The Fulbright Commission is pleased to announce the list of the 2017-2018 U.S. Fulbright-Schuman grantees. The Fulbright-Schuman Program, administered by the Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States, Belgium and Luxembourg, is jointly financed by the U.S. State Department and the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. This year, there were […]
Year: 2017
The Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange between The United States, Belgium, and Luxembourg, administrator of the Fulbright-Schuman program, is pleased to announce the results of the 2017-2018 application cycle for the Fulbright-Schuman grant competition. The Commission received a total of 41 applications from EU citizens in the scholar category. The number of applicants in this […]
In late March 2017, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers found the bodies of three UN personnel who were tragically killed in Kasai Central Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Swedish national Zaida Catalan, American Michael Sharp, and their Congolese translator, Betu Tshintela. The three were part of the UN expert panel investigating conflict and […]
From 2 – 5 April 2017, twenty five American Fulbright grantees based across Europe and twenty five alumni of European exchange programs attended the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar in Brussels. The theme of the seminar was migration, with a focus on economic, educational and cultural aspects of integration. Participants whose research or work was related […]
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EU-NATO Seminar 2017
Earlier this week, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels welcomed nearly 50 American Fulbright grantees to 19 countries across Europe for the thirty-sixth annual Fulbright Seminar to the European Union and NATO. Seminar participants are currently Fulbright grantees to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, […]
Smiles, curiosity, intrigue, admiration, excitement, confusion – are just a few of reactions my initial introductions stirred amongst my fellow Fulbright colleagues, students and faculty in my first days in the U.S. Curious as my presentation was at the beginning, it is no longer curious now – only four months after the start of the […]