Deadline- January 14, 2013
Countries/Region- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
The Open Society Foundations/French Government offers funding for Scholarship Programs to the applicants from Central Asia to Pursue Master Degree in Social Sciences and Humanities at Universities in France.
Eligible fields include economics, environment, history, international relations, law, philosophy, political science, public administration, public health, and sociology.
The program aims to promote academic exchange opportunities to broaden applicants’ educational, professional, and cultural experiences, so that they may return to their home countries to share their knowledge in the academic or professional sphere.
The program places participants at accredited universities in France. Before beginning their masters degree programs, fellows attend an intensive OSF Summer School in Istanbul which includes academic writing courses with seminar-style social science courses. During the academic year in France, a fellows’ conference is held in Paris to increase the group’s cohesiveness as a cohort.
Eligibility & Criteria–
- be a national of and resident in one of the Central Asian countries at the time of applying for the award and intend to return to their home country or region at the end of the period of study
- display intellectual ability and leadership potential
- be a student in their fifth year of undergraduate studies, and/or already hold the first university degree in their home country or region with outstanding academic records
- have education or professional experience in one of eligible fields of study
- be applying for a Master 2 in economics, environment, history, international relations, theory of law, philosophy, political science, public administration, public health, and sociology
- meet the French university’s respective programmes’ selection criteria
- demonstrate appropriate French language skills.
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