The Fulbright program

The Fulbright program is one of the most powerful public diplomacy instruments known. The grantees are selected with transparency criteria, based on academic and professional merit and leadership potential they have the good fortune to study, teach, and research in another country but, foremost, to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to challenges and interests of global reach. Therefore, the Fulbright Program was awarded with the Príncipe de Asturias for International Cooperation in 2014.Since its inception in 1946, the program has been dynamic and has been designed to foster exchanges between citizens of the United States and more than 160 countries in order to increase mutual understanding among nations. Pioneer in educational, scientific, and cultural exchange, more than seventy years later it remains an international reference thanks to the more than 390,000 participants who have given it recognition and prestige throughout the world.The global character and determined commitment to the excellence and academic, professional and human quality of its participants is reflected in the 62 Nobel Prizes or 90 Pulitzer Prizes obtained worldwide. In Spain, 6 Prince of Asturias awards are Fulbrighters. All of them show the successful investment of the Fulbright Program in the youth of the present and the firm decision to continue contributing to train the leaders of the future.