Funds from the UMN Collaborative Arts Program for the support of the 2008 Spark Festival.

The Alexander Dubcek Fund supports academic exchange between the University of Minnesota and the countries of Eastern Europe. The fund is named in honor of Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak politician and leader of Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, and was established a he visited the University in the early 1990s. The Office of International Programs invites proposals from University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students that will support the general goals of the fund.