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Call opens for Fulbright Grant proposals

Clara Sánchez/Translated by Caroline MacKinnon

[imagen]María Elena Méndez, coordinator of promotion and diffusion for Fulbright-García Robles grants, and Tim Wright, program coordinator in the United States, announced yesterday that on October 1 they opened the call for the 2010 grant proposals. The call will close on May 8, 2009.

Among the many disciplines that are considered, the Fulbright-García Robles offers a full grant, thanks to an alliance between the Mexico-U.S. Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS), the Motion Picture Association and Grupo de Mexicanos Exhidores en el área de Cine (including production, direction and scriptwriting) to do master’s degrees (maximum two academic years).

The grants involve an educational exchange in the United States. “They are offered under a scheme of suggested admissions. That is, the admission process to universities in the United States is carried out by COMEXUS in coordination with its partner agency, the International Institute of Education. The candidates select up to four universities of their preference and COMEXUS tries to suggest and/or replace up to three of the options that the candidate has selected in case it is necessary. The search for a partial or full tuition scholarship is a very important factor in this program. The financial help that COMEXUS offers the grant recipient will be the equivalent of that of the university that would have cost the Commission less.”

The disciplines that potential recipients can apply for grants in are: Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts: Music, Painting, Dance, Sculpture, Visual Arts, Art History, Photography, Film, Drawing and related areas. Health Administration, Library Science, International Criminology, Demographics, Law (Master’s only) in the fields of: Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Fiscal Law, Infrastructure Law (Energy, Water, Highways, Ports, etc.), Environmental Law and Indigenous Law. Business Administration (master’s degree only) in the fields of: Entrepreneurship, Health Care Management, Human Resources, Nonprofit Management, Criminal Justice Administration, Ecology, Economy, Education, North American Studies, Heritage Studies (historical archive), Architecture and Urban Planning.

Mexican applicants can enter in two categories: “regional,” which offers 15 grants and “unrestricted,” which offers 25.

For more information, please consult the web page www.comexus.org.mx or visit the offices directly in Mexico City, Berlín 18, Colonia Juárez, or call 55922-861 and 5566-9153.