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2017 News

Announcing the 2017-2018 U.S. Fulbright-Schuman Grantees

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 […]

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2017 News

2017-2018 EU Fulbright-Schuman Grantees

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 […]

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2016-17 Americans in the EU

Studying Violence: When Research and the Real World Collide

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 […]

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2017 EU-US Young Leaders Seminar

EU-US Young Leaders Seminar

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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2017 EU-NATO Seminar

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, […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Hi, my name is Viorica and I am European

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 […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Our first American Thanksgiving

Fulbright friendship We are two Fulbright grantees from France, Farah and Raphaële. We met in Paris during the pre-departure orientation meeting organized by the French Fulbright Commission, and decided to meet up again in New York at the beginning of the academic year. Since then, it has become a tradition for us to see each […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

A Fulbright-Schuman Scholar in the District

I chose Georgetown University as my destination because of my research interests. I am in the close-to-final stage of my PhD dissertation, and wanted to work in a place that seemed to fit my research needs and plans the best. Not only were my expectations were met in Georgetown, but also exceed, making my experience […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

At The University of Michigan: A Unique Opportunity to Reflect on the E.U. and the Refugee Crisis

It is almost two months already since I left Belgium to start my experience as an EU Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at the renowned University of Michigan Law School. Travelling for the first time to the other side of the Atlantic has soon become a totalizing experience of life during which I have been learning a lot […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Environmental Experiences from Vermont Law School

Vermont Law School (VLS) is utterly charming. Nestled in nature and river-rounded it is a wonderful place to research and enjoy all things environmental (whether natural; situational; or cultural). I find it hard to believe that I’ve already been here a month. Time has skipped joyfully by, thanks to a combination of kind, colourful and […]