Scholarships – United States

Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Washington, DC, USA
Scholarship / Financial aid: Fellowships available
Date: a minimum of one year
Deadline: undefined
Open to: Applicants from Malawi, Senegal, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mozambique
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=1675,us,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Scholarships – European Union

Essex Opportunity Scholarships
UK
Scholarship / Financial aid: ?1,000 for full-time students and ?500 for part-time students
Date: the 2009/10 academical year
Deadline: unknown
Open to: students from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=454,eu,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Internship at Bretton Woods Project
London, UK
Scholarship / Financial aid: ?13,520 per annum
Date: Six-month contract
Deadline: 5 October 2009
Open to: Candidates with the right to work in the UK
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=455,eu,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Liverpool, UK
Scholarship / Financial aid: undefined
Date: 18 months
Deadline: 25 september 2009
Open to: candidates with a relevant PhD and experience of independent research in a media related discipline
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=456,eu,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

TED 2010 Fellowships
Long Beach, US / Oxford, UK
Scholarship / Financial aid: available
Date: N/A
Deadline: September 25, 2009
Open to: applicants of ages 21-40 from five target regions: Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=457,eu,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

PanTheatre Training Programme 2009-2010
Paris, France
Scholarship / Financial aid: scholarships offered
Date: varies
Deadline: N/A
Open to: actors, singers, dancers and performance artists
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=458,eu,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Scholarships – Other

Master Grants
Universit?t Bern, Switzerland
Scholarship / Financial aid: six Excellence Grants offered
Date: 2010/11
Deadline: December 18, 2009
Open to: international students
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=140,other,sch&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Conferences – No fee conferences

Tokyo Performing Arts Market
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Japan
Scholarship / Financial aid: unknown
Date: February 27 – March 5 2010
Deadline: N/A
Open to: directors/managers of theaters and public halls, festival directors, producers
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=134,nfe,int&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

48th Annual Meeting Southern Conference on Slavic & East European Studies
Gainesville (Florida), US
Scholarship / Financial aid: none
Date: March 25-27, 2010
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Open to: people that come from humanities and social science disciplines
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=135,nfe,int&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Summer courses – European Union

Autumn School – Law & Business in Europe
Torino, Italy
Scholarship / Financial aid: some scholarships will be awarded
Date: two weeks
Deadline: 25 september 2009
Open to: young graduates and professionals from around the world
Website: http://www.eastchance.com/news.asp?q=283,eu,sco&issue=20090920&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090920

Deadline: 12:00 (noon), 17 November 2008.

The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) regularly announces student scholarships for master’s degree students who have completed their coursework and are in the process of writing their theses.
Scholarships are granted for a period of six to twelve months. For successful applicants, PRIO offers a monthly stipend of NOK 3,500. Students may be in residence at their home university or at PRIO’s offices in Hausmanns gate 7 in Oslo. Students in residence at PRIO will be given access to institute facilities – library services, photocopiers, etc. Each student will be assigned a supervisor from among PRIO’s staff and encouraged to take part in the institute’s scholarly activities.  Students will be expected to present their on-going work at internal seminars.

We encourage applications from students whose theses focus on themes within the fields of our research programmes. A short description of each of the research programmes at PRIO and the Centre for the Study of Civil War is included below. More information is available at our website www.prio.no.

The Security Programme (SP) comprises interdisciplinary research projects focusing on the ways in which individuals, groups, states, and international organizations respond to a range of security challenges.

The Ethics, Norms and Identities (ENI) comprises two broad and interrelated strands of research. First, research within the programme addresses normative dimensions of armed conflict and peacebuilding. Second, the programme addresses how different identities influence, and are influenced by, the dynamics of conflict and peace. Identities examined include those of gender, ethnicity and religion.

The Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (CRPB) programme has key competence on a number of countries and regions that have been, and continue to be, sites of conflict resolution and peacemaking efforts. These include Afghanistan, Cyprus, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Israel/Palestine and the wider Middle East. Core research areas of the CRPB programme are mobilization and causes of conflict, small arms proliferation, peace initiatives, disarmament and reintegration of fighters, and mine action.

The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) is a long-term, multidisciplinary initiative that aims to examine why civil wars break out, how they are sustained, and what it takes to end them. Civil war is the dominant form of armed conflict. CSCW aims to clarify the ways in which actors respond to civil war, in all its phases from onset to post conflict, whether as primary participants, general citizenry, or intervening powers.  The centre is organized into eight working groups, and its methodological toolkit includes game theory, micro- and macroeconomics, quantitative statistical analysis, comparative case studies and historical source criticism. The work of all the groups, and of the centre as a whole, has an iterative dynamic, going from theory-building to empirical case materials and back.

For further information about the process please send your enquiries to recruiting@prio.no.

or visit www.prio.no

Публикувам официалното писмо, с което Университета в Тренто обявява докторанска програма, за която има и безвъзмездно финансиране. Успех на всички, които се интересуват.
Dear Colleagues,
 
The OECD LEED Trento Centre is pleased to announce the XXIV cycle of the International Doctoral Programme in Local Development and Global Dynamics.
 
The doctoral programme is organised by the University of Trento (I) in collaboration with the OECD LEED Programme of Paris (F) and Trento (I), the Corvinus University of Budapest (HUN), the University of Bologna (I), the University of Freiburg (D), the University of Ljubljana (SLO), the University of Manchester (GB), the University of Regensburg (D), and the IAB (Institut f?r Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufungsforschung in N?rnberg) (D).
 
The new call for application has been just published. The complete call for applications, containing more detailed information and references to the regulations in force, is available at http://portale.unitn.it/drldgd/ .
 
Students are invited to submit their application by October 24th (GMT +2:00 Central daylight Summertime). Please take note that an application is successfully submitted when a hard copy of the Admission call and a copy of the applicant’s identity card and/or passport is delivered by hand, by post or by fax to the School. Attachments can be uploaded online at the following address: http://disi.unitn.it/edu/appform/login.xml
 
For enquiries and further information, the School stay at your disposal. Requests can be sent to: doctorate.LDGD@unitn.it
 
Best regards,
 
OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development

В момента съм в процес на търсене на възможности за учене в чужбина. И аз като почти всеки българин обаче съм зависима от финансите и трябва да си намеря хем подходяща магистърска програма, хем хубава стипендия, която ще ми позволи да се концентрирам върху ученето, а не върху оцеляването… Събрала съм малко информация от тук оттам и тъй като не обичам да я задържам при себе си, я публикувам тук, за да може да помогне и на някой друг. Искам обаче да ви помоля и вие да не я задържате при себе си, а да я разпространявате надлъж и на шир, така че достигне до хората, които имат нужда от нея. Аз не вярвам в твърденията на някои хора, че информацията трябва да се пази, за да нямаш конкуренция…Аз не се притеснявам, че някой друг може да получи стипендия, защото зная, че и аз ще получа…винаги нещата стават така, както трябва, с или без нашето усилие да скрием или да насилим естествения ход на живота.

И след тази нравствено-моална реч, която се чувствах длъжна да дръпна, and without further due:

Ето две страници, които по много обобщен и систематизиран начин могат да ви ориентират къде се предлаga желаната от вас специалност, колко струва, къде струва по-малко, какви възможности за допълнително финансиране съществуват и т.н:

www.mastersportal.eu
www.study-in-europe.org

Приятно ровене с часове

Ето и една търсачка на образователни програми, ако ви се учи в Холандия
www.nuffic.nl

Ако вече сте си намерили подходяща магистърска програма в Холандия, предполагам няма а откажете и малко финансиране от:

www.grantfinder.nl/content/index.asp

Много хора са се устремили към Германия, не и аз, но ето инфо за страната и университетите:

www.daad.de
http://www.inobis.de/index.php
http://www.hochschulkompass.de/
http://www-en.studienwahl.de/

Ето я и моята любов: Швеция!

http://studyinsweden.se/

Можете да се ориентирате къде искате да учите и според последните проучвания за ранга на ниверситетите. Все пак, не се хвърляйте на топ 1 – 5, защото шансовете да ви изберат са малки, освен ако не сте наистина с много голям потенциал, който можете да докажете…

Много европейски и американски университети предлагат условия на много високо ниво, тъй че ще спечелите страшно много, ако им обърнете внимание

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/

The OSI Chevеning -тази програма е истински бисер, ако ви се учи в Англия. OSI значи Институт Отворено Общество и една от най-мощните донорски организации в света. Създател е Джордж Сорос, унгарец от еврейски произход, който след гоненията на Хитлер през Втората Световна Война, емигрира в САЩ и понастоящем е един от най-богатите хора в света. Естествено парите му не са с много изяснен произход, но важното е, че чичо Джорд подкрепя Източна Европа и особено студентите, като предоставя много и различни стипендии.Той е основател и на Централно-европейския университет в Будапеща.

Аз съм щастлива, че през 2005г. заминах на едногодишна стипендия от Сорос във Вермонт, САЩ и затова имам пълното право да кажа, че Отворено Общество перфектно си вършат работата и отварят много врати и хоризонти за младите хора от цяла Източна Европа.

Ето тук са стипендиите, предлагани от Отворено общество. За съжаление, тези стипендии вече са силно ограничени за България, тъй като вече не се водим “развиваща се”, а “развита” държава, членка на ЕС. Язък!

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/scholarship/focus_areas/uk/guidelines

Сайтът на Отворено Общество София е следният: www.osf.bg

За сега толкова информация. Като ми попаднат и други възможности, веднага ще пиша…Ще се радвам и някой от вас също да сподели инфо за стипендии или разни други идеи