Ambassador Judy Reinke hosted alumni of the State Department’s premier professional exchange program, the International Visitor Leadership Program, on February 5, 2019. Montenegrin leaders from spheres ranging from government to civil society and the media gathered to celebrate the enduring friendship between the United States and Montenegro. Our exchange program alumni are the embodiment of …
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U.S. Department of State U.S. Embassy Podgorica Notice of Funding Opportunity The Embassy of the United States in Podgorica, Montenegro, announces an open competition for past participants (“alumni”) of U.S. government-funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs to submit applications to the 2020 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF 2020). We seek proposals from teams of at …
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Ambassador Judy Reinke met with five Montenegrin educators on December 2, 2019 who had recently returned from an exchange program in the United States to learn first-hand about U.S. federal, state, and local government efforts to promote media literacy for students. Through meetings with interlocutors in Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago they explored current trends …
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Travel to the US and gain experience in technology and entrepreneurship! The US Dept. of State, along with WorldChicago, has introduced dozens of international Tech and Entrepreneurship leaders to our city’s thriving ecosystem through the Professional Fellows Program. Continuing in Spring 2020, 18 new fellows from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Montenegro will spend …
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U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro Judy Rising Reinke, together with the English Language Teachers’ Association of Montenegro (ELTAM) officially presided over the graduation of participants in a two-year Access Microscholarship Program in Rožaje on September 10. The Access Microscholarship Program is a two-year, intensive, afterschool English-language learning program for outstanding students sponsored by the U.S. Department …
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Miroslava Mima Ivanović I Fulbright Student Program Experience In 2018 I was selected as a Fulbright student to conduct research in the area of the rights of persons with disabilities on Syracuse University College of Law, Disability Law and Policy Program. I spent there three months in fantastic collaboration with my mentor Professor Arlene Kanter …
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In March 2018, as young entrepreneur and co-founder of the Wonderrkid initiative, I was selected as a fellow for the Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative ( #YTILI ), the flagship program funded by the U.S. Department of State and implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). The YTILI Fellowship Program gathers 70 young …
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Elementary School “Bozidar Vukovic Podgoricanin” hosted a celebratory event on September 21 to mark the completion of the community mural project “Painting the Way to Tolerance and Inclusion.” The project was funded by the Department of State and supported by U.S. Embassy Podgorica. At the event, school principal Ljubinka Nedic and U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer Jeff Adler …
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U.S. Embassy Podgorica has launched a photo contest on Facebook and Instagram called “Montenegrin Summer in the States.” Through the contest, we invite Summer Work Travel participants to send photos of their SWT experiences in the United States. The contest started on August 1, 2018, and the submission deadline is 12 p.m. on September 10. The contest is …
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A group of the 2017-2018 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) students from Montenegro came back home after an exciting year in the United States. We cannot wait to hear their U.S. impressions! FLEX Program provides scholarships for high school students from Europe and Eurasia to spend an academic year in the United States, living with a family and attending an American high school. Over the …
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English language summer camps rock, especially when they are part of the Access Program. As a perfect way to wrap up this year’s Access summer camp, we made some s’mores together with our Access students at Ivanova korita. It was an opportunity for students to chat in English with Public Affairs Officer Mark Weinberg and …
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We like to say that the Access Program is more than an English learning program. Last night we certainly lived up to that statement. Ambassador Uyehara welcomed a group of Access Program Podgorica students and teachers to her residence. She talked to the students about one of the most prominent aspects of the U.S. culture …
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Marija Krivokapic I Fulbright Student and Scholar Program Experiences As an assistant professor of English language and literature I received my first Fulbright stipend in 2009. I spent the fall semester at Louisiana State University in Alexandria, LA, teaching two courses: Great Authors (D. H. Lawrence and His Travel Writing) and Contemporary Native American …
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Mladen Grgić | Fulbright Student Program Experience In 2016, I was granted a Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship for a research visit to Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) at the University of California, Berkeley. My research is focused on Chinese foreign policy and its outward investments, and I chose the UC Berkeley as it …
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Dr Vladimir Leposavić | Fulbright Student Program Experience In 2014, I was selected to spend an academic year as a Fulbright Foreign Student Visiting Researcher, representing Montenegro, in the United States. My basic goal was to conduct research in international human rights; more specifically, on the international legal protection of minorities at the American …
Read More» Dr Vladimir Leposavić | Fulbright Student Program Experience In 2014, I was selected to spend an academic year as a Fulbright Foreign Student Visiting Researcher, representing Montenegro, in the United States. My basic goal was to conduct research in international human rights; more specifically, on the international legal protection of minorities at the American …
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EducationUSA Advising Center Podgorica, in cooperation with the Embassy of the United States of America in Podgorica, will host a U.S. College Fair as part of the EducationUSA Southeastern Europe Recruiting Tour on Friday, April 7, 2017, 17:00-20:00, at Hotel Hilton, Podgorica. The fair will be open to both high school students interested in undergraduate …
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United States Embassy Podgorica is now accepting applications for the Fulbright Student Program. The call is opened on March 23 and will close on June 15 2017. For more information on how to apply see the call for applications . All Fulbright grants are research only and these grants are awarded for a period of 2 semesters (9 months). …
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Adea Kalac from Rozaje, Neda Bulatovic from Podgorica, Hana Lluka from Tuzi and Ivana Buric from Bar are just several of students from Montenegro who are currently in the United States on one-year high school FLEX exchange program supported by the State Department. Together with other FLEX students from the region, this week they visited Washington …
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President’s Day is approaching and one of the ways to celebrate it was with our English language Access class in Niksic. Head of Public Affairs Section Mark Weinberg and students discussed how is President’s Day celebrated in the United States. Weinberg asked students how many U.S. presidents were there, who served the longest, etc. It …
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