Business Exchange & Student Training
Mission: To foster competition and entrepreneurial high-tech culture in Italy via a transfer of US best practices through an exchange program with Silicon Valley
Program modules:
1. Three months of classes to study entrepreneurship
2. Each student works for three months in a start-up in Silicon Valley
3. After the repatriation(*), students are supported for six months by an Italian tutor to launch their own start-up
Scholarship: tuition fees + travel + housing + monthly allowance + health insurance
Target: Bachelor degree, PhD students (<35 year old) with high-tech ideas or early start-ups
Actors: USA Embassy to Italy, Fulbright Commission, INVITALIA, Italian Consulate in SF, Fondazione CRT
For details about the tender, timing and process please refer to http://www.fulbright.it/programma-best/
(*) Grantees enter the United States with a J1 Visa whereby they must leave the US upon completion of the program and cannot be employed in the US for 2 subsequent years