PROGRAM ON GLOBAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Grants Authorized 2005

Strong universities and a scholarly infrastructure are critical to Russia and Nigeria’s future. MacArthur grantmaking assists in the development of modern, university-based scientific and social scientific research and training capabilities in Russia. MacArthur supports Russian state and private institutions of higher education, as well as research institutes, scholarly journals, and networks of scholars. In Africa, the Foundation is providing long-term support to four leading Nigerian universities, helping them to rebuild and upgrade their facilities, curricula, and faculty. The four universities are the University of Ibadan, the University of Port Harcourt, Bayero University in Kano, and Ahmado Bello University.

RUSSIA

Academic Educational Forum on International Relations, Moscow, Russia
$560,000 in support of activities aiming to modernize and strengthen the scholarly field of international relations in Russia (over three years).

American Councils for International Education, Washington, D.C.
$100,000 in support of enhancing the distance learning programs of the European Humanities University International.

$250,000 in support of operating and administrative costs at the International Humanities University in Exile, a successor to the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus.

Autonomous Non Profit Organization ISE Center, Moscow, Russia
$1,600,000 in support of the Centers for Advanced Studies and Education program (over four years).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
$600,000 in support of the journal Pro et Contra (over three years).

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
$375,000 in support of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (over three years).

European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
$2,000,000 in support of the organization’s project on strategic development.

Independent Institute for Social Policy, Moscow, Russia
$220,000 in support of a sociological data archive and related training program, a small grants competition on social policy research, and the SPERO journal of social policy research (over two years).

Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia
$2,000,000 to support the acquisition of a new building.

Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia
$45,000 in support of a project aimed at introducing European educational standards in Russian regional universities.

New Economic School, Moscow, Russia
$2,000,000 in support of the endowment of professorships or acquisition of a new building.

Regional Public Organization Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning, Moscow, Russia
$240,000 in support of informational, policy research, and training activities in Russia and the post-Soviet states (over three years).

Russian Political Science Association, Moscow, Russia
$270,000 in support of activities aiming to facilitate the development of political science in Russia (over three years).

Salzburg Seminar, Middlebury, Vermont
$175,000 in support of the Russian Higher Education Program.

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
$10,000,000 in support of the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia (over five years).

AFRICA

ABTI-American University of Nigeria, School of Information Technology and Communication, Yola, Nigeria
$100,000 to establish a hub for the Center for Information and Communication Technology Innovation and Training.

African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
$800,000 to strengthen capacity in Africa for policy research and graduate training in economics (over four years).

African Virtual University, Nairobi, Kenya
$1,270,000 to supply discounted bandwidth to a consortium of universities in Africa (over three years).

Committee of Vice-Chancellors, Abuja, Nigeria
$215000 to re-engineer and strengthen capacity and influence in the sector (over two years).

JSTOR, New York, New York
$122,000 to provide access to scholarly resources in the humanities and social sciences to Nigeria’s research and higher education institutions (over five years).

National Universities Commission, Abuja, Nigeria
$350,000 to increase capacity to meet the challenges of monitoring and coordinating the university system and to bring to scale some of the positive developments in the Nigerian university system (over two years).

Nigeria Higher Education Foundation, New York, New York
$400,000 in support of fundraising and development for Nigerian universities (over three years).

Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions, Zaria, Nigeria
$200,000 in support of improving information and communication technology in selected Nigerian universities of higher education (over two years).

Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria
$50,000 in support of the purchase of books and materials for the Olusegun Obasanjo Research Library.

Tertiary Education Network, Rondebosch, South Africa
$160,000 to improve the technical capacity of the universities involved in the African Virtual University (over three years).

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
$250,000 in support of building the culture of educational philanthropy (over three years).

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
$303,000 in support of improving user access at university libraries in Nigeria to research and information materials (over three years).

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