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2018-19 Europeans in the USA

Design your life through Fulbright

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman Stoic Philosopher The Roman Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca almost 2000 years ago described what the spirit of Fulbright simply is today: exchange of ideas, knowledge, culture in order to enhance vigor in our minds and our life. To receive […]

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2018-19 Americans in the EU

Open Science by Design  –  A Fulbright in Review

The ideals and principles of open science (or “open research and scholarship”, as we might express it in the States) are summed up in the EU’s Research and Innovation strategy as “the ongoing transition in how research is performed and how knowledge is shared.” Anyone in any corner of any university could look at whatever […]

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2018-19 Americans in the EU

Four Judges

Primo It’s February and I’m in, of all places, Luxembourg. How did I get here? I accepted a six-month Fulbright-Schuman fellowship in Florence, but we fellows have all been summoned for a weeklong seminar in Luxembourg and Belgium. I’m not thrilled, I admit, to leave my large family behind in a still-frigid Tuscany. But here […]

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2018-19 Europeans in the USA

What it’s like to live the Fulbright-Schuman experience in California

The Fulbright-Schuman Program offered me the extraordinary opportunity of working on my research project in California, collaborating with other researchers and students in one of the best cognitive science labs of the U.S., which has been very worthy for my professional career. I spent 5 months as a predoctoral visitor student in UC Merced researching […]

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2018-19 Americans in the EU

A Timely Look at European Defense Policy

An Interview with Michelle Shevin-Coetzee By Elisabeth Bloxam In April 2019, nearly three years after the June 2016 referendum, the world remains mesmerized by ongoing Brexit negotiations in Brussels and London. For those working and living in Brussels, negotiations over the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union have been so slow-going that […]

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EU-US Young Leaders Seminar

Glimpsing the Future of Transatlantic Cooperation at #EUUSNextGen

From 7 to 10 April 2019, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels facilitated the participation of 27 current American Fulbrighters and 25 European alumni of EU-funded exchange programs in the 2019 EU-US Young Leaders Seminar on “Shared Transatlantic Challenges: Disinformation & the Changing Media Landscape”. The EU-US Young Leaders Seminar was held for the first time […]

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2018-19 Europeans in the USA

Searching for Historical Perspectives

My visit to Columbia University is drawing to a close. The four months I have spent here have been an extraordinary period, and I’m grateful to Fulbright for making it possible. It is next to impossible to describe in detail all the highlights and opportunities that the program has granted me. As a visiting scholar […]

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2018-19

My Fulbright-Schuman Experience in NYC

The Fulbright-Schuman Program made possible one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. Even if I initially conceived it as a mainly academic project, I very soon realized that this would be a profoundly transforming and personal experience. Being in New York City for six months to study at Columbia University was academically enriching […]

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2018

Secure up to 70,000 USD to complete a Master of Arts in German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC!

Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies is pleased to announce its newly-established partnership with Fulbright-Schuman in Belgium. As part of this initiative, the BMW Center is committed to matching funds secured by successful applicants to the Fulbright-Schuman Program for EU Citizens who will enroll in the Master of Arts Program in German […]

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2017-18 Europeans in the USA

Passage from the Balkans to the Tropical Congo and Harvard

From The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You “I tell you what I will and don’t ask me why… I think life is a dream and what you dream I live” “Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, […]