Applications are invited for the Visegrad scholarship program to support the mobility of students and researchers among V4 region, Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership Countries.

This scholarship program includes Master’s and Post-Master’s schol­ar­ships to selected schol­ars for peri­ods of 1 or 2 semes­ters. The schol­ars are expected to work on their study/research projects at the host university/institution for the entire schol­ar­ship period.

Course Level: Scholarships are available for Masters and post-Masters (Ph.D./postdoc) studies/research stays at higher-education institutions in the V4 region as well as in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries.

Study Subject(s): Scholarships are awarded in all subjects.

Scholarship Award:

• €2,300/semester for the scholar + €1,500/semester for the host
• Possibility to apply for a separate travel grant, if residing further than 1,500 km from the host

Scholarship can be taken in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, the Russian Federation and Ukraine (The applicant’s home and host uni­ver­sity must be dif­fer­ent).

Eligibility:

• Eligible applicants (Incoming scheme): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine. Applicants from these countries can apply for up to 4 semesters (MA level) or 2 semesters (Ph.D./postdoc) at higher-education institutions in V4 countries.
• Eligible applicants (Outgoing/Intra-V4 schemes): Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Applicants from V4 countries can apply for 1 or 2 semesters at higher-education institutions in V4 countries (Intra-Visegrad scheme), and in Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries (Outgoing scheme).
• The appli­cant must either have com­pleted a Bachelor’s pro­gram or—in spe­cific cases (if the study pro­gram is not divided into dis­tinct Bachelor’s and Master’s study programs)—completed at least 3 years before start­ing the scholarship.
• The applicant’s home and host uni­ver­sity must be dif­fer­ent, i.e., the pre­vi­ous level of uni­ver­sity stud­ies (last obtained aca­d­e­mic diploma before start­ing the schol­ar­ship) must be com­pleted in a coun­try other than where the appli­cant applies for studies.

Nationality: Citizens of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine can apply for this Visegrad Scholarship Program.

Masters Scholarships

How to Apply: Submit your appli­ca­tion online. Then print your appli­ca­tion form directly from the on-line sys­tem (using the ‘Print’ but­ton), sign it and sent it together with the com­pul­sory annexes (please note that they require orig­i­nal doc­u­ments; copies can­ not be accepted) by the dead­line. The appli­ca­tion can be either deliv­ered per­son­ally to the fund by the dead­line date or sent by post and post­marked with the dead­line date as the lat­est pos­si­ble.

Note: Please be informed that hard-copy ver­sions of the appli­ca­tion form printed out prior to their sub­mis­sion in the sys­tem are invalid.

Application Form

Scholarship Application Deadline: March 15, 2019

Scholarship Link