Webinar: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grantee Showcase - June 6, 2018

The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office of the U.S. Department of Education presents a grantee showcase webinar for the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program.

In this webinar, Lara Wasner from the University of Detroit Mercy shares her experience as project director of a Fiscal Year 2017 short-term Group Projects Abroad grant entitled, "African Contributions and Contemporary Issues in Northeast Brazil: A Curriculum Development Project Integrating Social Sciences and the Arts". The overarching goal of this GPA project was to provide a 4-week collaborative learning experience in Brazil providing participants multiple perspectives of the African-American experience through scholarly research and dialogue in Northeast Brazil in order to inform learning, build and enhance resources and internationalize curricula in meaningful and measurable ways.

QUESTIONS AND TIME STAMPS
1. When were you awarded a GPA grant? What type of short-term project did you select i.e., seminars, curriculum, group research and why did you select this type of project? (2:37)
2. Why did your institution decide to apply for a GPA grant? (6:43)
3. How did you settle on a topic? What was the topic of your project? (10:15)
4. Were you able to secure buy-in/support from your colleagues? Did you form an internal taskforce or management team to collaborate on the short-term project? (16:56)
5. Who made up your grant writing team? (23:40)
6. What difficulties did you encounter during the development phase of the grant proposal process and how did you overcome these difficulties? (30:35)
7. How was the project director selected? Can you tell us about their experience in managing a project of this size and scope? (35:27)
8. How did you go about drafting the selection criteria? (38:53)
9. The Plan of Operation and the Evaluation Plan award the most points. Applicants can earn up to 20 points for each of these criteria. Can you talk about how you went about addressing these sections in the project narrative? (44:40)
10. What other helpful techniques do you have in putting together a competitive proposal? (52:23)

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Presentation by:
- Lara Wasner, Director of Language and Cultural Training, University of Detroit Mercy (Project Director of the university's FY 2017 GPA grant)
- JoAnn Jung, IFLE Staff Member