Bridges, the online publication of the Office of Science and Technology at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C. spoke with Wolfgang Stoiber and Eugen Stark from the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation about the new scholarship and its goals:

bridges: What is the intention behind the establishment of this new US-Austrian scholarship program?

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Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the historic speech held by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall at Harvard University on 5 June 2007, Martin Bartenstein, Federal Minister of Economics and Labour, and HE Susan McCaw, Ambassador of the United States of America to Austria, officially declared the intention of the two governments to improve Austrian-American relations in the spirit of the Marshallplan and strengthen scholarly and scientific co-operation.

Federal Minister of Economics and Labor, Martin Bartenstein and U.S. Ambassador Susan McCaw. (c) U.S. Embassy, Vienn

Funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, an academic exchange program was established to finance scholarships and fellowships for academic exchange between Austria and the U.S. with a special focus on universities of applied sciences and technical universities ('Fachhochschulen und Technische Universitäten’).

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