These projects are available for online bids. Explore your interests and learn more about how to apply. The U.S. Department of State has released its full project menu. You can also review our list, which is organized by topic/region and may be easier to make a connection to your area of expertise.
Spring 2021 project menu
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Find a project that fits your existing curriculum! Deadline is October 30.
Projects by topic
- Designing For Diplomacy: Security Upgrades for Historically Significant Properties
- Designing for Diplomacy: Net Zero Energy Building Design
- Opportunities in Off-site Manufacturing for Diplomatic Facilities
- Explore BIM and GIS Integration for US Embassies
- Designing For Diplomacy: Appropriate Architectural Representation for a U.S. Embassy of the Future and Facade Explorations with parametric Digital Design
- Changing Landscape of the Satellite Industry
- Opportunities in Off-site Manufacturing for Diplomatic Facilities
- Access to Credit: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers Facing Women Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
- A Framework for the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by a Global Security Organization
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- Impact Analysis of the 10-Year Visa for Chinese Nationals
- What are the dynamics of network creation and sustainability among exchange participants?
- What is the impact of exchange programs on communities around the world?
- Explore BIM and GIS Integration for US Embassies
- Can Pay Rates of Elected Officials and Power Consolidation Impact Corruption? - A Jamaican Case Study
- Recruitment of California Resident Hispanic/Latinx American Applicants for Foreign Service Specialist positions
- Recruiting Native Hawaiians
- Promoting Collaborative Science in Indonesia: Best International Practices for Policymakers
- Implementing Exit Controls on the US Mexico border
- How Do Different People Arrive at the Same Conclusion Consistently?
- Do Employee Recognition Awards Work?
- Prioritization of Cost Effective Energy Conservation Measures
- The Overstay Mentality: Understanding Unlawful Immigration of Cabo Verdeans
- Evolution of the Foreign Service Family
- Design the State Department's IT School of the Future
- How can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Participatory Science during Crisis: COVID-19 and the Citizen Scientist
- Changing Landscape of the Satellite Industry
- Space Exploration: Space Diplomacy Framework
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems as a Tool to Increase Global Preparedness
- Explore BIM and GIS Integration for US Embassies
- More GE for less GHG’s: Measuring the Effectiveness of Agricultural Biotechnology in Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Telling the (Bioengineered) Story
- Where are the U.S. Citizens? GIS Maps Visualizing the Diaspora in Mexico
- A Framework for the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by a Global Security Organization
- Promoting Collaborative Science in Indonesia: Best International Practices for Policymakers
- Science Rules!: An Investigation into the Rules and Norms of Scientific Integrity
- Follow the Money: A Statistical Investigation into the Relationship between Funding Levels, Cooperation, and Science & Technology Agreements
- Attack of the Mega-Science!: Design A Survey of International Research and Development Infrastructure Projects
- Open Science Policies and Perceptions in Asia Pacific
- Utilizing Technology to Access Potential Students and Exchange Participants in Remote, Socially Conservative Regions
- Can You See Me Now? – Identifying Camera Problems Autonomously
- Growing Together: Studying the Impact of H-2A Temporary Farm Workers on Jamaica's Rural Economy
- Modeling the Effect of a Nation's Fragility and Vulnerability on its Wealth
- One Belt One Ummah: Arabization of Indonesian Foreign Direct Investment
- Urban/Rural Development in Jamaica and Affordable Housing Solutions
- Access to Credit: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers Facing Women Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- S.-Norwegian Arctic Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mapping
- Follow the Money: A Statistical Investigation into the Relationship between Funding Levels, Cooperation, and Science & Technology Agreements
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of Cabo Verde’s Graduation: Contributions and the Price of Graduating from Low-Income to Middle-Income
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- UN Peacekeeping – Why it Matters and Making it Better
- Refugee and Vulnerable Populations’ Access to COVID-19 Treatments, Relief, and Recovery
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- One Belt One Ummah: Arabization of Indonesian Foreign Direct Investment
- UN Peacekeeping – Why it Matters and Making it Better
- Gaming our way out of a Crisis: A simulation-based approach towards a peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela
- Confucius Institutes in Turkey and Chinese Influence
- The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Gender-Based Violence Incidences in Latin America
- Refugee and Vulnerable Populations’ Access to COVID-19 Treatments, Relief, and Recovery
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- Utilizing Visa Restrictions to Mitigate Tension and the Risk of Political Instability
- Science Rules!: An Investigation into the Rules and Norms of Scientific Integrity
- Follow the Money: A Statistical Investigation into the Relationship between Funding Levels, Cooperation, and Science & Technology Agreements
- Attack of the Mega-Science!: Design A Survey of International Research and Development Infrastructure Projects
- Political Parties in Elections: Exploring Hybrid Possibilities Between “Individual Merit” and Parliamentary Electoral Models in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Gender-Based Violence Incidences in Latin America
- Open Source Analysis of Student Wing Violence in Bangladesh 2009 – 2019
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Indo Pacific Narcotics Trafficking
- Evaluating the Impact of Public Diplomacy Research & Analytics
- Gaming our way out of a Crisis: A simulation-based approach towards a peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela
- Impact of Youth Club Participation on Jamaican Youth Attitudes and Behavior
- Can Pay Rates of Elected Officials and Power Consolidation Impact Corruption? - A Jamaican Case Study
- Where are the U.S. Citizens? GIS Maps Visualizing the Diaspora in Mexico
- The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Gender-Based Violence Incidences in Latin America
- Open Source Analysis of Student Wing Violence in Bangladesh 2009 – 2019
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- Utilizing Visa Restrictions to Mitigate Tension and the Risk of Political Instability
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- Political Parties in Elections: Exploring Hybrid Possibilities Between “Individual Merit” and Parliamentary Electoral Models in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of Cabo Verde’s Graduation: Contributions and the Price of Graduating from Low-Income to Middle-Income
- More GE for less GHG’s: Measuring the Effectiveness of Agricultural Biotechnology in Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Marketing & Message Testing for Public Diplomacy
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Prioritization of Cost Effective Energy Conservation Measures
- Telling the (Bioengineered) Story
- Language Curriculum Development for Diplomats: Specialized vocabulary, spaced repetition, and automated lexical leveling in over 60 languages
- Confucius Institutes in Turkey and Chinese Influence
- Afghanistan Legal Education Assessment
- Marketing & Message Testing for Public Diplomacy
- Utilizing Technology to Access Potential Students and Exchange Participants in Remote, Socially Conservative Regions
- Evolution of the Foreign Service Family
Projects by world region
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- Utilizing Visa Restrictions to Mitigate Tension and the Risk of Political Instability
- Political Parties in Elections: Exploring Hybrid Possibilities Between “Individual Merit” and Parliamentary Electoral Models in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- The Overstay Mentality: Understanding Unlawful Immigration of Cabo Verdeans
- Growing Together: Studying the Impact of H-2A Temporary Farm Workers on Jamaica's Rural Economy
- Modeling the Effect of a Nation's Fragility and Vulnerability on its Wealth
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- Gaming our way out of a Crisis: A simulation-based approach towards a peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela
- Urban/Rural Development in Jamaica and Affordable Housing Solutions
- Impact of Youth Club Participation on Jamaican Youth Attitudes and Behavior
- Can Pay Rates of Elected Officials and Power Consolidation Impact Corruption? - A Jamaican Case Study
- Access to Credit: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers Facing Women Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
- Where are the U.S. Citizens? GIS Maps Visualizing the Diaspora in Mexico
- The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Gender-Based Violence Incidences in Latin America
- Implementing Exit Controls on the US Mexico border
- How Do Different People Arrive at the Same Conclusion Consistently?
- One Belt One Ummah: Arabization of Indonesian Foreign Direct Investment
- Confucius Institutes in Turkey and Chinese Influence
- Open Source Analysis of Student Wing Violence in Bangladesh 2009 – 2019
- Promoting Collaborative Science in Indonesia: Best International Practices for Policymakers
- Marketing & Message Testing for Public Diplomacy
- Open Science Policies and Perceptions in Asia Pacific
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Indo Pacific Narcotics Trafficking
- Impact Analysis of the 10-Year Visa for Chinese Nationals