Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

(3) Workshops, Outreach to K-12 and Institutions of Higher Learning,

and the EU Visit Program
I. As part of its larger outreach mission, CES will participate in the Euro Challenge, a program launched and sponsored by the Delegation of the EU to the US in Washington, DC. The Euro Challenge provides educational opportunity for high school students to learn about the EU and the euro. Student teams of five students are asked to make presentations answering specific questions about the European economy and the single currency, the euro. They are also asked to pick one member country of the “euro area” to examine an economic problem at the country level, and to identify policies for responding to that problem.
II. As part of its overall outreach efforts as a National Resource Center funded through the US Department of Education, in particular with an aim to forging connections with minority institutions in the community, CES will continue to develop as part of an ongoing collaborative project a series of classes on European and EU related topics at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black college in the heart of Austin, Texas.
III. As part of its overall outreach efforts, in particular with an aim to reach K-16 students and provide high school teachers in Texas with useful lesson plans, CES will organize every year the following workshops:

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  Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe.” Here our focus will be primarily university students. The workshop will be available to the entire university community.
  
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  Workshop 2: “Teaching European Union in Texas High Schools.” Here our focus will be primarily teacher training of high school instructors. We are targeting approximately 30 attendees for each workshop.
  

IV. The Center will sponsor the participation of three UT undergraduate students and two Texas high school teachers in a visit program to Brussels, the capital of the EU, organized by the EU Network Coordinating Center.