Visegrad scholarships support Masters and post-Masters (PhD/postdoc) studies/research stays at higher-education institutions in the V4 region, as well as in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries.
Scholarships, Grants and Events Abroad
Scholarships, grants, conferences, seminars, youth festivals and summer schools with a focus on economics, political and social science, international communication, and youth development
December 15, 2016
November 27, 2016
Gerda Henkel Fellowships 2017/2018
New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study
in the humanities and social sciences in Bucharest,
Romania announces a Call for Applications for its newly launched
GERDA HENKEL Fellowships. The program targets young researchers
/ academics working in the fields of humanities (in particular
archaeology, art history, historical Islamic studies, history,
history of law, history of science, prehistory and early history)
from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belarus, China
(only Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions), Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
October 26, 2016
Riau International Youth Summit 2016
Youth, as
active agents of future growth, have a great responsibility in ensuring
that our nation live in a world that is better than today. Youth have to
able to hold answer keys to the question ‘what is the role of young
people in driving change?’ since our responses to this will affect on us
and our world. The rise of youth forums and youth movements should,
therefore, be supported in order to facilitate and provide space for
young people determine their role and keys in shaping our better future.
October 18, 2016
Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2017
Each year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
funds Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a full-time postgraduate
degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Gates
Cambridge Scholarship covers the full cost of studying at Cambridge. It
also provides additional, discretionary funding.
The aim of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme is to build a
global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of
others.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October
2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
to the University of Cambridge; this is the largest ever single
donation to a UK university.
October 10, 2016
International Winter School for Educators
The winter school will provide a forum for 15 junior educators from
European countries who want to exchange ideas on methods and teaching
practices on the topic of Nazi forced labour and its memory in post-war
Europe from a transnational perspective. The focus will be on civilian
forced labour in Nazi Germany. The winter school will also focus on how
educators can use documents archived in the ITS Digital Archive, which
include among others multi-million page collections of records on forced
labour, post-war DPs and resettlement.
October 8, 2016
African Humanities Program
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to reinvigorate the
humanities in Africa through fellowship competitions and related
activities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In
partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
which has generously provided funding, AHP offers African scholars an
integrated set of opportunities to develop individual capacities and to
promote formation of scholarly networks. The African Humanities Program
supports the Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to develop and retain
African academics at universities in Africa.
October 6, 2016
Visby Programme Scholarships 2017/2018

The aim of the Visby Programme is to support individual mobility,
thereby contributing to increased contacts and collaborations between
actors in Sweden and countries in the EU Eastern Partnership and Russia.
The goal is to build an integrated, knowledge-based and
research-intense region, centred on the Baltic Sea while also including
EU Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.
October 5, 2016
Facebook Fellowship Program
The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to encourage and support
promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant
research in areas related to computer science and engineering. Winners
of the fellowship are entitled to receive two years of tuition and fees
paid, a stipend of $37,000 each year, and up to $5,000 in conference
travel support. Applications will be evaluated based on the strength of
the student's research statement, publication record, and recommendation
letters. While open to students in any year of PhD study, heavy
emphasis on research and publication record favors students who are
further along in their course of study.
October 4, 2016
Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy 2016
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
invites progressive young leaders between 25 and 35 years to apply for
the first edition of the Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy,
which will take place from 20th till 27th of November 2016 in Germany (Berlin, Schwerin).
May 26, 2016
2016 Human Science Summer School in Fukuoka
The Human Science International Course in
the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan,
invites Graduate School students studying outside of Japan to the 2016
Human Science Summer School. Those of you eligible and interested in the
education of our International Course are encouraged to apply. We offer
financial support and course credits, as well as course education and
laboratory experience.
The Human Science Summer School provides a program consisting of 15 lectures of 90 min in combination with research experience at a laboratory of a
faculty member of your choosing (afternoons). The lecture course,
Advanced Design and Technologies for Human Science, is designed as an
overview of the whole curriculum of the Human Science International Course.
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