Hungarian Scholarship, Academic Year 2010-2011

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Hungarian Scholarship for the academic year 2010-2011

Beginning with the academic year 2005 the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Hungary established a “scholarship pool” so as to encourage mobility in higher education and to provide opportunities for foreign citizens to widen their professional experience in Hungarian institutions of higher education.

In the framework of the pool-system, the Hungarian Scholarship Board (hereinafter HSB) announces university and research scholarships for the academic year 2010/2011 and summer school scholarships for the summer 2010 respectively. The scholarship programme is open for citizens of those countries with the Hungarian Ministry of Education has agreed to a co-operation programme. In cases where the number of foreign scholarship holders is fixed, due to previously agreed upon programmes still in force in 2010, this will be taken into consideration by the HSB during the validity period of the co-operation programme when awarding future scholarships.

The following scholarships are available in the Academic Year 2010/2011:

? semester/partial studies (3-10 months)
? postgraduate studies, research (3-21 days or 1-10 months)
C/1? full PhD programme (36 months),
C/2? partial PhD studies (12 months)
? postdoctoral studies/research (1-10 months)
? research stay (3-21 days or 1-10 months)
? summer courses (1-4 weeks)

General Provisions

These scholarships allow for study or research in any field of arts and sciences during the granted period at an accredited Hungarian higher education or research institution to be determined in advance.

Semester, partial, postgraduate studies and doctoral programmes must be carried out in state-financed institutions where no tuition fee is required. For Type A scholarship, an applicant may submit an application only on one occasion during his/her BA studies, and on another occasion during his/her MA studies.

Type A (semester/partial studies) and type C1/C2 (full PhD and partial PhD studies) scholarships may not be extended. Type B (postgraduate studies), D (postdoctoral studies, research), and E (research stay) scholarships may be extended exceptionally, only under special circumstances, on one occasion. The scholarships are valid only for studies and research purposes in Hungary. HSB scholarships can only be used for conducting studies or research in Hungary, which means that scholarship-holders must stay in Hungary during the whole period of their studies or research. Please note that for scholarships for semester/partial studies priority will be given to students of Hungarian language and literature.

The scholarships are awarded for the summer of 2010, or the academic year of 2010-2011, and these latter ones must be finished by June 2011 at the latest.

Cases of Non-Eligibility

1. Foreign citizens with a residence permit or in the course of applying for a residence permit in Hungary cannot apply.
2. All workers, men and women, who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by the law in Hungary cannot apply.
3. Students applying for part-time or correspondence study programmes cannot apply.
4. Students applying for non state-financed universities cannot apply.
5. Students admitted to tuition fee-paying institutions of higher education cannot apply.

Documents to be submitted

Every application must contain two (2) copies of the documents listed below in one of the following languages: Hungarian, English, French or German in the order given. In addition online application will also be required on the HSB website. The deadline of online application is 15^th April 2010. The online application system will be open from the beginning of February. Applicants are requested to follow the website of HSB from the beginning of 2010.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

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