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THE HUBERT H. HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.

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Application Deadline: 15 October, 2023

LOCATION: USA

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program enhances leadership among international professionals who collaborate to address local and global challenges and foster change for our collective good.  The Humphrey Fellowship Program is a Fulbright exchange activity funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Institute of International Education. 

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible for a Humphrey Fellowship Program, applicants must:

Be a citizen of an eligible country

The Humphrey Fellowship Program is a non-degree program. Participants may complete academic coursework at their host university to update their academic and professional knowledge in their filed, but they do not receive an academic degree as a result of their participation in the program.

Application deadline vary by country. The nominating U.S Embassy or Binational Fullbright Commission will advice on its internal deadline for receiving applications. U.S Embassies and Commissions must submit their nominations to the Institute of International Education in Washington D.C by early October.

BENEFIT:

Payment of tuition and fees at the assigned host university 

Pre-academic English language training, if required

A maintenance (living) allowance, including a one-time settling-in allowance

Accident and sickness coverage 

A book allowance

A one-time computer subsidy

Air travel (international travel to and from the U.S. for the Program and domestic travel to required program events)

A Professional Development allowance for professional activities, such as field trips, professional visits, and conferences

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INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATED ALBUM COMPETITION INSULAR LIBRARY OF GRAN CANARIA

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Application Deadline: 16 December 2023

LOCATION: Spain

The participation in the “Illustrated Album International Contest of the Insular Library of Gran Canaria” is open to all writers and il-lustrators,
with legal age, that regardless of their place of origin or residence, submit a production in Spanish.

ELIGIBILITY:

All persons, writers and illustrators of legal age who, without distinction of their place of origin or residence, present a work in the Spanish language, will be eligible for the International Contest for the “Illustrated Album of the Gran Canaria Island Library”. The staff of the publishing house “A Buen Paso” (hereinafter ABP) and the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria (hereinafter CGC) are excluded. The winners of the previous edition will not be eligible for the prize of the next two editions.

BENEFIT:

A prize of 11,000 euros for the winner of the only prize, to which writers or illustrators who, without a place of origin or residence, wish to present themselves with an unpublished book album in Spanish, based on an original narrative and visual conception, composed of text and images or exclusively of images.

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