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The Ford Foundation International Fellowships
Program (IFP) provides opportunities for advanced study to exceptional
individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their
respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and
greater economic and social justice worldwide. To ensure that Fellows
are drawn from diverse backgrounds, IFP actively seeks candidates from
social groups and communities that lack systematic access to higher
education.
IFP is the largest single program ever
supported by the Ford Foundation. By investing $280 million over ten
years through 2010, the Foundation intends to build on its half
century of support for higher education. Foundation programs have long
promoted the highest educational standards and achievement. Ford
fellowship recipients have become leaders in institutions around the
world and have helped build global knowledge in fields ranging across
the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities and arts.
IFP draws on this tradition and underscores the Foundation's belief
that education enables people to improve their own lives as well as to
assist others in the common pursuit of more equitable and just
societies.
IFP in the Netherland
In 2006, there are 8 IFP Fellows studying in
the Netherlands. They come from Indonesia (5 Fellows), Mexico (1
Fellow), Thailand (1 Fellow) and Vietnam (1 Fellow).
For more information about the IFP Program,
please visit
http://www.fordfound.org
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