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TitleAlfa Fellowship Program
CompanyCDS International, Inc.
LocationInternational
Job CategoryPrint
Job TypeFellowship
Date Posted04/09/2009
Deadline Date12/01/2009
DescriptionThere are too few experts in the United States with direct, meaningful experience in the modern business, government, public policy, and cultural environment of the New Russia. The Alfa Fellowship Program is designed to address this problem by providing a new and exciting opportunity for professionals from the U.S. to live and work in Russia and to enable them to develop a genuine professional expertise in Russia.

Program Details
The Alfa Fellowship Program is a high-level professional development exchange program placing 10 qualified American citizens per year in work assignments at leading Russian organizations in the fields of business, economics, journalism, law, and government. Key goals of the Alfa Fellowship Program are expanding networks of American and Russian professionals, developing greater intercultural understanding, and advancing US/Russian relations.

The program includes language training, seminar programs, and extended professional experience. Fellows receive travel, free housing, monthly stipends, and insurance.

Program Highlights
Drawing upon extensive contacts throughout industry, media, government, and nonprofit institutions in Russia, the Alfa Fellowship Program works together with participants to identify suitable professional assignments at leading Russian institutions in business, media, and civil society. The Alfa Fellowship Program endeavors to secure positions that meet the interests of both the participants and host institutions. Fellows' progress is closely monitored by the Center for International Fellowships in Moscow.

In addition to individualized professional assignments, the Alfa Fellowship Program includes:
* Four-month Russian language tutoring program in the U.S.
* Four-month intensive Russian language course in Moscow
* Orientation seminar in Washington, D.C., with accommodation and roundtrip travel included
* Housing in Moscow for the duration of the program
* Monthly stipend
* Limited international health, accident, and liability insurance
* Moscow seminar program
* Three regional excursions throughout Russia and one in a neighboring countries

Application Deadline is December 1, 2009 for the 2010-2011 program year.

For more information, go to www.cdsintl.org.