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Homepage - Critical Language Scholarship Program Critical Language Scholarship Program | Homepage A Program of the U.S. Department of State A Program of the U.S. Department of State Language Levels and Prerequisites Participation Requirements Alumni Resource Directory Sign-Up and Update Your CLS Advisor Account Announcing the 2026 CLS Program Awards CLS Scholar Highlight: Addison Miller CLS Scholar Highlight: Sam Bowden Learn more about CLS Spark.
The deadline for applications is May 26, 2022. The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is happy to introduce CLS Spark , a new initiative of the U.S. Department of State providing American students the access and opportunity to start their language learning journeys even when these critical languages may not be offered on their campuses or when they may have responsibilities that limit their ability to go overseas.
Participants will spend an academic year learning either Arabic, Chinese or Russian through online classes and activities facilitated by native speakers at a host institution abroad. The CLS Program provides immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security and economic prosperity.
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education . The CLS Program provides immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security and economic prosperity.
Participants receive the equivalent of one year of language study in eight weeks, through intensive language instruction and cultural activities that reinforce both language learning and intercultural competence. Since 2006, the CLS Program has supported over 10,000 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. CLS alumni represent all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
What Alumni Say About the CLS Program The CLS Program provides its scholars intensive language and cultural instruction in an environment designed to maximize their language gains at every level. Alumni apply their critical language skills in a variety of professional fields in public and private sectors as well as government, helping to support America’s competitiveness across the board.
CLS scholars represent the breadth of the United States. Through personal engagement they help to spread American values and develop mutual understanding with the people of other countries. See the full list of languages offered by the CLS Program Announcing the 2026 CLS Program Awards Congratulations to the approximately 315 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students selected for the 2026 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program!
We commend all applicants for their commitment to critical language study and congratulate the finalists and alternates selected from an exceptionally… CLS Scholar Highlight: Addison Miller Addison Miller, a 2024 CLS Chinese Program participant in New Taipei City, Taiwan, leveraged her experience to shape her path toward a career in international and comparative education.
Her CLS experience played a pivotal role in connecting her academic interests with real-world experience. In 2026… CLS Scholar Highlight: Sam Bowden Sam Bowden, a 2024 CLS Russian Program participant in Tbilisi, Georgia, leveraged his personal and academic interests in Russian language, literature, and geopolitics to build meaningful international connections and launch a career in foreign policy.
His experiences with CLS helped bridge the gap … Beyond the Lab: The Value of Studying Abroad for STEM Students Alex Graber is a Biology major at Vassar College in New York. Alex participated in the 2025 CLS Japanese Program hosted by Okayama University in Okayama, Japan. This past summer, I participated in the CLS program at Okayama University in Okayama, Japan.
I am currently an undergraduate student at V… Meet the Winners of the 2026 Premier Awards, UA’s Top Honors The annual Premier Awards honor members of the UA community who exemplify the highest standards of scholarship, service, leadership and character. Six students, two faculty members and a student club received the University’s top honors.
Shared from The University of Alabama News Center, February 25, 2026 Where Language Leads: The Ongoing Journey of WKU Alum Olivia Blackmon For Olivia Blackmon, studying Modern Languages at WKU didn’t just enrich her worldview—it opened unexpected doors and shaped every step of her professional journey.
Shared from Western Kentucky University, January 22, 2026 Alumnus Lucas San Miguel to study global affairs as Schwarzman Scholar Lucas San Miguel is Emory’s 12th Schwarzman Scholar. Shown during his time as a Robert T. Jones Scholar at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, he will now spend a year in China pursuing a master’s degree in global affairs.
Shared from Emory University News Center, January 15, 2026 The Critical Language Scholarship Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State , with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education .
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Panama’s universities have become an increasingly important arena for strategic competition. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expanded its influence through Confucius Institutes, academic exchanges, research partnerships, scholarships, and sustained engagement with students, faculty, and university leadership. These influence operations foster distrust of the United States and promote CCP narratives at a critical time in the U.S.-Panama relationship. Embassy Panama seeks to expand the U.S. presence on university campuses by creating sustained opportunities for students, faculty, administrators, and researchers to engage directly with American institutions, experts, companies, and exchange alumni. Through English-language programming, AI and emerging technology workshops, entrepreneurship initiatives, visiting speakers, research collaborations, and public discussions on academic freedom and research integrity, the program will demonstrate the advantages of partnering with the United States while providing a credible alternative to CCP-sponsored programming. Working alongside EducationUSA, American Spaces, the Regional English Language Office, and existing Embassy initiatives, the project will complement existing exchange and advising programs by focusing on institutional engagement and public diplomacy. The Embassy seeks a year-long initiative that establishes enduring U.S.-Panama academic partnerships, expands American visibility across Panamanian campuses, and directly advances U.S. efforts to counter CCP influence in higher education. Funding Opportunity Number: PDS-PAN-FY26-01. Assistance Listing: 19.040. Funding Instrument: G. Category: RD. Award Amount: $25K – $150K per award.
The U.S. Department of State’s Embassy Panama announces an open competition to design and implement a program to strengthen Panamanian journalists’ English language proficiency, applied AI skills, and digital media literacy in order to counter disinformation and advance a more informed public discourse.Panama’s media environment faces growing challenges from disinformation and external influence campaigns that threaten reliable public discourse. This one-year program combines advanced English language instruction with applied artificial intelligence (AI) training and digital media literacy skills, enabling participants to access credible English-language sources, evaluate information critically, and use emerging technologies responsibly in their reporting.By the program’s end, participants will demonstrate improved English proficiency and enhanced digital literacy, enabling them to engage with U.S. expertise and global media resources. They will also apply these skills to identify manipulated media, AI-generated content, and disinformation, and to use fact-checking and verification techniques, effectively strengthening their credibility as trusted, reliable messengers for their communities.This initiative directly advances U.S. foreign policy priorities by countering anti-American propaganda and building resilience against digital disinformation threats, fostering a more informed public discourse in Panama and reinforcing trust in credible, fact-based reporting aligned with U.S. interests in the region. Funding Opportunity Number: PDS-PAN-FY26-02. Assistance Listing: 19.040. Funding Instrument: G. Category: RD. Award Amount: $25K – $120K per award.
Generative AI for smarter CCAM: enhancing perception, decision-making, and validation (CCAM Partnership) is sponsored by European Commission — Horizon Europe. Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Availability and integration of advanced, trustworthy, energy-efficient perception systems, exploiting technological advancements of Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance situational awareness and support safe decision-making; Enhanced Vulnerable Road User (VRU) safety, based on elevated, more temper-proof perception and understanding of their behaviour and intention predictions; Enhanced robustness of CCAM systems - both on-board and on the infrastructure side - in critical situations due to their training, virtual testing and validation in scenarios generated by GenAI, complementing existing scenario databases for the testing and validation of CCAM systems; Enhanced understanding of the relevance and limitations of using GenAI for CCAM; Tools and harmonised approaches for the use of GenAI in mobility technology development, training and validation, as well as for systemic applications such as traffic management and remote control, integrating them into existing approaches. Scope: Pilots and demonstrations using Level 3 and 4 vehicle services face major challenges in perception and decision making, highlighting the necessity for low-latency solutions that enhance responsiveness and situational awareness in real-time operating conditions. This is especially relevant for driving in more complex environments like urban areas, where environmental variance is higher and where new scenarios can be regularly encountered. Furthermore, there is the need to limit the latency, bandwidth and energy use for on-board calculations, as well as the need to enhance the security, privacy and reliability (e.g. scene understanding and prediction of near-future scenario development). For rapid decision-making in interactions with VRUs, this is essential for implementing CCAM-enabled solutions and ensuring scalability. At the same time, developments of sector-agnostic technologies show advancements -such as GenAI- that can be beneficial for CCAM. First exploratory steps can be expected from a project funded under HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01-02 [1] regarding the potential in the virtual generation of edge cases, which could be used for the development, training, virtual testing and validation of CCAM systems. Further advancements in GenAI applications specifically for the CCAM domain need to be developed, trained and validated [2] . Thus, proposed actions shall include approaches to exploit further technological advancements for CCAM. Major steps are needed to advance to highly advanced, ultra-safe, trustworthy and energy efficient real-time perception and decision-making systems for automated vehicles, specifically focusing on scalable solutions and the exploitation of GenAI. These advancements should leverage low latency systems or distributed computing resources to facilitate real-time processing, thereby improving system responsiveness and safety. This topic will thus contribute to the AI Continent Action Plan [3] by fostering AI development and adoption in the automotive sector. Proposed actions are expected to address all the following aspects: Development of tools and approaches for robust environment perception and decision making (at the edge, on-board, at infrastructure or back-office). These approaches shall aim at accelerating and advancing the reasoning of decision making, increasing the level of efficiency, (cyber)-security and reliability of the applications, with path planning as initial use case. This is to support amongst others the perception of VRUs, the prediction of their behaviour and their intentions, and includes data sharing approaches for CCAM solutions to create a larger time window for actions in near accident scenarios. The use of advanced GenAI, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs) or Vision Language Action (VLAs) can significantly enhance these capabilities by leveraging their advanced contextual Programme areas: Horizon Europe (HORIZON), Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Climate, Energy and Mobility, Industrial Competitiveness in Transport, Clean, Safe and Accessible Transport and Mobility, Smart Mobility
Kresge Foundation's first-ever Cultural Heritage round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus opens $1.25M for 10-15 community-led projects across Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park — and the program's fiscal-sponsor provision, two-year project window, and explicit equal treatment of physical and nonphysical projects mark a meaningful departure from the program's first decade.
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