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The Foundation's grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences.
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Global Semesters awards the Takis Chrysanthou Honored Scholar Award to one student each semester who is attending a semester-long program that is home-based in Cyprus.
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Scholarships include financial support for students from diverse backgrounds, rewards for academic excellence and funding for research students.
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Young people deserve to experience the world beyond their college campuses, but not everyone can afford to travel, especially if you’re on a student budget. The Tortuga Backpacks Study Abroad Scholarship is awarded biannually to passionate students who w ...
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Two full international tuition fee scholarships will be awarded to North American students enrolled on the MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction or MFA Creative Writing. Applications must be received by 31 March 2016. Eligible applicants from North America wi ...
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The Churchill Scholarship provides funding to American students for a year of Master's study in science, mathematics, and engineering at the University of Cambridge, based at Churchill College. The Scholarship was set up at the request of Sir Winston Chur ...
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This scholarship is named in honor of Robert McNeill, member of the IES Abroad Board of Directors for 25 years (6 years as Chairman).
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The NextGen Scholarship Fund was created for international students and non-citizens who come to the United States with hopes of obtaining higher education to create a better life for themselves and their families. It is a local (Washington DC, Maryland a ...
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Duisenberg school of finance will select a top graduate admitted to any one of the DSF Master's programmes for a merit award worth €5000, based on his/her undergraduate/Master's Thesis results.
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May be awarded to Canadian Indigenous persons enrolled in an accredited institution at the graduate level (Masters and PhD only) who wish to study outside of Canada.
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Recipients will receive the trip of a lifetime: foreign immersion combined with volunteering and self-growth with the international volunteering and learning organization UBELONG.
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Open to students who are currently attending a Hispanic-Serving Institution that is a member of Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU).
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The Omprakash Ambassador Travel Grant supports travel and living expenses for qualified, energetic, and entrepreneurial individuals who want to volunteer abroad within our international network of grassroots health, education, and environmental Partner or ...
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Each year BUTEX awards a number of scholarships to students studying abroad for either a semester or for a whole academic year.
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This award was created to honor Sandy A Mactaggart for his many contributions to the University of Alberta. Mr Mactaggart spent ten years on the Board of Governors, four years as Chancellor and Chair of the Senate, and six months as Interim Chair of the B ...
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The AllPeopleBeHappy Volunteer Service Award enables volunteers to do service projects in the developing world. These Volunteer Service Awards enable impassioned young people to give of their time and talents while expanding their understanding of people ...
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Thanks to the generosity of the late Walter Jensen, the AATF is able to offer a scholarship for study abroad to a future teacher of French.
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The IDEA scholarship is a merit-based, partial-tuition scholarship awarded to new international undergraduate applicants entering in the fall (September). All international students who apply for admission by January are considered for this award. A separ ...
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Study for a full semester together with German and international students at one of Germany’s leading universities of applied sciences. Generous support is provided by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for the most competitive applicants to the ...
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