---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10706"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10706"
heading: "Promoting cross-cultural and educational engagement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10706"
units:
  - "Chapter 114 — Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity"
---

# §10706. Promoting cross-cultural and educational engagement

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that—
  - (1) promoting partnerships between [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) universities and universities in the [Western Balkans](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3) advances [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) policy goals and requires a whole-of-government approach, including the utilization of public-private partnerships; and
  - (2) such partnerships would provide opportunities for exchanging academic ideas, technical expertise, research, and cultural understanding for the benefit of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and may provide additional beneficial opportunities for cooperation in the private sector.
- (b) **University partnerships—** The President, working through the Secretary of State, is authorized to promote partnerships between [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) universities and universities in the [Western Balkans](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3), including—
  - (1) supporting research and analysis on cyber resilience;
  - (2) working with partner governments to reform policies, improve curricula, strengthen data systems, train teachers and students, including English language teaching, and to provide quality, inclusive learning materials;
  - (3) encouraging knowledge exchanges to help provide individuals, especially those who historically have had reduced access to relevant education, [training](/usc/22/8921.md?p=3), and skills for meaningful employment;
  - (4) promoting teaching and research exchanges between institutions of higher education in the [Western Balkans](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3) and in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1); and
  - (5) encouraging alliances and exchanges with like-minded institutions of education within the [Western Balkans](/usc/22/10703.md?p=3) and the larger European continent.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXIII, § 8337, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1875.)