Call For Scholarships To Taiwan

 The International Visegrad Fund—National Science Council, Taiwan Scholarship Program is a pro­gram oper­ated jointly by the Fund and the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan. The aim of the pro­gram is to facil­i­tate aca­d­e­mic exchanges by pro­vid­ing sup­port to PhD can­di­dates and post­doc­toral researchers from the V4 coun­tries who intend to study or con­duct research in Taiwan. Reciprocal part of the pro­gram sup­port­ing mobil­ity of Taiwanese researchers to the V4 region is oper­ated by the NSC.

V4 applicants—citizens of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia—can apply to study or con­duct research at higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions accred­ited by the gov­ern­ment of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Study/research length: 10 months (2 semes­ters); pos­si­bil­ity to re-apply once (i.e., max. length of sup­port is 20 months)

Eligibility and support: Prospective appli­cants must be cit­i­zens of one of the V4 coun­tries (CZ, HU, PL, SK) and have very good knowl­edge of English or Chinese both spo­ken and writ­ten. The fol­low­ing two types of schol­ar­ships are recognized:

• PhD stud­ies: schol­ars must have fin­ished MA or equiv­a­lent and must be enrolled in the first 4 years of a full-time PhD program
• Postdoctoral research: schol­ars must hold a PhD degree and con­duct full-time research activ­ity in V4 countries

Scholarship amounts:

• €750/month for PhD level+ €800 one-time travel grant
• €1,000/month for post­doc level + €800 one-time travel grant

Areas of support:

1. nan­otech­nol­ogy
2. elec­trotech­ni­cal industry
3. biotech­nol­ogy
4. infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy (IT)
5. tourism
6. social sci­ences and humanities

Application form:

• on-line appli­ca­tion form
• annexes to the appli­ca­tion form (all annexes must be sub­mit­ted in English—orig­i­nally issued or cer­ti­fied translated):

• copy of cer­ti­fied trans­la­tion of MA or last obtained diploma
• ver­i­fied con­fir­ma­tion of enroll­ment in PhD pro­gram issued by university/institution (on let­ter­head paper, stamped and signed by uni­ver­sity authority)
• let­ter of accep­tance or equiv­a­lent doc­u­ment form the host university/institution no older than 3 months when sub­mit­ting the application
• work­ing plan accepted by host university/institution no  older than 3 months when sub­mit­ting the application
• two let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion (one from the super­vi­sor or head of research group)

Deadline: June 29, 2012 at 12:00 noon CEST (UTC+02:00)

More infor­ma­tion:

• Rules of the pro­gram [  .PDF, 50.7 KB ]
• Lenka Bučková, Program Manager

Tel.: +421 259 203 816
E-mail: buckova@visegradfund.org

Web: http://visegradfund.org

Tel.: +421 259 203 816

E-mail: buckova@visegradfund.org