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Professional Development Opportunities

The following programs provide outstanding opportunities for high achieving professionals to receive advanced training and professional development experience.

Those selected to receive these scholarships will receive a combination of study and cultural exchange that will enhance their career prospects and the contribution they can make to their respective fields.

Australian Leadership Awards - Fellowships are for short-term study, research, and professional attachment programmes in Australia delivered by Australian organisations. ALA Fellowships offer professional development opportunities to current and future leaders from the Asia-Pacific region by leveraging existing linkages with Australia.

Applications are restricted to Australian organisations demonstrating on-going linkages with counterpart overseas organisations in eligible countries.

Partner country counterpart organisations and individual fellows may not apply directly for support however they may initiate contact with an Australian organisation to explore their interest in applying for fellowship funding.

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Endeavour Executive Awards  You are now leaving the DEST website   enable professionals in business, industry, education or government to undertake professional development in a related field in an organisation in a participating host country in the Asia-Pacific region.  Award recipients are able to develop or upgrade their professional skills and knowledge through a host work environment, rather than through enrolment in a formal academic study programme.

The awards allow professionals the opportunity, on returning home, to share their updated skills and knowledge with colleagues.  They will also establish ongoing linkages and networks between home and host organisations.

The Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships  You are now leaving the DEST website(ELTF) is an initiative of the Australian Government to support Australian language teachers to improve their language proficiency and cultural knowledge through intensive, short-term, language and culture study programs. The ELTF program was initiated in 2003 and since then 340 practising language teachers in Australian schools have benefited from this intense professional learning program. 

The ELTF program has recently been significantly expanded to include trainee (pre-service) language teachers  You are now leaving the DEST websiteas well as increasing the number of places offered to practising language teachersYou are now leaving the DEST website