The University of Milano-Bicocca is offering three research fellowships totaling €75,000 will be offered to Scholars at Risk. "The term 'scholars at risk' refers to professors, researchers, doctoral students, and post-doctoral fellows who work or have worked at higher education institutions and hold a qualification equivalent to at least Level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)."
Applications to the fellowships will be submitted by the Department of the University of Milano-Bicocca hosting the Visiting Scholar using exclusively the online form available at the following address: https://forms.gle/E47dDT4kwqUCRZaC6
Applications will be accepted from the date of publication of the call until February 6th.
Since 2016, with the project BICOCCA FOR PEACE, University of Milan-Bicocca has been committed to support students coming from areas of conflict, particularly poor countries or students whose higher education study path has been impacted by local political situation.
In 9 years, several scholarships were launched and dozens of students have been supported and welcomed. All these initiatives has been merged into a common framework programme to support at-risk students from all over the world, going beyond single countries focus and broadening the definition of ‘risk’ in order to include as many students as possible.
Given the above, aim of this call for application is to address any risk or vulnerability situation of students, better described in the annex 1 of this call.
The University of Milan-Bicocca offers up to 10 scholarships.
The scholarship includes:
● an allowance of € 4.200 - (gross for the recipient) and a tuition fee-waiver per academic year;
● a bed in a shared room in one of the University Dorms (in or off campus);
● a meal card at reduced price;
● enrollment into National Health Care System;
● exemption from the tuition fees.
For all info please consult the call for applications.