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Get ready: the 2017 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund begins on March 2! Current and past exchange program participants are invited to compete to win up to $25,000 in support of their public service projects!

Does your project have what it takes to win? #AEIF2017

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The U.S. Department of State and RocketHub have teamed up in a pilot partnership to help alumni find alternative funding for their innovative solutions. This new initiative, called “AEIF 2.0”, is focused on accelerating projects from the Department’s Alumni Engagement and Innovation Fund (AEIF).  

AEIF awards grants to alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs enabling them to create solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges. Funds are limited, however, providing for just 53 of nearly 700 projects submitted last year.

The new partnership will create investment options outside of USG support and provide visibility, support sustainability, and accelerate the social impact of exceptional alumni who have demonstrated proof of concept with past projects. Alumni can also leverage RocketHub’s educational tools to maximize their projects’ potential, tell their stories, build the capacity of their organizations, engage local communities and develop sustainable solutions.

Through the annual AEIF competition, the U.S. Department of State has supported more than 150 alumni initiatives in over 80 countries that promote shared values and innovative solutions to global challenges. 

The Youth Ambassadors Institute, recipient of the European Union Youth Award is pleased to announce the second edition of the Peace Building in Eastern Europe conference in Chişinău, Moldova and Kiev, Ukraine this Fall!

From October 5-12, 2014 an international U.S. Exchange Alumni team, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Chişinău and other partners will organize “Peace building in Eastern Europe 2.0”, a 7 day conference designed to empower an Alumni Network of youth diplomats working to understand frozen conflicts and combat misinformation in times of political turmoil in Eastern Europe.

The seminar will consist of lectures, workshops, debate sessions and field trips to Gagauz-Yeri, Transnistria (MD) and Kiev (UA).

This the link to the application form.

El pasado 11 de abril el Embassy Youth Council cumplió un año. Lo celebramos reuniéndonos de nuevo en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Madrid, mirando atrás para evaluar el trabajo de 2013 y proponiendo un montón de nuevas ideas para 2014. Entre ellos, el que os presentamos hoy: Connecting Young Leaders.

Connecting Young Leaders es un proyecto que propone conectar a cinco jóvenes líderes españoles con sus homólogos estadounidenses. ¿Un emprendedor o emprendedora líder de menos de 35 años en Estados Unidos? Busquemos al joven español del mismo perfil y conectémoslos en un coloquio en el que nos cuenten sus proyectos. Y así con varios campos, de ciencia a deporte pasando por artes, cultura o periodismo.

Los encuentros, en los que colaboraremos con universidades y otros organismos públicos y privados, serán moderados por el equipo del EYC y retransmitidos vía streaming. El objetivo final es visibilizar la importancia de la juventud en la construcción de nuestra sociedad y empoderar a los jóvenes, además de promover los valores de la innovación, el emprendimiento y el liderazgo. También de visibilizar a las líderes mujeres.

Hemos presentado el proyecto a la competición de la red internacional de Alumni de Estados Unidos (una red para los participantes en programas del Departamento de Estado), que ofrece hasta 25.000 dólares de financiación a las ideas más innovadoras. La competición se hace en dos fases y hacia mediados de mayo podremos decir si hemos pasado la primera.

¡Esperamos poder daros buenas noticias pronto!

Hasta entonces, si tenéis sugerencias sobre qué jóvenes, tanto españoles como estadounidenses, podrían participar como ponentes o queréis sugerirnos un lugar para organizar una de las charlas, no dudéis en dejarnos un correo aquí o en nuestra página de Facebook.

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The spanish Embassy Youth Council is one year old! We celebrated it last Friday 11th with a reunion in the US Embassy of Madrid. We looked back, saw what we had done during 2013 and, what's more important, discussed new ideas for 2014.

One of them was Connecting Young Leaders.We want to organize 5 meetings between young Spanish and American leaders in different fields, from business to sport, arts, media, culture or science, as well as making women leaders more visible. To organize them, we will collaborate with public and private entities - and all the meetings will be broadcasted live via video streaming and shared in the Youtube channel of the EYC and the U.S. Embassy in Spain.

We're presenting the project to AIEF competition! The Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund is a competition between international US Alumni in which the most innovative ideas can get up to $25,000 to be real. The competition takes place in two phases so by the middle of May we will know if we have passed the first one.

We hope we can give you good news soon!

In the meantime, if you have any suggestions of people we should connect or places you'd like us to organize a talk, just let us know here or in our Facebook page.

The 2014 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund has launched! This year, you, the current and past participants of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs, can compete to win up to $25,000 to support your innovative idea! The competition takes place in two phases.

Raising awareness of the importance of the empowerment of the youth in the construction of better societies. • Analyzing the shared challenges of the Spanish and American societies and identifying good practices for solving similar social problems, focusing in particular on youth unemployment (56,1% Ref. Spanish Government). • Defending the values of innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership for creating more competitive societies and reducing unemployment. • Making female young leaders more visible.