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Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) is a scholarship student exchange program administered by the U.S. Department of State through funding from the Freedom Support Act. The program provides opportunities for high school students (ages 15–19) from former Soviet Union (from 2015 including Baltic states), initially including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine, to spend a year in the United States, living with a host family and attending an American high school. The program seeks to develop the leadership abilities and cultural awareness. The competition is intense. Only about one in fifty applicants are ultimately selected.〔(Future Leaders Exchange ) at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs site〕 The program was created in 1992 after former Senator Bill Bradley’s conviction "that the best way to ensure long-lasting peace and understanding between the U.S. and Eurasia is to enable young people to learn about democracy firsthand through experiencing it".〔(FLEX page ) at CIEE site〕 Since its inception in 1993, more than 18,000 high school students from 12 Eurasian countries (two more countries which used to participate in the program are Belarus and Uzbekistan) have studied in the U.S. under the program.〔(Future Leaders Exchange ) at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs site〕 On 1 October 2014 Russia pulled out of the programme. Russian students remaining in the US were allowed by the Russian side to complete their scholarship, and in the next editions, Russian students will be replaced by students from Ukraine and other countries.〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/russia-exhcange-_n_5942142.html〕〔http://fakty.interia.pl/swiat/news-nyt-ukrainscy-uczniowie-zajma-miejsca-rosjan,nId,1532653#iwa_item=12&iwa_img=0&iwa_hash=40441&iwa_block=facts_news_small〕 ==See also== * Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange * Youth Exchange and Study Programs * (CIS FLEX Community ) (Russian and also International version) * (CIS Blogs Finalists ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Future Leaders Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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