Alumni Developement Grant
Apply now for the 2012 Fulbright Alumni Development Grant to receive up to $2500 for a professional development activity in the US or the Middle East! The application is due by February 5, 2012, and the activity must take place between March 1, 2012 and September 30, 2012.
Please be aware that you must be a Fulbright alumna/us from Bahrain, Egypt, Gaza, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, West Bank, or Yemen, and you must have completed your two-year home residency requirement to be eligible for this grant. Furthermore, if your chosen professional development activity is in the US, please be aware that you must abide by the Fly-America Act when flying to the US. This means that you must fly on a US airline or on a foreign airline that is operated by a US airline during your trip across the Atlantic. Please take this into consideration when calculating your budget for your activity.
For complete grant guidelines and to access the application online, please visit the link below:
http://www.amideast.org/fulbright/alumni-information/alumni-development-grants
Calendar 2012
January 11: Moroccan Independence Day
January 16: Martin Luther King Day – U.S. Holiday
January 20: MACECE Board Meeting
February 5th or 6th: Al Mawlid An-Nabawi
February 11: Morocco Alumni Day in Marrakech, U.S. Embassy Program
February 17-18: MACECE Board Retreat- Tangier
February 20: Presidents Day – U.S. Holiday
March 11-15: Regional Fulbright U.S. Student Enrichment Seminar
March 22- 31: Director Miller travels to the U.S.
April 15-18: NEA Directors Meeting in Jordan
April 28: Morocco Alumni Day in Agadir, U.S. Embassy Program
May 1: Fête du travail – Moroccan holiday
May 10- 12: 19th Annual Moroccan Studies Symposium
May 28: Memorial Day – U.S. Holiday
June 2012: National Alumni Assembly
All Moroccan state Alumni will gather in a General Nation- wide Assembly in Rabat.
May 3-5: Maghrebi Area Studies Symposium
This year’s Symposium will gather all American grantees in Morocco in order to discuss their research findings with their Moroccan counterparts. Many significant research topics to the current Moroccan and world political, social and economic scenes will be highlighted and many interesting subjects and prospects will be debated and discussed. The American grantees will get feedback and constructive criticism and to explore better methods for their future research endeavors.
December 17th: Fulbright Day in Fes
MACECE in cooperation with the La Médiathèque Municipale de Fès organizes the Fulbright Day. The American grantees and other Moroccan Fulbright alumni will highlight their experiences to the university students in Fes. The programme will shed light on American Higher Education through the American Fulbrighter Perspective during the morning and the afternoon session will be devoted for a workshop on Writing proposals.
December 17: MFAA Annual International Conference
The Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association is organizing their 8th Annual International Conference on The Socio-Economic Challenges of the Political Reform in Morocco. The conference will take place during the day of December 17.