The following programs offer U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture, conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars.
Core Fulbright Scholar Program
The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 470 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
Competition for Academic Year 2021/2022 opened on February 14, 2020.
Awards to United States citizens are for teaching, advanced research, and work as Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
The basic grant package includes the following:
- monthly stipend in US dollars which varies according to the type of grant and the grantee’s position.
- monthly subsistence allowance in Hungarian forints made up of monthly maintenance allowance and monthly housing allowance when housing is not provided by the host institution.
- travel and relocation allowance made up of one time round trip travel allowance reimbursing the actual cost of direct, most economical airfare; one time dependent travel allowance; one time settling-in allowance; monthly dependent allowance.
A scholar must stay for a minimum of three months. Initial recruitment and evaluation is done by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005. The closing date for applications is normally September 15, 2020, and results are announced the following spring.
Please visit www.cies.org/program/fulbright-us-scholar-program for more information and to apply this program.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Catalog of Awards for Hungary
IRS tax information on Fulbright grants received by a U.S. citizen:
www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fulbright-grants
How to Get a Fulbright Scholarship:
www.wikihow.com/Get-a-Fulbright-Scholarship
The Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program awards grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative two- to six-week projects at eligible institutions in over 140 countries worldwide.
Fulbright Intercountry Lecturing Program
The Fulbright Intercountry Lecturing Program provides US scholars while in Europe with opportunities to enrich their professional and cultural experience outside of their country of assignment.