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2016

Innovation Grants support research at the intersection of technology and policy

The text below is a press release from the U.S. Mission to the EU which was released on July 11, 2016. The original text can be found here. Innovation Grants support research at the intersection of technology and policy Ambassador Anthony L. Gardner announced July 11 the successful completion of the first phase of fundraising […]

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2015-16 Americans in the EU

From 19 Hours of Darkness to 22 Hours of Light: A Fulbright-Schuman’s stay in Finland and Sweden

On January 9, I left a very sunny Jamaica to voluntarily fly to Helsinki, Finland. I arrived in Helsinki at -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), just in time for two feet of fresh snow to be dumped on my doorstep that night. Hailing from Philadelphia, I can manage snow, but -20 degrees and only […]

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2016-2017 U.S. Fulbright-Schuman grantees

The Fulbright Commission is pleased to announce the list of the 2016-2017 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. 4 Graduate Students, 1 […]

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2015-16 Americans in the EU

How to Have Super Powers

To everyone I have met who has asked, What is it like being a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar?, I have answered this way—it’s like having Super Powers. It’s an incredible feeling that is life changing. The Super Powers are intoxicating, and I feel these powers in my very core right now. It is everything you are while […]

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2016

Fulbright-Schuman scholar gives talk at Harvard University on EU-US energy relations

Alexandra-Maria Bocşe, Fellow on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University and Fulbright-Schuman Grantee, gave on 6 May 2016 a talk at the Belfer Library, Harvard Kennedy School on ‘The U.S. and European energy security: recent developments’. She argued that the 2014 Ukrainian crisis generated a renewed U.S. interest in European security in general and European energy […]

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2016-2017 EU Fulbright-Schuman grantees

The Fulbright Commission is pleased to announce the list of the 2016-2017 European 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. The Commission received a […]

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2016

Lithuanian promoting Lithuania in the US: “I do not believe in success, only to work”

For the first time there is a Lithuanian name on the list of the recipients of the prestigious Fulbright-Schuman scholarship. Žygimantas Juška fought two years for this scholarship. He says that he relies on the hard work, not the success for which others are waiting naively. After his law studies in Vilnius, Ž. Juška went […]

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2016

Fulbright afterthoughts

Departure is review. We sort through and pack our belongings. We flip through photographs, re-read e-mails and wonder what to write on postcards we meant to send since arrival. I have done all of the above before leaving the United States. Now it is time to reflect on the impressive people I have met during […]

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2015-16 2016 Europeans in the USA

Bringing a family on the Fulbright Schuman Program

Coming across the Atlantic with a family requires creativity, the endurance to fill out a big pile of forms, and a truckload of patience. But based on my so-far very short experience in the States, it is definitely worth it. In this blog post, I want to share a few things that our family has […]

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2015-16 Europeans in the USA

Fulbright-Schuman Experience at UT Austin

Let me start by saying that Austin is considered the world capital of Live Music… So, there is no night at beautiful Austin downtown without high quality blues, jazz, rock, etc… Just choose your preferred rhythm and you will find a pleasant bar with your type of music. You can enhance the experience by combining […]