The Avery Dennison Foundation InvEnt (Invention + Entrepreneurship) Scholarship Program is designed to recognize and reward invention, innovation and excellence in high-achieving students studying in the fields of science, engineering and technology at selected higher education institutions in India. The scholarship is primarily merit-based. Selected students will receive US $1,200 scholarship to be used in their second year of study. These scholarship awards are part of a unique and prestigious program offered by the Avery Dennison Foundation to inspire the spirit of invention among university students.
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The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program brings together people of diverse expertise and backgrounds in a collaborative environment to promote innovation and impact in a wide range of global issues.
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The International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP), an initiative of IIE's Center for International Partnerships, aims to increase international partnerships between higher education institutions in the U.S and those abroad. India being one of the focus countries, IIE New Delhi manages study tours of U.S delegations and facilitates meetings and partnership opportunities with Indian higher education institutions.
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LDM is an international initiative that facilitates leadership development in the fields of reproductive health and population in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Philippines. Since 2000, LDM has made consistent progress towards realizing its goal to build and sustain a critical core of trained and established leaders with vision, commitment, knowledge and skills to improve the delivery of reproductive health services in the region. The LDM supported Leadership Fellows are public health professionals, journalists, academics, lawyers, community health workers, doctors, and government employees and they lead nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and public sector departments as advocates for strong, protective reproductive health policies.
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NYU Abu Dhabi is a highly selective, four-year, liberal arts and science college located in the city of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, which opened in fall 2010. Although a new campus, NYU Abu Dhabi is closely connected to all of the expertise, support and resources found at NYU in New York City as well as NYU's global sites on five continents. It has an international student body with 300+ students, from 70 countries, 6 continents.
The undergraduate program is a full, four-year program; students enter through the Abu Dhabi campus, and graduate from the Abu Dhabi campus with a New York University degree. B.A and B.S degrees will be awarded, with more than 19 majors in both the liberal arts and sciences.
Classes will be taught by faculty who are leaders in their fields, with small classes and low faculty-to-student ratios (8:1) allowing for valuable mentorship opportunities. NYU Abu Dhabi students will be encouraged to spend at least one semester, and up to three semesters, at any other NYU site in New York City, Paris, London, Madrid, Accra, Florence, Prague, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires. In every academic major, special focus will be placed on issues of global citizenship.
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The Young Laureates Programme, an expansion of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, fosters innovation in the next generation. Launched in 2009, the initiative supports visionary young men and women at a critical juncture in their careers, enabling them to implement inventive ideas that tackle the world’s most pressing issues in five areas: science and health, applied technology, exploration, the environment and cultural preservation. The Young Laureates Programme was designed to complement the original Rolex Awards for Enterprise, established in 1976.