A limited number of partial scholarships for this year’s Baltic Studies Summer Institute intensive study of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian have been made available, the program director at the University of California, Los Angeles, has announced.

Anyone age 12 and older may participate in the eight-week summer session and may apply for a scholarship, Johanna Domokos, director of BALSSI 2007, announced in an e-mail.

BALSSI, which began in 1994, this year and next is hosted by the Center for World Languages at UCLA. The 2007 institute runs from June 25-Aug. 17.

The scholarships are being made available through contributions from the University of California Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching and UCLA Summer Sessions. Information about and application materials for the scholarship are available from the summer session Web site.

For more information about the Baltic studies program, visit the BALSSI Web site.

Teenagers ages 13-15 are invited to participate in the second “Heritage Latvia” English-language tour sponsored by the American Latvian Association. The trip is scheduled July 12-27.

The tour is designed to introduce youth to the homeland of their ancestors. It will concentrate on what is “unique about Latvia, including its history, culture, environment and geography,” the ALA said in announcing the tour.

The trip will begin and end in Rīga, and will include visits to a number of landmarks and cities around the country. Youth also will visit two schools in Latvia.

The first “Heritage Latvia” tour was in July 2006.

For further information, contact trip organizer Anita Juberts, American Latvian Association, 400 Hurley Ave., Rockville, MD 20850. Juberts also may be reached by telephone at +1 (301) 340-8719 or by e-mail at projekti@alausa.org. An application form in Microsoft Word format may downloaded from the ALA’s Web site.