Project Grant SLE20022GR0003

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees for the project "MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY FOR FUTURE TEACHERS" from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. The project aims to provide civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs within Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) federal grant program. Specifically, the funding will...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (CFDA 19.040 Public Diplomacy Programs) will fund a five-day workshop in the Philippines. The workshop will convene emerging content creators, journalists, and advocates from ASEAN member nations and Timor-Leste to advance their knowledge and skills in critical media literacy. The award period runs from September 30, 2024 to April 30, 2026, and the primary awardee is...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $192,910 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program to provide training to school librarians in New Zealand on digital literacy and countering misinformation. The purpose of the Project Grant funding is to support the librarians in developing skills to help their communities identify and counter the spread of misinformation through instruction on factors contributing to the proliferation of...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded $121,460 under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants (CFDA 19.022) federal grant program to ZG Dig-Ed Skopje, a non-profit organization, for a cooperative agreement providing a TechCamp focused on training teachers in media literacy and cybersecurity skills. The TechCamp will deliver training to teachers from across the United States from June 2023 to January 2025, with the goal of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $113,462 Project Grant to Western Michigan University, in collaboration with the Library of Michigan, to create and pilot a professional development curriculum and library programming around media literacy and news literacy for library staff serving middle schoolers. The project, funded through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313), will involve a 14-member cohort of public library staff who will co-create the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of innovative AI-powered tutoring systems to assist individuals with limited proficiency in the majority language to improve their language skills for effective information seeking in daily life. The $340,217 award to the University of Maryland, College Park will support four key research activities over a 5-year period from...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of an on-demand, research-based innovation to provide help-seeking assistance for learners in virtual and recorded training programs. The $256,000 award made under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Learningclues, LLC from January 2023 through December 2023. The company will build an engine that automatically identifies course disciplines and important learning terms from spoken...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement (Grant ID: SIN65024CA0085) to the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) on September 30, 2024. The grant, funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), will train 160 graduates of the L2D-IA program as Youth Master Trainers (YMTs) to teach digital literacy, critical thinking, and online safety. The YMTs will conduct 320 training sessions, and 100 of them...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees to strengthen Albanian democratic processes through increasing citizenry and student capacities in media and information literacy. Funded under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to provide civil society and democracy building in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, this June 14, 2021 award will support interventions for media and information literacy...