EU SCHOLARSHIPS 2009 – BASILEUS – WESTERN BALKAN STUDENTS
BASILEUS - Balkans Academic Scheme for the Internationalisation of Learning in cooperation with EU universities
The Southeast European University in Tetovo, the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, and the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola are taking part in the Basileus project funded by the European Union in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window programme. This programme is a mobility scheme in the area of higher education which provides for exchanges of students, researchers and academic staff and supports mobility from non-EU countries to EU member states.
What?
The Basileus project provides funding for academic mobility from the Western Balkans to the EU and vice-versa. The Basileus partnership consists of 8 EU universities and 12 universities in the Western Balkans region. The project is funded by the ‘Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Programme’ of the European Commission, and is the first large-scale mobility project for this region.
For whom?
Students and staff members of all partnership universities, both from the Western Balkan countries and the EU, as well as other nationals of the participating Western Balkan countries, can apply for scholarships:
- Bachelor students : 6 or 10 or 34 months mobility period
- Master students : 6 or 10 or 22 months mobility period
- Doctoral students : 6 or 10 or 34 months mobility period
- Post-doctoral students : 10 months mobility period
- Academic staff (teaching, training and research) : 1 month mobility period
In which academic disciplines?
The priority fields as defined by the European Commission are:
- Agricultural Sciences
- Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning
- Business Studies and Management Sciences
- Engineering, Technology
- Languages and Philological Sciences
- Law
- Mathematics, Informatics
- Medical Sciences
- Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences
Details: www.basileus.ugent.be
