U.S.-Mexico Training, Internships, Exchanges, and Scholarships (TIES) Initiative Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), anticipates making up to five awards of up to $300,000 each as part of the U.S.-Mexico Training, Internships, Exchanges, and Scholarships (TIES) Initiative. These three-year partnerships will focus on strengthening higher education capacity in two areas: * Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change, and Competitiveness * Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Competitiveness These higher education partnerships include objectives to: * Strengthen curricula in the specified focus areas * Provide scholarships * Provide opportunities for exchange of Mexican and U.S. scientists and scholars * Help build the higher education capacity of Mexican partner institutions Application Deadline: September 10, 2009 Further Scholarship Information and Application

Call for Mexican Government scholarships for foreigners 2010 This Call for scholarships and grants shall be open from April 22 through August 31, 2009, and online registration of candidatures shall be done from July 15 to August 15, 2009, with the exception of the following Programs: “Genaro Estrada” Program for Specialists on Mexico; High-Level Lecture Program; Special Internship Program; Studies on Mexican Independence and the Mexican Revolution; Program of Visits for News Media Collaborators; the Mexican Program to Improve the Quality of Mexico’s Higher Education Institutions; and the “Daniel Cosío Villegas” Programs of El Colegio de México. The foregoing shall remain open until October 30, 2010. Online registration for these programs is not required. Further scholarship information and Application