POSTGRADUATE
European Youth Portal – page on bursaries are usually offered through UK universities
Here is a list of country-specific
www.europa.eu/youth/ed/index_ (see www.rcuk.ac.uk). In addition, the
websites tHat Have information
EU0010001173.html UK foreign office offers Chevening awards on sources of funding:
to (largely) non-EU students (see
Other sources of funding www.chevening.com). Your government’s Austria
It’s not just Europe-wide organisations department for education may also have links
Agency for International Cooperation in
that support study abroad – funding to other sources of funding relevant to your
Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH)
may be available from any number of home country or course of study.
www.oead.at
interested parties; it can be offered by Belgium
government organisations or agencies;
some
Flamenco – Flanders Agency for Mobility
charities; professional organisations;
important
and Cooperation in Higher Education
commercial entities (this type of funding
may be referred to as ‘sponsorship’), as well
terminology
www.flamenco-vzw.be
Denmark
as universities themselves, both centrally and
Awards, Grants, Bursaries, Scholarships and
Studentships
Grants and scholarships
departmentally. When you are looking for
These terms all refer to a source of funding which
http://en.iu.dk
funding, you should make sure you’ve looked
doesn’t need to be paid back; however there are
Estonia
at all of these potential sources.
some subtle yet key differences in what each
British Council in Estonia Scholarships
term means.
www.britishcouncil.org/et/estonia-education-
Your university/college Grants tend to be made for hardship purposes
scholarships.htm
Even when they are not the primary source
and are means-tested.
of funding, universities tend to channel
Bursaries are normally a one-off payment to help
Finland
with costs such as travel or equipment
Maailmalle
most of the funding available through
to students and should be your first port
Awards can be an umbrella term for any kind
www.maailmalle.net
of payment to a student but may also refer
of call. For example, a pharmaceutical
France
to a prize that results in money being given to
organisation offering a scholarship for a a student.
CNOUS – French portal for students
www.cnous.fr
chemistry student is likely to offer the Scholarships are a limited number of funded
funding through a university’s chemistry
places on a course, usually given on merit.
EIFFEL – French grants programme
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
department rather than directly to the
Studentships are generally postgraduate
student. Universities may offer their own
programmes with funding available through the
university’s department. continued on next page
scholarships or bursaries, for those excelling
at sport or music, or funds specifically for
students from overseas.
University websites will usually have details of
all of the possible funding options available to
postgraduate students, but some will not, so
it’s always worth asking the admissions tutor
at your current university as well as the one
you wish to apply to, about potential sources
of funding.
National government
organisations
Your university adviser may point you to a
relevant government organisation set up to
support students. It is always worth checking
with your home country’s education ministry,
as well as that of the country in which you
wish to study, to see if there is funding
available. You might be surprised at what’s
offered. For example, Germany’s DAAD
(German Academic Exchange Service)
offers support programmes for postgraduate
students both home and abroad, and a
database of scholarships. In the UK, there
are seven research councils that fund
postgraduate study via ‘studentships’ which
94 www.eurograduate.com
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