The National Science Foundation and the Institute of International Education are pleased to announce the competition opening for the 2008 Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI). CESRI will provide ten awards for U.S. graduate students in the sciences and engineering with a high-quality international summer research experience in Austria, The Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia.

The CESRI program will be 8 weeks in length, with the first week spent as a group in Budapest, Hungary in a specially designed cultural and academic orientation to the region. Participants will spend the remaining 7 weeks working in individually-arranged placements in university labs or other appropriate sites where they can participate in creative research activities under the supervision of European mentors.

The competition for Summer 2008 is now open and full CESRI program information and application materials can be found online at http://www.iie.org/cesri. The deadline is February 4, 2008.

If you wish to receive hard copy information materials to help you promote the CESRI Program on your campus or at your institution please let us know. If you have any questions about the CESRI Program please feel free to contact us at cesri@iie.org.

Valeria Hymas
Senior Program Manager
Institute of International Education
vhymas@iie.org
212-984-5326

For additional details, see Scott Kline in Fenster Hall 140 or e-mail him at kline@njit.edu.