Opportunity Information: Apply for SFOP0009497
The FY 2023 BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program is a U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) funding opportunity that seeks one partner organization to administer a scholarship-based J-1 exchange program for Ukrainian academics who are currently living in Ukraine. Run through ECA's Office of Private Sector Exchange (BridgeUSA), the competition is designed to support professional and academic engagement with U.S. institutions while accounting for the ongoing disruptions caused by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The award will be made as a cooperative agreement, meaning the recipient will implement the program in close coordination with BridgeUSA rather than operating fully independently.
The selected recipient is expected to provide between 30 and 45 scholarships for Ukrainian academic participants. These scholarships are intended to remove the core financial barriers to participation by covering BridgeUSA program fees, required healthcare benefits coverage, visa fees, SEVIS fees, and international airfare. The program is planned to operate over a 36-month implementation period, which typically implies multiple participant cohorts, staggered arrivals, or extended placement support and oversight across several academic cycles.
The program focuses specifically on three eligible J-1 Exchange Visitor categories: Professor, Research Scholar, and Short-Term Scholar. Participants may come from a range of academic and applied disciplines, with the opportunity explicitly highlighting fields viewed as especially relevant to Ukraine's current and future needs: Agricultural Technology, Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, Engineering, Information Technology, Mental Health, Pedagogy, and Urban Planning. Strong proposals are expected to show they can place scholars across a wide variety of these eligible fields rather than concentrating placements in only one or two areas, which signals that the administrator should have broad U.S. institutional networks and the capacity to match scholars to appropriate hosts.
A notable feature of this opportunity is its emphasis on flexibility given wartime constraints and the difficulty many academics may face if required to remain outside Ukraine for long periods. The notice indicates that, for eligible J-1 categories, the awardee may be able to use SEVIS "Out of Country" functionality to allow continued program participation from within Ukraine when appropriate. In practice, this suggests BridgeUSA is looking for an administrator capable of handling complex compliance and monitoring requirements while adapting program operations to participants' safety, mobility limitations, and evolving conditions on the ground.
Eligibility to apply is limited to U.S. entities with the organizational infrastructure to administer an exchange program at this scale. Applicants may be accredited U.S. colleges and universities (including community colleges), consortia of accredited U.S. colleges and universities, or U.S. public or private nonprofit organizations that meet 26 USC 501(c)(3) requirements. Each eligible applicant may submit only one proposal. The opportunity lists an anticipated single award, with an award ceiling of $500,000, under CFDA number 19.451. The funding opportunity number is SFOP0009497, and it was posted March 8, 2023 with an original application deadline of May 15, 2023.
Overall, this grant competition is aimed at identifying one capable U.S. program administrator that can recruit and select Ukrainian academic fellows from inside Ukraine, arrange compliant J-1 participation under the specified categories, place fellows with suitable U.S. hosts across the eligible fields, and manage all required logistics and support costs covered by the scholarship package. The program's structure and the inclusion of out-of-country participation options reflect a central goal: maintaining academic exchange and collaboration even when conventional long-term mobility is difficult or unsafe.Apply for SFOP0009497
- The Department of State, Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2023 BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.451.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 08, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 15, 2023. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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