Pre-Departure Orientations

2026 Pre-Departure Orientation Schedule

All candidates accepting awards for the following programs are required to attend a pre-departure orientation. If your country is not listed, there is no pre-departure orientation in the United States and the Fulbright Commission in your host country will provide more details.

The 2026 Pre-Departure Orientations will be virtual, and sessions will be held over the dates listed below. Attendance at Pre-Departure Orientations is mandatory. If you are not able to attend a session at the given time, you will be required to watch the recording.

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Africa, Sub-Saharan

Countries	Dates
Benin Botswana  Cabo Verde Cameroon Cote d’Ivoire Ethiopia Eswatini Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Tanzania  Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe	July 21 – July 23, 2026

East Asia and the Pacific

Countries/Programs	Dates
ASEAN Research Program Cambodia Mongolia Singapore Vietnam	June 16 - June 18, 2026

Europe and Eurasia

Countries	Dates
Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Cyprus Estonia Georgia Kosovo Latvia Lithuania North Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Serbia Slovenia	July 7 – July 9, 2026

Middle East and North Africa

Countries	Dates
Algeria Bahrain Kuwait Oman Palestinian Territories (West Bank) Qatar Saudi Arabia Tunisia United Arab Emirates	July 7 – July 9, 2026

South and Central Asia

Countries	Dates
Bhutan Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Maldives Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan	July 14 – July 16, 2026

Western Hemisphere

Countries	Date
Bahamas Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Belize Bolivia Costa Rica Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala  Guyana Honduras Jamaica Panama Paraguay Suriname Trinidad & Tobago	June 23 – June 25, 2026

Fulbright Global Scholar Award

 2024 Pre-Departure Orientation Recording

View PowerPoint of 2024 Pre-Departure Orientation