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In collaboration with the Florence School of Regulation, belonging to the European University Institute

Category A scholarships, funded by the European Commission, are available for highly qualified third-country graduate students and scholars – to students to follow the EMIN Erasmus Mundus Masters Course, to scholars to carry out teaching and research assignments and scholarly work in the institutions participating in the Course. Category B scholarships, also funded by the European Commission, are available for highly qualified graduate students not eligible for Category A – also to follow the EMIN Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.

Students and scholars must apply to the EMIN Erasmus Mundus Masters Course. If they are accepted to participate, the EMIN Erasmus Mundus consortia apply to the Commission for the corresponding scholarship funds.

According to the European Commission rules, students shall not apply to more than three Erasmus Mundus Masters at the same call. So they have to select only three courses of their convenience at a time

Category A eligible beneficiaries:

Third-country graduate students: Third-country graduate student means a national of a third country other than the 25 EU Member States, the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) and the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey); who has already obtained a first higher education degree; who is not a resident of any of the Member States or the participating countries; who has not carried out his or her main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the Member States or the participating countries; and who has been accepted to register or is registered in the EMIN Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.

West Balkans and Turkey window students: national of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia or Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, as well as the three candidate countries, namely Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or Turkey; who has already obtained a first higher education degree; and who has been accepted to register or is registered in the EMIN Erasmus Mundus Masters Course

Third country scholars: Third-country scholar means a national of a third country other than the 25 EU Member States, the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) and the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey); who is not a resident of any of the Member States or the participating countries; who has not carried out his or her main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the Member States or the participating countries; and who has outstanding academic and/or professional experience.

When selecting students and scholars for scholarships, our Masters Program will pay due respect to the principle of gender equality. Furthermore, we should have a pro-active attitude towards potential grantees with special needs. Without prejudice to the respect of high academic standards, in order to ensure a geographical balance across third-country students / scholars, the EMIN Masters Course will respect the following basic criteria when selecting third-country students / scholars:
 no more than 2 of the selected third-country students should come from the same country.

Category B eligible beneficiaries:

Graduate students not eligible for Category A Student Scholarships

Amount of scholarships:

Students

Category A Students
For each student the scholarship amounts to 24,000 Euro per academic year. This includes the contribution to tuition fees of 8,000 Euro, 12 monthly grants of 1,000 Euro and a fixed amount of 4,000 Euro for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. As EMIN lasts two years, the student will receive double this amount: 48,000 Euro.

Category B Students
For each student the scholarship amounts to 10,000 Euro per academic year. This includes the contribution to tuition fees of 4,000 Euro, 12 monthly grants of 500 Euro. As EMIN lasts two years, the student will receive double this amount: 20,000 Euro.

Scholars
From 2,400 Euro for a two-week stay, to 14,800 Euro for a 3-month stay.

Next table summaries the fees conditions (data per academic year)


EU grant for the student Participation cost Total EU scholarship Net balance
Travel Others Total (1) Tuition fee EU contribution to tuition fee Total (2)
Type of student A B C=A+B D E F=D+E G=C+E H=C+F
Regular 0 0 0 -9500 0 -9500 0 -9500
Cat. A 4000 12000 16000 -9500 8000 -1500 24000 14500
Cat. B 0 6000 6000 -9500 4000 -5500 10000 500

(1) received by the student in its bank account
(2) This total can be split in monthly payments