Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program & Fulbright Brazil Program Launch Cooperative Effort; Year of Study in U.S. to Enhance Intellectual Exposure, Networking Potential
5/4/2005 10:00:00 AM
To: National Desk
Contact: Adriana Thoen of the International Fellowships Fund, 212-984-5558 or ATHOEN-fordifp@iie.org
NEW YORK, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) and the Brazil-United States Fulbright scholarship program are proud to announce a new "Cooperative Initiative" to offer selected Brazilian IFP Fellows the opportunity to study for one year in the United States with Fulbright program support while pursuing doctoral studies in Brazil sponsored by IFP.
The initiative aims to help improve diversity in the Brazil Fulbright Program, so that it can support candidates from groups that have traditionally lacked access to higher education. It will also enhance the intellectual exposure and expand the networking potential for Brazilian IFP Fellows who choose to study in their home country and build a new generation of Brazilian social justice leaders with a deeper knowledge of the United States.
"This collaboration will help the Fulbright program reach out to more of Brazil's very diverse groups," said Luiz Valcov Loureiro, executive director of the Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States of America and Brazil, which oversees the Fulbright Program in Brazil. "We believe that improving educational access as broadly as possible will help promote greater social justice and democratic development in our society."
Approximately six Brazilian Ph.D. students are expected to study in the United States each year under the new arrangement. The Commission will support up to nine months of a doctoral research program at a U.S. institution for the selected IFP Fellows. The Commission will also offer these Fellows up to six months of English language training in the U.S. before they begin their U.S. doctoral research.
"IFP Fellows in Brazil come from many of the country's most remote and least developed areas," noted Joan Dassin, executive director of the International Fellowships Fund and former Ford Foundation representative in Brazil. "They will carry home from their studies new techniques and new contacts to help them address the most serious challenges facing their communities."
The Brazil Fulbright program was launched in 1957. It is managed by a board of seven Brazilians and seven Americans living in Brazil. Through 47 years, it has sponsored thousands of Brazilians and Americans to study in each other's countries, learn about new cultures, and to increase awareness of the diversity of ideas, values, world views and ways of life between the two countries.
IFP began in Brazil in 2002. It is administered by the Carlos Chagas Foundation in Sao Paulo, one of the 15 "International Partners" worldwide that IFP relies on to ensure that this global program reflects local realities and needs. In Brazil, extensive outreach is undertaken to find candidates who identify themselves as Black or Indigenous, who were born Brazil's less-developed north, northeast or central-western regions, and who are from a family with few economic and educational opportunities. On an individual basis, Brazilian IFP candidates are evaluated by independent external selection committees that assess academic and leadership potential, social and community commitment, and academic and research goals.
"We are very pleased to be working with both IFP and the Brazil Fulbright Program to expand the international experience of highly capable and committed Brazilians who will be among our country's next generation of leaders," said Fulvia Rosemberg, director of the Carlos Chagas Foundation. "We must understand the best learning from the entire world to most effectively address our challenges at home."
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The Fulbright Program
The flagship international educational program sponsored by the United States Government, the Fulbright Program is designed to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." With this goal, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 250,000 participants worldwide - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to study and teach in each other's countries, exchange ideas, and develop joint solutions to address shared concerns. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright Program awards approximately 4,500 new grants annually. Fulbright Alumni include Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, governors and senators, ambassadors and artists, prime ministers and heads of state, professors and scientists, Supreme Court Justices, and CEOs. For more information, please visit, http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright.
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
IFP seeks to build a new generation of social justice leaders worldwide. Fellows chosen through IFP are from groups that have traditionally lacked access to higher education. IFP was launched in 2000 and, by 2010 the program will select more than 3,300 fellows from 22 countries and territories. IFP Fellows may enroll in master and doctoral programs, as well as professional programs, in any country in the world, including their own. The IFP is administered by the International Fellowships Fund, an independently incorporated organization based in New York City, with funds provided by the Ford Foundation. IFF carries out IFP activities through institutional grants to local partner organizations that operate with IFF oversight. For more information, please visit http://www.FordIFP.Net.
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