{"176521":{"#nid":"176521","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Applications for U.S. Teaching Assistantships in Austrian Secondary Schools","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usta-austria.at\/site\/programdescription\/program?SWS=anc7d1ikc9l84mhv3sjg70dp32\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usta-austria.at\/site\/programdescription\/program?SWS=anc7d1ikc9l84mhv3sjg70dp32\u0022\u003EU.S. Teaching Assistantships at Austrian Secondary Schools\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis program is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (BMUKK), and teaching assistants are employed by school boards in all nine Austrian provinces. In 1962 the Austrian-American Educational Commission (AAEC), which manages the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fulbright.at\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fulbright.at\/\u0022\u003EFulbright Program in Austria\u003C\/a\u003E, also assumed responsibility for recruiting US citizens to participate in this program and administering their applications. Since then over 2,900 college and university students from the United States have been placed as teaching assistants in Austrian secondary schools.\u0026nbsp; Although the participants in this program make a substantial contribution to the fulfillment of the Fulbright Program\u2019s mandate to promote mutual understanding between the peoples of Austria and the United States, participants in the US Teaching Assistantship Program are \u003Cstrong\u003Enot grantees\u003C\/strong\u003E in the Fulbright Program.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Teach English in Austria."}],"uid":"27710","created_gmt":"2012-12-10 16:42:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:31","author":"Susan Belmonte","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-01-14T23:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-01-14T23:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-01-14T23:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-01-15 04:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-01-15 04:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-01-15 04:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"98281","name":"Pre-Teaching"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}