The King Baudouin Foundation encourages you to submit the candidate of your choice for the 2006-2007 International Development Prize. Nominations must be received by February 1st, 2006 and submitted by a nominator, i.e. a person or an organisation distinct from the candidate.

The Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of the Open Society Institute, joins Central European University in announcing the Justice Initiative Fellows Program for 2006-2008. The aim of the program is to support and further develop a network of lawyers and activists working on human rights-related issues internationally. The DEADLINE for receiving applications at CEU is January 6, 2006.

The International Fellows in Philanthropy Program promotes advanced study, research, and training at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies, for a semester (four months) or a full academic year (nine months), for up to eight persons each year. Program participants are involved in studying or managing private, nonprofit, or philanthropic organizations outside the United States, or serve as government or corporate liaisons to the nonprofit sector. Positions in the program are available at Senior and Junior levels of appointment, which are described separately below. The Program also sponsors a Fellows' conference each year in a host country overseas to encourage continuing interchange among Fellows and to assist in broadening understanding of this sector at the international level. For more information please visit the website: http://www.jhu.edu/~philfellow

Funding opportunities for development researchers and research institutes in low and middle income countries Current funding opportunities relevant to researchers and research institutes working on development issues in low and middle income countries are given below. Further details of each grant or research award are available by clicking on the related link. http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/funding_opportunities/funding_news/

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is an international not-for-profit organization working to advance education, research, and mutual understanding across the United States and the nations of Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Southeast Europe. Its mission is to foster democratic development and civil societies by advancing education and research, cultivating leadership, and empowering individuals and institutions through learning. With a staff of over 450 professionals, American Councils designs, implements, and supports innovative programs in education, community outreach, and scholarly research. Web-site: www.americancouncils.org/home.asp?PageID=1

The scholarship programme at ECAS office in Brussels continues into 2005. There are still places available for NGO leaders from Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Croatia, Belarus and Ukraine.

A series of funding opportunities relevant to researchers and research institutes working on development issues in low and middle income countries can be found at: www.gdnet.org/online_services/funding_opportunities/funding_news/ Location: Developing Countries. Deadline: Various.

A press-conference devoted to the project will start on 9 March 2005 at 2 p.m, at the National press centre (Octiabrskaya 5). Mr. Bernhard Bogensperger, Project Manager of the EC Delegation to Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Mr. Ilija Todorovic, UNHCR Representative in Belarus, Deputy Ministers of Internal Affairs and the State Committee of the Border Troops will take part in the press-conference. It will be followed by the first meeting of the Advisory Board of the project.

Mr. Slizhevsky Oleg Leanidovich has been appointed a Head of the NGO Department at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus.

Read about summer job opportunities in USA at www.ymcaiccp.org.

The Kennan Institute offers Short-term Grants to scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic states), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., area.

For more infoprmation: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/ihrd

The ForeignAID.com Donor Directory Online features over 600 international grantmakers in the U.S., Europe and abroad-available to you at: http://www.foreignaid.com/foundations_db

Small Grants Programme, Social Development Department, World Bank; International Youth Foundation. For more information please see http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CSO/Resources/GuidetoResources2003.pdf

The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world (www.globalfundforwomen.org/3grant/meena).

The Master's in Public Policy (M.P.P.) program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is designed to meet the needs of rising leaders in the public service professions, including domestic and international government agencies and nonprofit organizations...(www.wws.princeton.edu/degree/mpp.html)

The Ambassador Scholarship carries a maximum award of $10,890 per year to be applied towards tuition. All new international undergraduate students may apply for the Ambassador Scholarship… (www.mtu.edu/cie/is/scholarships/ambassador.html).

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian Democracy, and supports and encourages European unification, international understanding, and development-policy cooperation (www.kas.de).

The Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) supports extramural research to control and prevent diseases caused by virtually all human infectious agents except HIV. DMID supports a wide variety of projects spanning the spectrum from basic biomedical research, such as studies of microbial physiology and antigenic structure; through applied research, including developing diagnostic tests, experimental drugs and vaccines; to clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of new disease prevention strategies (www.niaid.nih.gov/cgi-shl/dmid/contact.cfm).

Research fellowships are offered on an international competitive basis. Scholars from developing countries (excluding Egypt, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Turkey, India and the PR of China) may apply. There are no quotas in respect of either country or academic discipline. However, since fellowships are designed to promote the transfer of knowledge and methods and to contribute to further development in fellows' home-countries, they are focussed on humanities and social sicences, political science and economics, projects in the public health sector and in the fields of agriculture, forestry and geosciences, and interdisciplinary projects relating to environmental and resource protection. Up to approx. 50 research fellowships are available per annum (www.avh.de/en/programme/stip_aus/gf_01.htm).

A warm welcome to the "Journalisten International" program at the Freie Universitaet Berlin

"Journalisten International" (formerly "Journalisten aus Russland") is open to young professionals from Belarus, Russia, and the Ukraine. The program provides an opportunity to study for 3 month at the Journalisten-Kolleg of the Freier Universitaet Berlin. For more information please visit http://jil.fu-berlin.de.

Volunteer links

www.ungdomsstyrelsen.se — page about youth programmes included EVS, both in Swedish and English. www.volunteerforum.se  — a new volunteer link. There is even no need to register to post in the forum.

"Central and East European legal, political, business and economics resources. CEESource focuses on www links from government, academic, NGO, and news agency sources."  http://law.gonzaga.edu/library/ceeurope.htm

Links to International Relations Graduate School programs around the world

American Center for Educationa and Research provides citizens of the CIS region with the opportunity to pursue graduate study at the master's level in the United States.www.amcenter.by