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Call for Applications: 2009 Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP)
Fellowship Opportunity for University Teachers from Eurasia & Southeast Europe
The Government of the USA is pleased to announce the open competition for the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) for the 2009 spring semester. American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, an American non-profit, non-governmental organization, receives a grant from ECA to administer the JFDP, and oversee each participant's successful completion of the program...more.
Deadline: September 5th, 16:00 o’clock.
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Ambassador Milovanovic; ALFA TV
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Ambassador Milovanovic interview with Alpha TV
July 28, 2008
Ambassador Milovanovic:…“All of us hoped that this was going to be possible to solve and everyone, including I must say in an extraordinary manner, the President of the United States personally, and the Secretary of State personally, worked up until the last moment to achieve that end. I think that you always go into something like this not totally convinced you can succeed because one never knows, but at the same time determined to succeed.“…more. | video file of the Interview - size 30.8 MB.
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Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Interview with Radio Free Europe Macedonian Language Service (Aired on July 28, 2008)
Christopher Hill: “First of all, I am very honored to receive this award. It truly was very good news for me when I was informed that the City decided to give me an award here.”…more.
Interview with Vest Daily (Published on July 28, 2008)
Christopher Hill:…”I think that this good relationship has continued to carry on to this day. As you see, we are building a new embassy and this is an embassy that I think will be a real symbol of the importance that America attaches to this relationship here in Macedonia.”…more.
American Trio Brings World Music to Macedonia
July 13-19, 2008
American composer, film maker, master percussionist, writer and arts educator Stacey Fox and her trio will visit Macedonia July 13-19, 2008. The trio will start the tour in Stip performing at Stip Summer Festival . The tour will continue in Bitola, the 2008 “City of culture”, on the Bitola summer festival. The tour will conclude with a performance in Skopje July 18th at 9:30 in Suli AN. Combining musical styles and instruments from around the world with contemporary technology, the Fox Trio’s compositional palette often includes film, sculpture, painting, spoken word and movement…more. | video file (size 31MB)
Director of Cutting-edge Rural Studio Comes to Macedonia
July 2 & 3, 2008
David Buege, Interim Director of Rural Studio at Auburn University in Alabama is now in Macedonia as part of the U.S. Speakers Program in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture at the Universities of St. Cyrils and Methiodius. Rural Studio is known worldwide for its innovative program in teaching architecture students about social responsibility in their field. Each year, students build five homes in rural west Alabama for disadvantaged residents. Buege has taught at Auburn University, Mississippi State University, University of Arkansas, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and other universities. He is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Princeton University.
Public Events: The Work of Rural Studio, (American Corner Skopje, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 6 pm | American Corner Tetovo, Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 5 pm).
Interview with Radio Kanal 77
Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European & Eurasian Affairs
Published on June 27, 2008
DAS DiCarlo:..“You know that our policy for the region is based on integration in Euro-Atlantic institutions. We believe this is the best way to ensure stability in the region, and prosperity. We think we have made a lot of progress- you have made a lot of progress in the region… I think that we can all be very encouraged on how fast and how well the region has moved on the NATO path. For the EU, and I don’t want to speak for the EU, I think we have seen tremendous progress there as well.”…more.
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Kids participate in writing stories, poetry,
essays, and play at the AC Skopje 2008 Su-
mmer Creative Writing Workshops.
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See our Cultural Envoy in Action!
June 19 - July 3, 2008 Summer Creative Writing Workshop: The Art of Words
Watch a clip of the A1 Morning Show’s coverage of Cultural Envoy Merrilee Cunningham’s creative writing class at American Corner Skopje. Cunningham, a noted poet and university professor, has been writer-in-residence at our American Corners since June 17. She is currently teaching two classes at American Corner Bitola. This project is a collaboration among the U.S. Embassy, the Educational and Cultural Affairs bureau of the Department of State, and Writers in the Schools in Houston, Texas...(watch video file - size 12MB).
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EUCOM Ground Breaking Ceremony-Canine
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EUCOM Ground Breaking Ceremony-Canine (K9) Facilities
Remarks by Ambassador Milovanovic
June 20, 2008
Ambassador Milovanovic:…”The ceremony today is clear evidence of the strong support the US Government provides the Government of Macedonia in its efforts to address organized crime and drug trafficking here in Macedonia. It also shows what is possible when ministries in Macedonia work together to address a common need, as the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior have done. In my own Mission, this project is a model example of interagency teamwork, involving active collaboration between the Departments of Justice, Defense, and State, in close cooperation with the U.S. European Command, EUCOM, based in Germany.”…more.
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USAID Administrator Henrietta In an
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USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore Receives a Warm Welcome in Macedonia
June 10, 2008
From June 8th through 10th , USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore visited USAID projects ranging from school renovations to a newly created digital media park which recently won an Oscar for special effects. Ms. Fore also met with President Crvenkovski and a group of NGO leaders to stress the United States’ continued support for programs in education, good governance and economic growth. In an interview with Tea Moderna, Ms. Fore discussed the importance of women in leadership positions and highlighted the influential roles many women have in the US Government. Read the Tea Moderna article here.
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Renowned Environmental Planner and Landscape Architect Visits Macedonia
June 16, 2008
U.S. Speaker Frederick Stein, dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin will be in Macedonia through Saturday, June 21, to meet with faculty and students as well as government officials about landscape architecture and environmental planning. In the U.S., he has previously worked with local, state, and federal agencies on many kinds of environmental plans and designs, including an analysis of watershed level growth management on part of the U.S.-Mexico border, a master plan for a landfill site in Phoenix, Arizona, and the implementation of the U.S. Natural Resources Conversation Service agricultural land evaluation and site assessment system.
Public events: Landscape Architecture: Theory and Practice from the United States, (American Corner Skopje - June 17, 2008) & (American Corner Tetovo - June 18, 2008).
Statement by U.S. Ambassador on the june 15 election re-runs
June 16, 2008
We note that the conduct of the June 15 re-run of Early Parliamentary elections was a substantial improvement over the June 1 elections. The decision to broadly re-run elections in polling stations in which the June 1 elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and/or violence, together with the significantly improved security environment, offered voters an opportunity to freely express their democratic will...more.
Related Items: Highlights on the Macedonian Elections Process 2008.
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Amb. Milavovanovic & Dr. Zlat Milovanovic
at the SEEU Graduation Ceremony 2008
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SEEU Graduation Ceremony 2008
Ambassador Milovanovic Congratulatory Remarks
June 6, 2007
Ambassador Milovanovic: “I am honored to celebrate your graduation with you today. Thank you for inviting me. You are a talented group of young people, starting out on the next phase of your lives. You have learned a lot both in the classroom and from each other. You have had the valuable opportunity to study in English, Macedonian and Albanian, and to learn other languages like French too. You have benefited from high quality support services like the career center to help you prepare for the world of work.”...more.
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Remarks by Amb. Milovanovic at the Civil
Society Strengthening Project Celebration
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Civil Society Strengthening Project Celebration
Remarks by Ambassador Milovanovic
June 6, 2008
Ambassador Milovanovic:..“The longer I am in Macedonia, the more obvious it is to me that NGOs are critical to the success of Macedonia’s multicultural democracy. Citizens need regular information from elected representatives and public institutions, and a way effectively to monitor what they do.”…more.
***Related Items: Please see this short video move which present the success of the first three years of the Civil Society Strengthening Project in Macedonia.
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Secretary Condoleezza Rice |
Trafficking in Persons Report 2008
June 4, 2008
Secretary Rice: "We are pleased that in the seven years since the creation of the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, the United States and our friends and allies have made important strides in confronting the reality that human beings continue to be bought and sold in the twenty-first century." Report | Text of Special Briefing by Secretary Rice and Ambassador Lagon
- Republic of Macedonia: 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report...full text.
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U.S. Speaker/Ann Stone (right) met with
women’s working group in Parliament
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Macedonia: U.S. Speaker Reinforces the Core of Democracy during Turbulent Time
June 3-7, 2008
In the wake of Parliamentary elections marred by violence and fraud, U.S. Speaker and activist Ann Stone spent three days in Macedonia, where she gave lively overviews of the U.S. elections system and shared her take on the current election cycle at local universities and at the American Corners in Skopje and Tetovo. Stone also met with the women’s working group in Parliament and with a group of female journalists and NGO leaders. Everywhere she went, her talks led to spirited discussions about the very core of democracy—how elections can and should be free and fair.
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Ambassador Milovanovic Interview
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Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic interview w/ Alsat TV
May 27, 2008
Ambassador Milovanovic:…”The biggest victims of all of this are the ethnic Albanian citizens of this country and I emphasize victims of this. They don’t deserve, it and they deserve all of the support of the institutions of Macedonia, which includes the Ministry of Interior and a professional police- which you do have- to make sure that they are properly treated and given their rights.”…more.
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2008 Summer Creative Writing Workshop: The Art of Words“Everyone has a personal story to tell. The Summer Creative Writing Workshops provide opportunities for storytelling and the skills needed to do it well.”
The U.S. Embassy announces with pleasure that, in partnership with Writers in the Schools of Houston, Texas and the Cultural Envoy program of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau at the Department of State, our three American Corners will have a writer-in-residence this summer to teach creative writing classes to children and teenagers...more. | Application Deadline: June 10th 2008.
[About the cultural envoy: Merrilee Cunningham Bio/WITS Writer].
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