Opportunity Information: Apply for DFOP0017058
The FY 2025 Youth Ambassadors Europe (YA-EUR) Program is a U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) funding opportunity run through the Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division. It is an open, discretionary competition to select a single U.S. organization to design and implement an international youth exchange program that brings European youth (and typically accompanying adult mentors, depending on program design in the full announcement) to the United States for an intensive, four-week exchange experience. The core purpose is educational and civic: the program is meant to strengthen participants understanding and practice of civic engagement, build leadership skills, and promote pluralism, with all of these themes approached through an environmental sustainability lens. In addition to the U.S.-based exchange portion, the program also includes support for participant follow-on projects, meaning that after participants return home, they are expected to apply what they learned by implementing community-based projects locally.
The program is structured around two separate cohorts, and ECA indicates an intent to fund programming in two summers: Summer 2025 and Summer 2026. Rather than making multiple awards, ECA expects to make one award total, which means the chosen implementing organization would typically be responsible for planning, recruitment coordination (often in partnership with U.S. embassies and overseas partners), participant preparation, U.S. itineraries and placements, supervision and safeguarding, educational content, and post-exchange follow-on support across both program years. Because the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, applicants should anticipate substantial federal involvement during implementation (for example, coordination with ECA on programmatic decisions, approvals, branding and messaging, participant selection parameters, monitoring and evaluation expectations, and compliance requirements). In practice, that often means a more hands-on relationship with the funder than a standard grant.
Eligibility is limited to U.S.-based organizations, and the announcement specifies that applicants may include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and U.S. nonprofits that hold 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status (other than institutions of higher education). The listing also notes an "Others" category, which typically signals that additional entity types may be eligible under the full notice, but the safe reading is that applicants should be prepared to demonstrate U.S. organizational status and the specific eligibility category that applies to them, along with the capacity to conduct international exchange programming, manage federal funds, and support youth-focused programming with appropriate duty-of-care policies.
Key program content areas are explicitly named and should shape any proposed design. Civic engagement generally points to activities that help youth understand democratic participation and community problem-solving, such as meetings with local government, community service or service-learning, civil society engagement, and skill-building on advocacy and constructive dialogue. Leadership development suggests structured training, coaching, and experiential learning that helps participants build practical leadership competencies. Pluralism, in ECA programming, often refers to respect for diversity, inclusion, and the ability to live and work across differences, which can be reflected in dialogue sessions, community immersion, and intentional exposure to a variety of U.S. communities and viewpoints. The sustainability lens indicates that environmental themes should be integrated across these areas rather than treated as a stand-alone topic, for example by framing civic projects around local environmental challenges, highlighting community-led sustainability initiatives, or connecting leadership training to climate resilience and environmental justice considerations. The required follow-on projects component reinforces that the program is intended to produce tangible outcomes beyond the exchange itself, with participants returning home equipped and supported to implement community activities aligned with the program themes.
Administratively, the opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number DFOP0017058 under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) 19.415, and the announced agency is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The original application closing date is listed as January 20, 2025. The notice states an expected number of awards of one, meaning the competition is designed to select a single implementer for the full scope described. The award type is a cooperative agreement, and the opportunity category is discretionary. The public posting (creation date) is December 6, 2024.
One important detail to flag is the listed award ceiling of 720000000, which appears unusually high for an exchange program of this type and may reflect a formatting or data-entry issue in the source record rather than a realistic program budget. Applicants would normally rely on the full announcement for the authoritative budget range, cost parameters, allowable expenses, and any cost-sharing expectations. For an accurate financial picture, the best practice is to cross-check the full notice for the ceiling, anticipated floor, period of performance, and the expected costs associated with international travel, U.S. travel, lodging, per diem, staff time, training, interpretation/access needs, monitoring and evaluation, and follow-on project support.
Overall, this funding opportunity is aimed at selecting one experienced U.S. organization to run a two-summer, two-cohort youth exchange program that connects European youth with U.S. communities and institutions, builds leadership and civic skills, advances pluralism, and channels those learning outcomes into sustainability-oriented community projects after participants return home.Apply for DFOP0017058
- The Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2025 Youth Ambassadors Europe (YA-EUR) Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.415.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-01-20. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $720,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.
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