What: The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) invites Indian citizens to apply for the 2009 Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Programme (FNELP) Fellowships.

Who can apply:

FNELP is designed for mid-level Indian environment professionals in the public or private sector.

About FNELP:

The fellowship combines short-term practical training with opportunities for netwroking with American counterpart organisations. FNELP fellows will be placed with US environmental public/private organisations, NGOs, academic institutions or research centres and environment-related government agencies.

It is a non-degree four-month programme.

Important date:

The application deadline is February 15, 2009.

How to apply:

Interested applicants can obtain details including application materials from any USIEF offices and from its Web site http://www.usief.org.in under the 'Fellowships for Indian Nationals' link for 'Researchers' and 'Professionals'.

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