AAI One World Scholarship Programme
The AAI Salzburg grants scholarships to students from developing countries.
Application Deadline: 31st July 2022
Qualified Countries: Developing Countries
To Be Taken At (Country): Austria
About the Award: The One-World-Scholarship-Program is a halfway grant focused on understudies from Africa, Asia and Latin America who have come to Austria on their own drive, to finish their schooling.
Forthcoming awardees are expected to zero in on questions connected with advancement in their examinations and exploration.
Field of Study: Possible fields of specialization are neediness decrease, civil rights, worldwide movements, orientation equity, environmental change, feasible utilization of assets, food security, sustainable power sources, ecological assurance, maintainable the travel industry, urbanization, wellbeing, basic liberties, democratization, great administration, battling debasement, struggle counteraction and goal, global relations, intercultural discourse. This rundown ought to give candidates a thought of significant themes, it is, in any case, not selective.
Type: Masters, PhD
Eligibility:
- nationality of a non-European developing country (country list)
- admission to a Master or PhD programme at a university or university of applied sciences in Salzburg or Tyrol (Uni Salzburg, Uni Innsbruck, FH Salzburg, MCI, FH Kufstein)
- for PhD students: approved disposition
- age limit: Master studies max. 30 years (mothers: 35 years), PhD studies max. 35 years (mothers: 40 years) at the time of application
- residence permit “student”
The grant will add to practice the right to schooling for those basic and scholarly youngsters who experience unfortunate circumstances in their nations of origin. These perspectives actually apply all the more emphatically to ladies. Concerning from similarly qualified people, need is given to female understudies.
Selection Criteria:
- Financial need: We consider own income, savings, other means of support, profession and income of parents in order to select students who would hardly be able to successfully finish their studies without financial support.
- Evidence of good progress in studies: Good study progress documented by transcript of records of current and past studies. In programmes without entry exams, students who have already completed at least one semester at an Austrian university have a distinctive advantage.
- Interest in development and according specialisation in studies: Prospective awardees are expected to show a strong interest in development related issues, which is supposed to be reflected in the choice of study fields, prior work experience, voluntary activities etc.
Number of Awards: Not specified
Value of Award: Partial grants.
No scholarships are awarded for:
- studies at private universities
- postgraduate study programmes (“Lehrgänge”, e.g. “Universitätslehrgang” or “Fachhochschullehrgang”) or other non-degree certificate programmes
- applicants with a residence title other than “student”
- non-degree programme students („außerordentliche Studierende“)
- short term visits and exchange programmes
How to Apply:
- Use the online form provided for this purpose to apply.
- Please send required documents to office@aai-salzburg.at by by using a free data transfer (wetransfer)
- After your application has been reviewed, you will be invited for an online-interview
- The decision is taken by the scholarship committee in mid August. You will be informed about the decision shortly after.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
- curriculum vitae
- letter of motivation
- picture
- passport
- residence permit (or at least visa if not yet in Austria)
- account statement covering the past 3 months
- certificate of admission and confirmation of enrolment
- examinations taken and results of current studies
for Master students:
- Bachelor’s diploma + translation (if original is in a language other than English, French or Spanish)
- abstract of Bachelor thesis
for PhD students:
- Master’s diploma + translation (if original is in a language other than English, French or Spanish)
- abstract of Master thesis
- opinion of academic supervisor
- detailed description of research project and its contribution to deveopment practice or discourse
APPLICATION FORMS
ATTENTION: These forms are only available FOR VIEW! The submission takes place via online form.
Visit Programme Webpage for Details
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