The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announcements an open competition for a cooperative agreement to manage the FY2016 organizational components of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program.
The YES program
advances the U. S. foreign policy goals of engaging youth populations and building civil society by providing physical exchanges and building lasting ties between high school students from countries with significant Muslim populations and the people of the United States.
The agreement will also fund exchanges for American youth that will immerse them in the cultures of several selected countries with significant Muslim populations while living and attending high schools abroad.