Cooperation EU-USA
The European Union and the United States of America have signed on 21/6/2006 at the EU-US Summit in Vienna a new agreement on higher education and vocational training for another eight-year period (2006-2013). The new agreement renews and reinforces the long standing EU-US cooperation programme that was established in 1995. The programme is funded and managed jointly by the European Commission and by the US Department of Education. It aims primarily at promoting understanding between the peoples of the European Union and the United States of America and improving the quality of their human resource development. To achieve these objectives, the new programme will support the following main Actions
- Transatlantic Degree action providing support to multilateral partnerships of EU and US institutions for the purpose of setting up joint study programmes – including joint/double degrees – and transatlantic mobility of students and faculty;
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- Excellence Mobility Projects, providing follow-up financial support for student mobility to joint consortia that have a proven track record of excellence in transatlantic cooperation;
- Policy-oriented measures, addressing comparative higher education and vocational training issues, and promoting dialogue on recognition of qualifications and accreditations;
- Schuman-Fulbright action providing scholarships to highly qualified professionals for undertaking studies or training on the opposite side of the Atlantic, in areas of specific relevance to the EU/US relations. The details of the Schuman-Fulbright action will be developed as a cooperation between the European Commission and the US Department of State.
The Fulbright-EU Programme
“Overall, being a Fulbright scholar was a great and enriching experience and offered excellent opportunities both from an academic and a personal perspective”
Mrs Sarah Grattan, Researcher at the European University Institute.
The EU-US Cooperation Programme in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training jointly supports a specific EU section of the Fulbright Grant Scheme. This scheme provides support for either a one-semester period or a full academic year of research or lecturing on EU affairs or EU-US relations at an accredited institution in the EU or US.
Around 65,000 per annum are allocated to the EU-Fulbright programme with the US contributing with an amount of 130,000 $ a year. Community money is used to provide grants to individual EU and US academics to lecture or conduct research on the European Union in US and EU universities.
The scheme is administered by the Commission of Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg. The selection of candidates is conducted in consultation with the services of the European Commission. Typically 5 or 6 EU citizens receive grants to travel to the US every year with an equivalent number of US individuals being subsidised to come to the EU.
For more information please consult the EU/Fulbright Program website.
Selected grantees:
For more information on the programs developed until now, please visit:
