Eurasia Foundation invites accredited higher education institutions from Russia and the United States to submit joint proposals for creating new bilateral partnerships as part of the US-Russia University Partnership Program (UPP). The two-stage competition offers modest "contact" funding to support the design of partnership project proposals and more substantial "linkage" funding for the implementation of partnership projects. Proposals must include at least one Russian and one U.S. institution. All application materials for Contact project funding are due on March 2, 2015. Application materials for Linkage project funding are due on May 18, 2015.