Apply by February 17 | Wallenberg Summer Travel Awards (funding for service-oriented projects abroad)

Purpose
The Executive Committee of the Wallenberg Endowment is sponsoring the Raoul Wallenberg International Summer Travel Awards. While a student at the University of Michigan in the 1930s, Raoul Wallenberg traveled across North America to observe and learn from people of all kinds on their own terms. This experience helped him understand the human condition and shaped his life-long concern for human dignity and humanitarian values. His heroic efforts to rescue the surviving Jews of Budapest are an inspiring demonstration of how one individual can make a difference, even under the most dire circumstances.

In the spirit of Raoul Wallenberg's experience at Michigan, the Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award will allow selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the world. The award will support such experiences as, for instance, volunteer with a humanitarian organization such as a school, clinic, or aid program, or the exploration of humanitarian issues not well understood in the United States.

Projects should be at least four weeks in duration and take place outside of the U.S. between May and August of the current application cycle. The University's international travel policies will be followed.

Awards 
A total of five awards will be given this year to cover transportation, room and board, and local excursions made in connection with the project:

Four undergraduate awards of $2,000 each
One Bagramian Award ($2,500) for a graduate student pursuing a project related to the field of public health

The application deadline is February 17, 2014 by 11:59 PM.

For more information and for the application, please visit MCompass.
For more information on Raoul Wallenberg, please visit wallenberg.umich.edu.