Award Benefits

  • Fellowship award

  • Round-trip international airfare to Central Europe

  • Living costs (room and board) for 8 weeks

  • Health and accident insurance

  • One-week academic and cultural orientation in Budapest, Hungary




Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed by the Institute of International Education, CESRI is a fellowship opportunity for U.S. graduate students in science and engineering who are seeking a quality hands-on international research experience in

Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

CESRI hopes to accomplish the following objectives:

  • Improve the expertise of the awardees as scientists and help them think and analyze on a broader, global level
  • Build individual and institutional partnerships, as well as dialogue between the scientific community in the U.S. and Central Europe.

The 2008 CESRI competition is now closed.
Applications were due February 4, 2008 for the Summer 2008 program.
There are fourteen (14) grants available for Summer 2008.


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