant Program is designed for institutions looking to provide training and development to K-12 teachers specializing in Canada. The primary focus of the program is to encourage greater awareness of Canada amongst American students. Grants go up to US$14,000 annually.

Created to promote academic research, and activities aimed at enhancing programs devoted to the study of Canada and Canada-United States relations, this program offers annual grants of up to US$18,000. Principle areas of interest include projects cultivating awareness of the focus topics, student mobility to Canada.

The Research Grant Program is targeted specifically at individual, or teams of scholars. It is designed to encourage research devoted to a greater understanding of Canada and its international affairs, especially with respect to the United States. Awardees will produce an article-length manuscript, and report their findings in scholarly publications and at scholarly conferences. Funding of up to US$15,000 may be requested.

Research stipends are offered to individuals working in universities, nonprofit organizations, and journalism. Individuals receiving the stipends will be responsible for producing a 30- to 40-page report within 6 months of the start of the project. The amount of the stipends are $20,000 for each research paper.

The program provides fellowships for up to eight weeks to United States postdoctoral scholars and holders of other professional terminal graduate degrees for independent or collaborative research projects in Europe and Eurasia. Fellowships are available to applicants who demonstrate how their research will make a substantive contribution to knowledge of the contemporary political, economic, or cultural developments in the region and how such knowledge is relevant to United States foreign policy.

The purpose of the TICFIA Program is to support projects that will develop innovative techniques using new electronic technologies to collect information from foreign sources. Grants will be made to access, collect, organize, preserve, & disseminate information on world religions & countries other than the United States that address research needs in international education and foreign languages. Opportunities to apply for this grant come every four years.

The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

Funds to institutions of higher education, a combination of such institutions, or partnerships between nonprofit educational organizations and institutions of higher education to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages are provided.