Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX)
FLEX 2025-26 Recruitment
This website will connect you with the online application for the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) for high school students.
About FLEX
FLEX is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program funded by the U.S. Government. FLEX provides scholarships for high school students to spend an academic year in the United States living with a host family and attending an American high school. Students from the following countries may apply:
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Greece
- Hungary
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
FLEX is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
For more information about the FLEX program, please visit www.discoverflex.org.
FLEX 2025-26 Program Brochure
Program Calendar for FLEX 2025-26
The online FLEX Round 1 application is now open. The deadline dates for each country are listed below. Scholarship finalists will travel to the United States in August 2025.
Deadlines by Country for the Round 1 Application
| Countries |
Deadline Date |
| Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, and Ukraine |
September 19, 2024 |
| Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, and Uzbekistan |
September 26, 2024 |
| Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Serbia, and Tajikistan |
October 10, 2024 |
Questions?
Please contact the FLEX program office in your country if you have any questions:
