2022 Title VIII (Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia)

The Department of State invites applications from U.S. organizations to conduct research and foreign language training on the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union. The purpose of the program is to develop and maintain American expertise in these regions. The program will support research that addresses U.S. policy interests in the region and will give highest priority to research programs that focus on current political, economic, security, democratic, or governance challenges relevant to U.S. foreign policy. The program will also support funding for U.S. graduate students to pursue advanced Russian language study and other languages of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. • Eligible research programs include those that address U.S. policy interests in the region, broadly defined. • Eligible countries for research include Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. • The program will support graduate-level and post-doctoral advanced study/research. • The program will support training in advanced Russian language and other languages of the independent states of the former Soviet Union.