> IREX Consortium for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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>The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) is pleased to announce
>the creation of the new IREX Consortium for the Humanities and Social
>Sciences. The Consortium, created in response to needs raised from
academics
>in the field, will strengthen institutions of higher education in Armenia,
>Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine. The Consortium is funded by the
>Carnegie Corporation of New York.
>
>Humanities and social sciences institutions are central to the foundation
of
>a strong, healthy civil society. The IREX Consortium for the Humanities
and
>Social Sciences is designed to give university and scholarly leaders in
>Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine the tools and knowledge
>needed to strengthen their institutions and build effective regional
centers
>of learning. Three synergistic program components within the Consortium
>encourage partnership and participation between scholars from the US,
Western
>and Central Europe, Turkey, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and
>Armenia.
>
>The program components are:
>
>* The Targeted Exchanges Program, geared toward individual academics,
> curriculum developers, and educational institution administrators;
>* The Small Grants for Partnership Development Program, in which
universities
> exchange information and cultivate new partnership linkages; and
>* The Information Resources and Dissemination Program, which will provide a
> forum for the creation of on-line databases and the dissemination of
> scholarly papers and new curricula over the Internet.
>
>All three programs are interrelated, and IREX encourages individuals and
>universities to apply for multiple components of the Consortium to ensure
>maximum benefit to both individuals and institutions.
>
>Applications for the Targeted Exchanges Program are now available on the
IREX
>web site <http://www.irex.org/programs/chss/> and will be due January 14,
>2000.
>
>Applications for the Small Grants for Partnership Development Program and
the
>Information Resources and Dissemination Program will be available after
>December 1999.
>
>Please see the IREX web site for more information and application due
dates.
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