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Rules of the Visegrad Scholarship Program

The VSP is a specific program of the Fund created to facilitate academic exchanges by providing financial support to students or researchers who are citizens of the V4 countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (hereinafter the “Member States”) and for foreign citizens to study in the Member States. All universities accredited by the governments (Ministries of Education) and Institutes of Academies of Sciences are eligible to be host as well as home institutions. The aim of the VSP is to support the mobility of students and researchers among the specified countries.

The length of the supported period of study/research shall be 10 months (2 semesters) or 5 months (1 semester). The maximum length of supported studies for applicants within the In-Coming Scholarship scheme applying for Master’s Scholarship is 20 months (4 semesters). The level of supported studies shall be:

•  Master’s studies (the student must have completed at least 4 semesters at home university prior to applying),
• Post-Master’s (doctoral or other postgraduate programs)
  

The application for financial subsidy shall be filled out and registered in English on-line in the prescribed form and then sent in hard copy to the Fund’s secretariat.

Compulsory annexes to the application form are as follows:

•  A copy of the certified translation of the Master’s or last obtained diploma (in the event the applicant has not finished his/her Master's studies, he/she shall submit a certificate stating current year of study at home university and expected date of obtaining his/her Master’s diploma, issued by the home university). In applying for the Master’s Scholarship, a transcript of academic records is also required.
• A letter of acceptance from the host university/institution which is not older than 3 months when submitting the application. If the applicant applied for courses that require admission tests or personal interview (results of which will be known only after the deadline for the VSP applications), the applicant shall submit a proof of his/her application for studies at the host university/institution. The actual letter of acceptance shall be submitted before the signing of the contract with the Fund, by the end of July of the respective year at the latest.
•  A working plan of the study/research period, accepted by the host university/institution which is not older than 3 months when submitting the application. If the applicant applied for courses that require admission tests or personal interview (the results of which will be known only after the deadline for the VSP applications), the applicant shall submit a draft of the working plan. The working plan accepted by the host university/institute shall be submitted before the signing of the contract with the Fund, by the end of July of the respective year at the latest. If the applicant applies for the Master’s Scholarship, he/she shall submit a list of courses that he/she plans to attend and state the length of these courses and credits.
  
  The application shall be registered on-line as well as sent by post or delivered personally to the following address:

International Visegrad Fund
Kráľovské udolie 8
811 02 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

More details: http://www.visegradfund.org/

Deadline for the applications—the latest date of the postmark and e-mail communication—is January 31 each year. The earliest date for commencement of the study/research project is September of the respective year.