APS 2022 PDS Italy

The United States Embassy is pleased to announce the 2022 Annual Program Statement (APS). The APS makes funding available for cultural and exchange programs that strengthen ties between the United States and Italy, highlight shared values, and promote bilateral cooperation. The APS is a best practice utilized by many U.S. embassies around the world to solicit proposals for funding via an open and transparent competition process.

The United States Embassy invites proposals from all qualified individuals and organizations. All programs must include a significant American cultural element and/or a connection with American experts, organizations or institutions in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. foreign policy and perspectives. The deadline for submission of proposals is March 31, 2022.

***Please carefully read our Priority Program Areas and the Evaluation Criteria below: proposals which do not match our priorities will not be considered for funding.

Please note that for the 2022 APS, the maximum request for funding will be $100,000. The U.S. Embassy may award smaller amounts than the full proposal, as deemed appropriate. The U.S. Embassy also strongly encourages proposals with cost-sharing.

Priority Program Areas Are:

• Prosperity: Fostering empowerment, economic recovery, and shared prosperity through
• STEM education and entrepreneurship;
• Climate: Addressing the climate crisis through U.S.-Italy partnerships
• Democracy: Strengthening and/or explaining democratic institutions, principles, and
• norms and renewing trust in democracy, and combatting disinformation;
• Shared Values: Promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in support of
• U.S.-Italy shared democratic values;
• Security: Advancing shared interests in the realm of security and transatlantic relations
• between the United States and Italy;
• Human Rights: Innovatively promoting human rights through education and the arts;
• American Studies, to include university linkages.

The Public Diplomacy Section encourages applications from Italy and the United States: • Registered U.S. and Italian not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience in Italy; • U.S. or Italian individuals; • U.S. and Italian non-profit or governmental educational institutions; • U.S. and Italian Governmental institutions.