FY 2025 U.S. Study Abroad Engagement Grants | WHK STUDYABROAD FY25 02

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The FY 2025 U.S. Study Abroad Engagement Grants (SAEGs) opportunity, offered by the U.S. Mission to Namibia, is a small grant program meant to strengthen international academic partnerships in a very practical, capacity-building way. The central idea is to help foreign higher education institutions (in this case, institutions connected to the Namibian context) become better prepared to build partnerships with U.S. colleges and universities and, as a direct result, host more U.S. undergraduate study abroad students. While projects can touch broader exchange and partnership goals, every proposed activity has to clearly connect back to increasing the ability of foreign institutions to receive and support U.S. study abroad participants.

The program sits under the broader USA Study Abroad portfolio and is described as the foreign-focused counterpart to the IDEAS Program. Where IDEAS concentrates on building U.S. campus capacity to create and manage international exchanges, SAEGs focuses on strengthening the partner-side infrastructure abroad. Together, the two programs aim to increase both the number and the diversity of U.S. undergraduates who study abroad, while also expanding the range of destinations beyond the most common locations. The emphasis is not only on sending more students abroad, but also on widening access and creating more varied, sustainable program options through stronger institutional partnerships.

Proposed projects are expected to fall into one or both of two main activity types. The first is capacity-building or academic partnership training. This can include webinars, workshops, expert-led seminars, or other training sessions delivered in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format. These activities should target higher education administrators and related stakeholders in Namibia and/or the United States, with the purpose of improving their ability to design, negotiate, and maintain academic partnerships and exchange programs. The second activity type is partnership and study abroad program development, which is more hands-on and implementation-oriented. Examples include site visits, collaborative program design sessions, faculty or staff training, and structured group activities that help U.S. and foreign institutions move from interest to actual, workable study abroad programming.

Funding is provided as a grant with an award ceiling of $15,000, and the opportunity anticipates making one award. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 19.022 and is categorized under education. The application closing date is December 13, 2024, and the funding opportunity number is WHK STUDYABROAD FY25 02.

Eligibility is fairly broad and includes not-for-profit organizations (including think tanks and civil society or non-governmental organizations), public and private educational institutions, individuals, public international organizations, and governmental institutions. The source data also notes eligibility for nonprofits that do not have 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education) and individuals. Any organization based outside of Namibia must be able to demonstrate a real understanding of the Namibian context, which signals that proposals should be grounded in local realities, relationships, and constraints rather than being generic study abroad concepts.

In practical terms, a competitive project under this grant would likely show a clear pathway from activities (training, partnership-building, and program design support) to outcomes (stronger institutional readiness and more concrete, implementable mechanisms to host U.S. undergraduates). Successful proposals would typically make it easy to see how the work will improve administrative capacity, reduce barriers to launching exchanges, and create sustainable partnerships that lead to increased U.S. student participation in Namibia as a study abroad destination.

• The U.S. Mission to Namibia in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2025 U.S. Study Abroad Engagement Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.022.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-19.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-12-13. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Individuals.

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