Deadline: Various
The KU Leuven is offering travel grants for European students traveling to a developing country as part of their study programme (thesis research, practical training). A grant of 1000 euro can be requested to support the travel and stay.
As a KU Leuven travel grant student, your assignment in the South should take at least 6 weeks. One of the local organizations will welcome you and guide you during your stay. This could be a university, an NGO, a government institution or a hospital. In addition, your KU Leuven promoter or supervisor will support your project abroad.
Are you enrolled as a student at KU Leuven? If so, you can apply for a travel grant if you meet the following requirements:
You are a student in one of the following programmes:
- a Bachelor’s programme
- a Master’s programme
- an advanced Master’s programme
- You are a citizen of one of the member states of the European Union or of a member state of the European Free Trade Association (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland).
- Your assignment is related to one of the parts of your KU Leuven study programme for which you will obtain credits, such as thesis research or practical training. Just following courses in a developing country, is not enough.
- You will be staying in one of the 54 eligible countries (see below).
- Your stay in the South will take at least six weeks (during academic year or holiday period).
- At least one month of the total period abroad will be scheduled in 2015. Departure in 2014 is possible as well as returning in 2015. In case your travel is planned after the 1st of december 2015, you will have to use the next edition of the travel grant programme.
- The travel grant application should be submitted before departure to the South and before the final deadline.
- You have never received a VLIR-UOS/IRO travel grant before
- You do not receive any other kind of grant to finance your study travelling period.
Destinations in developing countries that qualify for a VLIR-UOS travel grant are countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
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