Project Grant N000142112105

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $499,858 cooperative agreement to Acamedia, Z. U. of Çekya to support research and outreach activities from September 30, 2022 to September 29, 2024. The award will investigate, analyze, and publicize the Chinese Communist Party's foreign-directed propaganda, disinformation, and related interference activities. This aligns with the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) goal of informing and influencing foreign publics to...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $129,333 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to Doublethink Lab for a research project analyzing Chinese propaganda techniques regarding Xinjiang and Hong Kong. The project will use computational analysis to identify and expose how the People's Republic of China disseminates disinformation at scale, with the goal of delivering these findings between October 2021 and September 2023. The Public Diplomacy...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $643,841 cooperative agreement to Iorg LTD under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to consolidate and advance research on Mandarin-language disinformation and propaganda operating on YouTube from September 30, 2022 through March 30, 2024. The award will support efforts to identify signatures of pro-PRC actors disseminating disinformation on the platform and situate such disinformation efforts within the broader...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $1,247,590 cooperative agreement to Moonshot CVE LTD under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The two-year award will support efforts to build the capacity of foreign government officials in Indonesia to recognize and counter state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda from China. As the sub-awardee, Moonshot CVE LTD will provide training and expertise to empower officials across all levels...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $249,819 Project Grant to Acamedia, Z. U. of Çekya under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support countering disinformation through researching problematic PRC influence from September 27, 2021 through October 31, 2022. As part of the Public Diplomacy Programs, which aims to support U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and strengthening relationships with foreign publics, the grantee will conduct...

This federal Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) is supporting research to investigate the language of parasocial influence and the emergence of extremism. The lead grantee is The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, partnering with Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on this 5-year research project. The key activities under this award include...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Department of State awarded a $972,904.26 Cooperative Agreement to The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) on September 12, 2025, under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665). This award funds capacity-building initiatives to help countries develop effective regulatory frameworks that prevent the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware in alignment with international best practices. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...

The Atlantic Council of the United States, Inc. (dba Atlantic Council) will receive $295,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation to mobilize strategic responses to counter Russian efforts undermining nonproliferation norms in Eastern Europe. Under this award made through the Department of State's Global Threat Reduction program, the Atlantic Council will deliver services from October 1, 2022 through...

This Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs provided $130,000 to research the extent and nature of People's Republic of China (PRC) influence and collaboration in academic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. The grant period ran from September 30, 2021 to July 31, 2022 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. Public Diplomacy Programs aims to support U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and...