The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) fosters mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through international educational and training programs. The bureau does so by promoting personal, professional, and institutional ties between private citizens and organizations in the United States and abroad, as well as by presenting U.S. history, society, art and culture in all of its diversity to overseas audiences.
State Exchange is a Web-based interactive directory for the alumni of Department of State exchange programs. It extends the exchange experience for alumni after they return home from the U.S. And it allows them to stay in contact with one another—and with us at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs—through networking and sharing useful information about professional opportunities and development.
The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Founded in 1968, IREX designs and implements programs to foster interaction between specialists from Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Mongolia, and East Asia and their colleagues in the United States. Through all its programs, IREX works to improve American understanding of the countries in which it works. There is also IREX Ukraine and IREX Russia which provide information about IREX programs in the Former Soviet Union.
The International Education and Resource Network (I*EARN), a leading non-profit educational telecommunications network, engages students and educators in collaborative projects that explore their humanity, identify common values in a cross-cultural milieu, and recognize the interdependence of their lives and lifestyles. I*EARN has facilitated educational and development projects since 1988, pioneering interactive approaches to using the Web by encouraging participants to actively contribute to, rather than passively "surf," the Internet."
Their web address is http://www.iearn.org.
The International Renaissance Foundation and other related Soros foundations seek to foster the development of open societies around the world, particularly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, through programs in education, media and communications, human rights and humanitarian aid, science and medicine, arts and culture, economic restructuring, and legal reform.
Eurasia Foundation, Kyiv
The Kyiv office of the Eurasia Foundation. A nonprofit grantmaking organization that supports technical assistance, training, educational, and policy programs in the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet region with financing from the US Agency for International Development.
The online version of the Environmental Education Teacher Training Manual in Russian - http://www.metalsrussia.com/environment/book.html
The Center for Economic Initiatives (CEI)
Freenet Yellow Pages
All organizations that have a freenet address in Ukraine. Includes NGOs, Universities, etc.
NGOs in Ukraine
A list of NGOs by city in Ukraine.
ACTR/ACCELS
Homepage of ACTR/ACCELS in Washington D.C.
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts
Located on the Kyiv Mohyla Academy Campus.
Infoukes Site
Site listing Ukrainian pages throughout the world.
Tryzub Site
Information about Ukraine.
Brama Site
Information about Ukraine.
Petersons University Information
This site will show you colleges and universities that offer 2 and 4 year degrees and also graduate degrees. Input your desired major and the search engine will show which universities provide that major.
Managing Global Issues Information Network
The first free, on-line, searchable database of experts, institutions, and publications that deal with global issues--such as organized crime, arms proliferation, cross-border financial flows, environmental degradation, and many others.
Ukrainian Students' Supersite
This site showcases on-line magazines from Universities in Ukraine. They also provide their own personal pages and links.
Organizations Active in the NIS and CEE Regions:
Friends & Partners:
Contains a plethora of information on Russia, other NIS countries, the United States, and cooperative projects among these countries.
Russian and East European Studies Home Pages (REESWeb):
The most comprehensive guide to network resources of interest to scholars of the NIS and Central and Eastern Europe. The REES center keeps a growing mountain of information well organized.
BISNIS: The Department of Commerce's Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States. Find out everything you need to know about doing business in Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union.
E-mail addresses of libraries and archives in the NIS
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) is a leading US scholarly organization devoted to the study of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia.
ArcheoBiblioBase (English and KOI-8 Russian, Windows Russian) is a database of archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg housed at Yale University that covers 250 repositories and over 1,000 bibliographic entries.
The Balkans Pages, maintained by the San Francisco-based "PeaceNet," provides an index of resources on that region.
Center for Civil Society International serves as an international clearinghouse working to engage private and local organizations to establish direct links with counterpart organizations in the burgeoning civil society of the former USSR.
The Center for Post-Soviet Studies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing Western understanding of the former Soviet Union, and is particularly strong in the area of Central Asia studies.
The Eurasia Foundation is a nonprofit grantmaking organization that supports technical assistance, training, educational, and policy programs in the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet region with financing from the US Agency for International Development.
The Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) has been supporting democratic initiatives and movements in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia for the past ten years.
The International Science Foundation (ISF) was created in 1992 by philanthropist George Soros to provide interim support for basic research in the former Soviet region and the Baltic states, now primarily through logistical support to international technical assistance efforts.
The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American expertise and knowledge about Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is one of several area studies programs of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC.
The MacArthur Foundation, Russia is part of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Chicago-based, non-profit charitable foundation established in 1978.
The National Forum Foundation (NFF) operates media, governance, and economic development training programs in Central and Eastern Europe, employing a "hands-on," long-term, on-site approach.
The Sabre Foundation Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization providing educational support to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe and former Soviet Union.
The quarterly Slavic Review offers electronic post-print editions.
The Joint Committee on the Soviet Union and Its Successor States at the Social Science Research Council offers a series of research grant opportunities.
Soros Open Society Institutes and related Soros foundations seek to foster the development of open societies around the world, particularly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, through programs in education, media and communications, human rights and humanitarian aid, science and medicine, arts and culture, economic restructuring, and legal reform.
The US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) is a private, non-profit foundation created as an American response to the state of science and engineering in the former Soviet Union by encouraging productive civilian employment opportunities for FSU defense scientists. CRDF has announced a call for proposals for its new Cooperative Grants Program, with applications due March 1, 1996.
The US Agency for International Development is an independent federal government agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.
The United States Institute of Peace promotes education and training, research, and public information programs on means to promote international peace and resolve international conflicts without violence.
The International Vega Laboratory is a ten-year-old research and training center based at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; it provides e-mail training, connectivity, consultation and user support to academic institutions in Moscow and select other cities in Russia.
Computers and Internet Resources http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Veronica/
Internet/Computer Glossary http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/?ctb.gloss
Internet Resources Newsletter http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn1.html
Digital Libraries - Much varied information (very good) http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm
WWW Information Resources http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/www-info.html
Internet Searching Tools http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/search.html
Internet Training http://civic.net/library/chapters.html#chap1
Information Technology Training http://netways.shef.ac.uk/index.html
Computers Technical Resources http://www.techweb.com/helper/
SGML Resources http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html
Electronic Publishing Resources http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Metadata Resources http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html
WEB Information http://www.computer.org/pubs/expert/1997/trends/x1008/mauldin.htm
WEB information http://WWW.Stars.com/
WEB Page Design http://ds.dial.pipex.com/pixelp/wpdesign/wpdintro.htm
WEB Teaching and Publishing http://learning.lib.vt.edu/webserv/webserv.html
New ! World Leader in Computer Literature Publishing
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Annotated bibliography on information technology http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
Bibliographic Format on Internet http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles
American Computing Magazine http://www.mindspring.com/~ozzyfudd/amercomp.html
Intranet Information http://library.usask.ca/~scottp/intranet/resources.html
JAVA Resources http://www.snymor.edu/pages/library/java.htmlx
Netizen Information about the use of Internet http://www.netizen.com/netizen/97/12/index3a.html
Computer Software
Library Software Vendors Resources http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/vendors.html
Oracle Computer Software http://www.oracle.com/products/trial/html/trial.html
http://www.oracle.com/products/
http://www.cois.com/houg/groups.html
VTLS Library Software http://www.vtls.com/