[Federal Register: September 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 183)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No.: 84.021A]
Office of Postsecondary Education; Fulbright-Hays Group Projects
Abroad Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2003.
Purpose of Program: The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad
Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and
curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for
groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor.
Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development or
group research or study. This competition will not support advanced
overseas intensive language projects.
Eligible Applicants: (1) Institutions of higher education, (2)
State departments of education, (3) nonprofit private educational
organizations, and (4) consortia of these entities.
Applications Available: September 27, 2002.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: October 28, 2002.
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Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: December 27, 2002.
Estimated Available Funds: The Administration has requested
$4,415,000 for this program for FY 2003. The actual level of funding,
if any, depends on final congressional action. However, we are inviting
applications to allow enough time to complete the grant process, if
Congress appropriates funds for this program.
Estimated Range of Awards: $50,000-$70,000 per year.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $68,000 per year.
Estimated Number of Awards: 43.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 12 months.
Page Limit: The application narrative is where you, the applicant,
address the selection criteria that reviewers use to evaluate your
application. You must limit the narrative to the equivalent of no more
than 35 pages, using the following standards:
[sbull] A ``page'' is 8.5'' x 11'', on one side only, with 1''
margins at the top, bottom, and both sides. i Double space (no more
than three lines per vertical inch) all text in the application
narrative, including titles, headings, footnotes, quotations,
references, and captions. However, you may single space all text in
charts, tables, figures and graphs.
[sbull] Use a font that is either 12-point or larger or no smaller
than 10 pitch (characters per inch). However you may use a 10-point
font in charts, tables, figures, and graphs.
The page limit does not apply to the cover sheet; the budget
section, including the narrative budget justification; the assurances
and certifications; the one-page abstract or the appendices. The
complete response to the selection criterion must be included in the
application narrative.
We will reject your application if--
[sbull] You apply these standards and exceed the page limit; or
[sbull] You apply other standards and exceed the equivalent of the
page limit.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81,
82, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99; and (b) the regulations for this program in
34 CFR part 664.
Priorities
Absolute Priority: This competition focuses on projects designed to
meet the priority in the regulations for this program (34 CFR
664.32(a)(2)).
Specific geographic regions of the world: A group project funded
under this priority must focus on one or more of the following
geographic regions of the world: Africa, East Asia, South Asia,
Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere (Central and
South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), East Central Europe and
Eurasia, and the Near East.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet
the priority.
Competitive Priority: Within the absolute priority specified in
this application notice we will focus on projects that meet the
following competitive priority.
Short-term seminars that develop and improve foreign language and
area studies at elementary and secondary schools. Under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(i), 664.30(b), and 664.31(g) we award up to five (5)
points to an application, depending upon how well the application meets
the priority.
Invitational Priority: Within the absolute priority specified in
this application notice, we are particularly interested in applications
that meet the following invitational priority.
Group study projects that provide opportunities for nationally
recruited undergraduate students to study in a foreign country for
either a semester or a full academic year.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not give an application that meets
the invitational priority a competitive or absolute preference over
other applications.
For Applications and Further Information Contact: The applications
for this program are available at: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ed.gov/offices/HEP/iegps/.
Lungching Chiao, U.S. Department of Education, International Education
and Graduate Programs Service, 1990 K Street, NW, 6th Floor,
Washington, DC 20006-8521. Telephone: (202) 502-7624 or via Internet:
lungching.chiao@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the program contact person listed under For
Applications and Further Information Contact.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format by contacting that person. However,
the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the
standard forms included in the application package.
Electronic Access to This Document
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Program Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2452.
Dated: September 16, 2002.
Sally L. Stroup,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education.
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