ВОВЕД
 
We are participants of U.S.Exchange Programs ( Hubert Humphrey, William Fulbright, Ron Brown and other programs) who have formed Macedonian American Alumni Association (MAAA) for promoting professional contacts and organized exchange of academic ideas among ourselves and Fellows and Alumni Associations of other countries. The Association is a nonpolitical, nonprofit and entirely private voluntary organization. The Constitutional meeting of Macedonian - American Alumni Association was held on March 24, 2000 in Skopje. The seat of MAAA is in Skopje City, Republic of Macedonia.

The Association has permanent contacts and regular cooperation with other U.S. Alumni Associations, Alumni Associations all over the world, as well as with the Institute of International Education in Washington D.C, U.S.A wich has a coordinating role on behalf of all Alumni Association.

The Association is very useful and acts as a center which continues and promotes the contacts between scholars and researchers from Macedonia. It enables us to feel as a part of a larger body of scholars engaged in international academic exchange and in educational reforms as well in establishing a modern civil society building in our country

An alumni organization is a forum for organizing discussions and debates on the most pressing academic and social issues of today and for presenting options of those issues on behalf of the Macedonian Academic Community. The main goal is to have different activites which target the promotion of the professional and social communication among its members and relevant institutions in Macedonia and USA. 
 
THE MAAA CONSTITUTION

OBJECTIVES

The main objectives are:
To establish and maintain a network of Macedonian Fellows/Alumni of Government supported and other Fellowship Programs in the U.S.A; 
To create a Forum to sharing ideas and experiences in verious fields education, science and culture and the strengthening of Fellow’s commitment to be a significant role in Programs which should contribute the National Development and Democracy; 
To promote and support the professional development , knowledge in the wider sense of the word, skills and capacity building among fellows as a modus vivendi to benefit our institutions and country 
To initiate discussion on national development issues with objectivity and impartiality. In this way, the Association will function as a “Think tank” of the creative initiatives and actions; 
To dedicate our services to the people and nation benefit by organizing and participating in community activites by lectures, seminars, workshops, voluntary work, ect. Also to demonstrate our leadership roles in the humility expected in serving humanity; 
To support the Humhrey, Fulbright and Ron Brown Programs and other Fellowship Programs in U.S.A and Macedonia and to serve as a bridge for strengthening the bilateral relations between both countries; 
To network with other national as well as regional U.S. Alumni Associations with emphasis on associations of neighbouring countries with a view to foster social, cultural and economic ties, to contribute to the organization and perfomance of International and Regional Alumni Conferences and thus to strengthening international peace, security and economic cooperation; 
To cooperate with the Embassy of the United States of America in Macedonia and with the Office of Public Affairs within the Embassy in carrying out educational and cultural activites, as well as with U.S experts in Macedonia who are working on projects in varios fields; 

  Each of these objectives is supported by a special projects formulated as a program of activites in different field, supporting the main goal of the Association, wich means assistence or direct partipation in processes of development of our country. We believe that the expertise and shared experiences of Association members, being put together, may have impact on a number of aspects of educational and academic reform and on the society as a whole. 

ACTIVITIES

Organizing and participating in various activities in the local community like: lectures, disscuions, seminars, workshops, ect; 
Organizing exhibition, movies presentation and other cultural events; 
Regional conferences for alumni of the region along, with faculty staff and students of regional universities and American colleagues; 
Publications that include both professional work, information materials and alumni impressions occurred through their exchanged experiences; 
Assisting the riquirementst, orientation and debriefing activites for the participants of Macedonian- American exchange programs; 
Dissemination of information about Macedonian - American academic exchanges and their results via Internet, through educational fairs, conferences, ect; 
Encouraging the members and organizations by additional explanation that we work with to develop their projects and support them by grants for the named issues;

LINKS

http://macedonia.usembassy.gov/index.html

http://macedonia.usaid.gov/index.htm

http://macedonia.usembassy.gov/american_corners2.html