Transforming U.S.-India Higher Education Collaboration – Fostering Academic Integrity | ND NOFO 19 115

Opportunity Information: Apply for ND NOFO 19 115

The grant opportunity titled "Transforming U.S.-India Higher Education Collaboration - Fostering Academic Integrity" (Funding Opportunity Number: ND NOFO 19 115) is a discretionary, education-focused cooperative agreement offered by the U.S. Mission to India. It was created on June 28, 2019, with an original application deadline of July 31, 2019. The program is designed to strengthen collaboration between U.S. and Indian higher education communities by addressing academic integrity as a practical, institution-wide priority, with a clear emphasis on training, cross-border engagement, and the creation of lasting resources that extend beyond a single event or grant period.

At the core of the project is the design and delivery of three in-person Academic Integrity workshops. These workshops are meant to be jointly led by American and Indian educators and subject-matter experts, reinforcing a collaborative model rather than a one-way transfer of practices. The workshops must take place in Tier II Indian cities, and they should be distributed across three of the five U.S. Embassy Consular districts in India: North India, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, or Hyderabad. This geographic requirement signals that the program is intentionally looking beyond major metropolitan hubs, aiming to reach institutions and educators in emerging academic centers where integrity policies, faculty training, and student support systems may be developing rapidly but unevenly.

In addition to the workshops, the selected grantee must organize a 90-minute regional digital engagement event. Specifically, this is a South Asia-focused Zoom video conference hosted at the American Center in New Delhi. The purpose is to connect the American expert or experts involved in the project with audiences in two to three South Asian countries. The announcement lists potential countries such as Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while leaving room for "others," indicating flexibility as long as the event meaningfully engages a regional audience. This component expands the initiative from a bilateral U.S.-India framework into a broader South Asian conversation about academic integrity norms, challenges, and implementation strategies, while using a relatively lightweight but high-reach virtual format.

A third major deliverable is the creation of an online educators platform hosted on the grantee's website. This platform is intended to serve as a hub for sharing best practices and facilitating networking among educators focused on academic integrity. The opportunity description makes sustainability a priority, suggesting that reviewers will likely favor proposals that show how the platform will remain active after the grant ends, such as through ongoing content updates, moderation plans, partnerships, or integration with existing professional communities. Taken together, this online component functions as the program's long-term infrastructure, allowing workshop outcomes, tools, and connections to persist and scale.

The award structure indicates a cooperative agreement, which typically means the funding agency expects to be more involved than in a standard grant, potentially including collaboration on planning, coordination, branding, and deliverable expectations. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $70,000. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and U.S.-based nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education). The listing does not specify an expected number of awards in the provided source text, but the single-program structure and modest ceiling suggest a limited number of funded projects, likely aimed at one primary implementer responsible for coordinating experts, venues, virtual programming, and web platform development.

Overall, this opportunity funds a packaged set of activities that combine localized capacity-building (the three Tier II city workshops), regional dialogue (the South Asia Zoom conference), and durable knowledge-sharing infrastructure (the online educators platform). The common thread across all components is practical support for academic integrity in higher education, implemented through U.S.-India expert collaboration and designed to produce outcomes that continue to benefit educators and institutions after the initial grant-funded period.

• The U.S. Mission to India in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Transforming U.S.-India Higher Education Collaboration – Fostering Academic Integrity" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.040.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2019-06-28.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-07-31. (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 $70,000.00 in funding.
• 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.

Apply for ND NOFO 19 115

[Watch] Creating a grant proposal using the step-by-step wizard inside the applicant portal: