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- Borlaug Program
The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program aims to promote food security and economic growth by increasing scientific knowledge and collaborative research to improve agricultural productivity. It accomplishes this by:
- Providing research opportunities for early and mid-career academics, researchers, and policymakers from developing and middle-income countries;
- Fostering collaborative research to improve agricultural productivity;
- Facilitating the transfer of new science and agricultural technologies to strengthen agricultural practices
- Addressing obstacles to the adoption of technology, such as ineffectual policies and regulations.
The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service: fas.usda.gov.
Priority Research Areas: Areas of training and research can be in any agriculture-related field including plant pathology, entomology, veterinary sciences, microbiology, agricultural economics, food safety, sanitary and phytosanitary topics, natural resources management, agricultural biotechnology, global climate change, and agricultural policy. Allowable training topics vary by country and year and can be found in the country-specific application announcements posted on the website.
Training Venues: Training venues include U.S. universities, the U.S. Department of Agriculture or other U.S. government agency research facilities, and not-for-profit institutions.
Duration of Program: Fellowships can run from six to twelve weeks depending on research topic and funding available.
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- Cochran Fellowship Program
The Cochran Fellowship program provides high quality training to help middle-income countries, emerging markets, and emerging democracies improve their agricultural systems and strengthen and enhance trade links with the United States.
The program provides U.S.-based agricultural training opportunities for agriculturalists from middle-income countries, emerging markets and emerging democracies.
Priority Areas: Training opportunities are for agricultural professionals, including senior and mid-level specialists and administrators working in agricultural trade and policy, agribusiness development, management, animal, plant, and food sciences, extension services, agricultural marketing, and many other areas. Since its inception in 1984, the Cochran Fellowship Program has provided U.S.-based training for over 14,300 international participants from 123 countries worldwide. Approximately 30 Egyptians will participate in the Cochran Fellowship program in 2016.
Training Venues: State universities, with field visits to farms and ranches.
Duration of Program: 2-3 weeks in the United States.
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- Community Solutions
The Community Solutions Program is a professional development program for the best and brightest global community leaders working in the fields of transparency and accountability, tolerance and conflict resolution, environmental issues and women’s issues. Community Solutions provides four-month-long fellowships at U.S. community-based non-profit or other organizations, government offices or legislative bodies. Fellows will work with community leaders to enhance their practical expertise, leadership skills and professional contacts to address societal issues in their home communities.
Eligibility: Community leaders, ages 25-38, currently working on a community engagement initiative in Egypt.
Duration of Program: Four months
For More information: irex.org/application/community-solutions-information-applicants
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- Fortune/State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Program
Fortune, a leading American business magazine and the U.S Department of State established the Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership in May 2006. This public-private partnership places talented, emerging women leaders from all over the world in mentoring programs with some of the women identified by Fortune as America’s Most Powerful Women Leaders. The program includes a three-day orientation in Washington, D.C., where the participants meet with senior women in government, academia and business. The international participants are then paired with one of the women leaders for an approximately three-week mentorship assignment in cities across the United States. During the three weeks, American and international participants work together in mentoring relationships to share the skills and experiences necessary for strengthening women’s leadership. Each participant will have the opportunity to shadow a senior executive and engage in activities specifically designed by the company to meet the needs and interests of the participant.
Eligibility: Emerging self-motivated women leaders in the business and non-profit sectors, between the ages of 28 – 43 with good English language skills.
Duration of Program: Four weeks
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- Global Sports Mentoring Program
The U.S. Department of State and espnW Global Sports Mentoring Program is the flagship component of the Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative that pairs emerging women leaders from around the world with top American female executives in the sports industry.
Eligibility: Emerging women leaders in the sports world, between the ages of 25 and 40
Duration of Program: Four weeks
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- Iowa International Writer’s Workshop
This summer program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, is a globally-renowned ten-week residency program at the University of Iowa for international writers who participate in activities in the fields of writing, translation, and the arts.
Eligibility: The program is designed for established and emerging creative writers, poets, dramatists, and nonfiction writers.
Duration of Program: Three months
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Eligibility: professionals between the age 25 to 40
Duration of Program: 4 weeks
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- TechWomen
The TechWomen initiative identifies emerging women leaders with expertise in technology to attend a five-week program that includes project-based mentorships at leading companies in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Eligibility: Women in professional careers that require significant knowledge of, and skill in technology. “Technology” should be interpreted broadly to include – but not be limited to – the fields of science, education, and business.
Duration of Program: Five weeks
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