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## ECA Grant Opportunities The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) offers a variety of grant opportunities aimed at fostering mutual understanding and promoting American diplomacy. These grants support a wide range of programs, including educational exchanges, cultural programs, and professional development initiatives. ## Explore Current ECA Grant Opportunities The Study of the U.S. Institutes Madeleine K.
Albright Young Women Leaders Program (Albright SUSIs) is an intensive academic program for foreign undergraduate students (men and women), between the ages of 18 and 25. Participants will study a designated theme while also deepening their understanding of American society, innovation, and institutions.
The Albright SUSIs should celebrate American achievements and innovations through academic sessions, coursework, and off-campus site visits that align with the designated program theme. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/02. -FY26-SUSI-Albright-NOFO-Solicitation. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www.
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03. 2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The Fulbright Specialist Program will select approximately 400 American academics and professionals to countries worldwide for two-to-six week programming in FY 2027.
Fulbright Specialists share their expertise, build and strengthen professional networks, and gain international experience through projects that support U.S. foreign policy priorities and strengthen institutional ties in education, innovation, and trade.
Specialist projects are requested by U.S. embassies and Fulbright Commissions abroad, in coordination with foreign institutions such as universities, teacher-training centers, cultural institutions, and government ministries. Specialists may include attorneys, business leaders, economists, etc., and they develop curricula, design or deliver symposia, conduct needs assessments, and consult on faculty or workforce needs.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FY-2027-FSP-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [Project Objectives, Goals, And Implementation[270 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FY-2027-FSP-POGI.
pdf)(POGI)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The Fulbright Teacher Exchanges advance American competitiveness by providing world class professional development to K-12 educators through international exchanges that allow them to learn cutting-edge educational practices and develop innovative educational programs to improve the outcomes of their students.
Through Fulbright programs, teachers prepare their students for success in fields essential to U.S. national security and economic prosperity. U.S. Fulbright Teachers travel abroad to help maintain American prominence in critical fields such as math, science, history, engineering, and AI technology. Fulbright programs help teachers prepare thousands of U.S. students with career skills in an increasingly competitive global environment.
International Fulbright Teachers travel to the United States for professional development exchanges, which develop influential leaders who value America as their preferred partner over malign influencers; pave the way for the opening of new markets for American businesses abroad; strengthen positive relations between our peoples; and foster economic development and regional stability, all while improving education outcomes for their students.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FY27-Fulbright-Teacher-Exchange-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms FLEX Global advances America’s interests by building a network of young leaders who understand and support U.S. excellence, innovation, and culture. The program forges lasting relationships between Americans and peers worldwide, develops leadership skills, and showcases the United States as a global leader in innovation, governance, and economic prosperity.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FY-2026-FLEX-Global-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [Project Objectives, Goals, And Implementation[270 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FY-2026-FLEX-Global-POGI.
pdf)(POGI)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The FY 2026 TechLeaders: Critical Emerging Technologies Program will strengthen America’s technological edge and industry dominance by promoting U.S. leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Space Technology, Biotechnology/Health Technology, Supply Chain/Cold Chain Technology, and Agricultural Technology (AgriTech).
This initiative engages approximately 60 foreign participants, ages 25-40, from Europe and Eurasia, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere through a five-week intensive placement in the United States.
Participants will collaborate with U.S.-based mentors and companies to develop actionable solutions in critical technology sectors, showcasing American expertise and innovation. The program will also feature overseas components including reciprocal exchanges and an accelerator following the second U.S.-based cohort to expand U.S. influence, inspire future STEM professionals, and foster collaboration with American businesses.
TechLeaders supports U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives by exporting American expertise and technological innovations abroad, promoting U.S.-preferred technology standards globally, bolstering economic ties, and countering the proliferation of malign competitors’ technology in the global market. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FY26-TechLeaders-NOFO. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2. 3_02. 03.
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gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2. 3_02. 03.
2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is pleased to announce an open competition for proposals to implement the FY 2026 Tech Youth program.
Tech Youth is a new three-week, U.S.-based youth exchange that will equip young innovators with essential technical, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills to lead effectively and succeed in emerging industries. Participants will gain hands-on experience through job shadowing, site visits to U.S. companies, meetings with industry leaders, and intensive coursework and hands-on training.
The program advances U.S. efforts to secure technological advantage over strategic competitors.
The program will support approximately 96 American and international participants from select countries worldwide (approximately 72 English-speaking international high school students and 24 U.S. high school students) in pre-exchange activities, the three-week U.S.-based exchange (to be conducted in summer 2027), post-exchange alumni engagement, and implementation of required capstone projects that address real-world economic and business challenges.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FY26-TechYouth-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The U.S. Creative Tech Exchange (U.S.CTX) is a new international arts exchange program that drives economic growth by connecting U.S. creative professionals and technologists with international peers working at the intersection of the arts and emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI).
The goal is to position American technology as a key driver of American innovation, economic, and cultural influence in art and technology, For the purposes of this program, “arts” refers specifically to architecture, creative coding and gaming, fashion, graphic design, music and immersive art such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR); but excludes film and television.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FY26-U.S.CTX-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The AEP aims to advances economic prosperity in the United States (Alaska), Canada, and Greenland through short-term exchange activities focused on two overarching themes: Arctic tourism development and critical minerals supply chain resilience.
The program will position the United States as a partner of choice in Arctic economic development initiatives, promote U.S. business interests, and counter adversarial influence in this strategically important region. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY-2026-Arctic-Exchange-Program-NOFO-1. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2. 3_02. 03.
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2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms Since the founding of the United States Constitution, the First Amendment has distinguished America as a global leader in protecting individual liberty—ensuring the rights to freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. First Amendment rights, especially freedom of speech, created conditions for ideas to be tested, challenged, and refined.
The enduring commitment to free speech has fueled innovation and progress in America. The FY 2026 CEE builds on America’s longstanding commitment to protected speech by preparing a new generation of leaders with the 1A skills and free-speech fluency to responsibly and effectively apply them in home organizations, communities, and institutions.
CEE cultivates leaders with a deep understanding of and commitment to the responsible exercise and protection of free speech. Through a mix of applied leadership training, professional practicums, and collaborative projects, CEE participants in the United States and Europe and Eurasia, strengthen local capacity for constructive public discourse and civic engagement.
CEE ensures that emerging leaders have the practical skills and knowledge to reduce community-level conflict, foster productive dialogue, promote knowledge sharing, and spark innovative thinking at home and abroad. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY-2026-Community-Engagement-Exchange-NOFO-1. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms This ministerial-level exchange program will engage cultural ministers or their equivalents from key foreign countries at a high-impact convening focused on showcasing U.S. leadership in cultural heritage protection and preservation; strengthening law enforcement cooperation to curb illicit financing from trafficked art and antiquities; and promoting commercial diplomacy by highlighting innovation and technological advances by U.S. companies and cultural institutions in the heritage field.
The one-to-two day convening at an iconic U.S. heritage site will include U.S. speakers from the government, private sector, other institutions and will lead to a road map for concrete future cooperation. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FY26-StewardsCH-NOFO. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2. 3_02. 03.
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2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms The Youth Ambassadors (YA) program cultivates U.S.-aligned global leaders and competitive American youth to build enduring international partnerships that serve long-term U.S. strategic goals.
Through three-week exchanges in the United States and abroad, the program connects youth and adult mentors from select countries with American culture, society, and institutions. Participants engage in skills development workshops, leadership trainings, community projects, cultural activities, and homestays with local host families.
These immersive experiences showcase American excellence and innovation while equipping participants with critical entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Upon return home, participants apply what they have learned to implement projects in their communities. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www.
state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FY26-YA-NOFO-Solicitation. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www.
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03. 2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms **Deadline: July 23, 2026** The United States has a strong tradition of hard work, entrepreneurship, and local leadership that has powered economic growth.
American communities succeed by building on what they do best — innovating, strengthening key industries, and coordinating business, workforce, and community leadership to deliver results. The Community Solutions Program invests in American and international community leaders interested in learning from proven U.S. approaches to regional economic growth.
It will engage leaders, ages 27–39, who will work alongside American partners to understand how regional industry clusters and locally driven strategies expand opportunities that benefit the American people.
During a three- to four-month exchange in the United States, approximately 50–60 participants will work directly with American counterparts on real-world economic growth initiatives across key sectors such as: culinary industries/farm-to-table; business and entrepreneurship; hospitality and tourism; technology and innovation, and others as proposed.
Placements will demonstrate how U.S. communities organize around regional industry clusters to attract talent, secure investment, grow businesses, and strengthen local economies. * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY26_CSP_NOFO. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state.
gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2. 3_02. 03.
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2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms **Deadline: July 24, 2025** Launched in 1940, the IVLP is the Department of State’s foundational professional exchange program. The IVLP advances America First national security priorities and builds long-term relationships between Americans and international leaders in government, business, academia, and other fields.
Recipients design and implement customized short-term visits to the United States for current and emerging leaders from around the world. These visits support U.S. foreign policy goals and reflect the participants’ professional interests. Eligible recipients will have expertise in foreign policy, experience in professional exchange programming, and the ability to provide tailored projects for participants from all countries.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY-2027-IVLP-NOFO.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms Deadline: August 14, 2026 The Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals strengthens the enduring U.S.-German partnership by developing the next generation of transatlantic leaders to advance shared economic and security priorities.
This program directly supports the Administration’s commitment to revitalizing Western civilization through people-to-people ties, fostering innovation, and building resilient partnerships rooted in our common heritage. Through professional development exchanges, this program strengthens the transatlantic alliance, advances U.S. economic competitiveness in critical sectors, promotes workforce development and prosperity.
The Congress-Bundestag/Bundesrat Staff Exchange (CBBSX) extends the CBYX program to U.S. Congressional and German parliamentary staffers through a short-term reciprocal exchange between the U.S. Congress and German Parliament. CBBSX strengthens ties between legislatures, enhances collaboration on shared priorities, and builds relationships that support U.S. leadership in the transatlantic partnership.
* [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY26-CBYX-NOFO.
pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [Project Objectives, Goals, And Implementation[270 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY26-CBYX-POGI.
pdf)(POGI)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www. state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/performance_monitoring_plan_mode_2.
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pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms Deadline: August 14, 2026 The FY 2027 Fulbright Scholar Program will support the exchange of approximately 970 U.S. scholars to lecture and/or conduct post-doctoral research abroad in the areas of their expertise, and approximately 1,025 visiting (non-U.S.) scholars to conduct lecture and/or conduct research in the United States in priority academic sectors and disciplines.
Scholars are selected through an open, merit-based competition under the oversight of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB). * [Notice of Funding Opportunity [618 KB]](https://www.
state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY27-Fulbright-Scholar-NOFO. pdf) (NOFO)(PDF) * [Project Objectives, Goals, And Implementation[270 KB]](https://www.
state. gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FY27-Fulbright-Scholar-POGI. pdf)(POGI)(PDF) * [ECA Performance Monitoring Plan [219 KB]](https://www.
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03. 2025-4. pdf)(PMP) (PDF) * Instructions and Mandatory Application Forms Explore ECA Grant Opportunities on Grants.
gov ## Why Apply for an ECA Grant? * Promote Cultural Exchange: ECA grants support programs that promote cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries. * Educational Advancement: Many grants focus on educational initiatives, providing opportunities for academic growth and professional development.
* Community Impact: ECA-funded programs often have a significant impact on local communities, fostering collaboration and innovation. Applying for an ECA grant is a straightforward process. Follow these steps to get started: 1.
Visit Grants. gov: Access the latest ECA grant opportunities by visiting the Grants. gov website.
2. Review Eligibility Criteria: Carefully review the eligibility criteria for each grant to ensure you meet the requirements. 3.
Prepare Your Application: Follow the detailed instructions provided for each grant opportunity to prepare your application. 4. Submit Your Application: Submit your completed application through the Grants.
gov portal by the specified deadline Explore ECA Grant Opportunities on Grants. gov ## Communications Guidance If you are an ECA recipient organization or program office please read through the ECA Communications Guidance. All ECA recipient organizations that receive 51% or more of their funding from ECA to run a program/initiative are mandated to adhere to this guidance.
Communications Guidance (PDF) Summary of Recent Changes (PDF) Updated: 07/24/2018 Checklist: Communications Guidance (PDF) Updated: 07/24/2018 Department of State and ECA Branding Guidelines and Logos
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U. S. public and non-profit organizations meeting 501(c)(3) status. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Grants is funded by United States Department of State. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.