Project Grant STW20024GR0031

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,975,308 from the Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor establishes an Indo-Pacific Center in Taiwan to counter digital authoritarianism and bolster resilience to disinformation in Indo-Pacific countries. The Center will operate from September 30, 2022 through March 29, 2025. Freedom House, Inc. will deliver services under the award as a sub-awardee. The Center directly supports the goals of the Department's International Programs to...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded Iorg LTD. $100,000 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant program (CFDA 19.040) to carry out a year-long research project countering Chinese disinformation and propaganda. The project will involve scientific research, international engagement through research publication and participation in forums and networking events. The work will be performed in Taiwan from December 2021 through December 2022. The Public...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $714,286 Project Grant to an unspecified foreign entity to ensure Taiwan audiences remain favorably disposed toward the United States and advance the U.S.-Taiwan relationship through cultural programming. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the achievement of foreign policy goals through informing and influencing foreign publics, the January 22, 2021 award was to be completed by May 31,...

The Foundation For International Understanding Through Students, Inc. (Fiuts) received a $112,189 cooperative agreement award from the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs to provide summer intensive English courses for four weeks for ten defector students in South Korea. The funding supports the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which aims to inform and influence foreign publics and expand relationships between people to support U.S. foreign policy goals....

This $107,600 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, under the CFDA program "Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants," provides funding to the Foundation For Scholarly Exchange for academic advising, promotion of U.S. study, EducationUSA outreach, and Connect Your Future advising services in Taiwan from July 11, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The grant supports the awardee's delivery of advising and outreach...

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 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...

This federal Project Grant award, issued by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $146,000.00 to the National Central University in Taiwan for research on specifying the global and seasonal variations of ionospheric density and its impact on space weather effects. The research aims to enhance understanding of complex atmospheric phenomena, develop predictive models like the Taiwan...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the FPF Education And Innovation Foundation on September 30, 2024. The grant, funded under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), aims to increase the capacity of partner countries to develop, adopt, and implement legal frameworks that protect individual data privacy. The project will also focus on educating key stakeholders and enabling trusted cross-border...

This $169,966.56 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) supports a dialogue on strategy stability in the Taiwan Strait. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will facilitate this trilateral dialogue between the U.S., Australia, and Japan from September 2023 through October 2024. The dialogue will convene experts to analyze policy issues and promote mutual...