Possible sources of fellowships for non-EU students
In general, candidates should bear in mind that official procedures require several months. It is therefore advisable to make a request for a fellowship as early as possible. Deadline for the courses is May 1. It is of no use to contact headquarters of organisations. Applications should be made through local projects/delegations only.
Examples of grants/fellowships
The Netherlands Fellowship Programme - NFP
The fellowship programme for Master's Degree Programmes is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is intended for professionals from 57 developing countries. Applicants must have been admitted to a Master degree programme offered by a Dutch institute for higher education and recognised by the NFP programme. Please note that you have to send your application form for admission to Van Hall Larenstein at least three months before the deadline of NFP to make sure that you will receive your admission letter in time. Applications must be sent to the nearest Dutch Embassy or consulate in your country or region. The application deadline varies per country.
www.nuffic.nl
STUNED Programme
This programme offers fellowships to Indonesian teachers, government officials and professionals with a Bachelor degree (S1) who wish to obtain a Master degree or take postgraduate courses at a Dutch university. Application takes place through the Netherlands Education Centre (NEC) in Jakarta or Surabaya. Note that only official TOEFL, IELTS or ITP language tests are accepted.
Other scholarships
Many international organisations, such as various United Nations agencies, the European Union, the World Bank, regional development banks and private foundations, provide scholarships or fellowships for studying abroad through special programmes or as part of projects and loan programmes. Please inquire at the offices of these organisations in your country/region or consult their websites.
For a detailed list of sponsoring agents specifically targeting Dutch programmes a web-tool has been developed by Nuffic. The address is www.grantfinder.nl
The information listed below is intended as a guide to possible sources of finance. Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences cannot guarantee availability of funds from any of these organisations.
Student Grants program
Donates 1000 euro every three months to a student who is going to study abroad. The deadlines for applications are 1 April, 1 July, 1 October, 1 January.
www.student-grants.eu
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
l-00100 Roma
Italy
tel. : (06) 57971
telex: 625852 FAO I, 625853 FAO I, 610181 FAO I
fax : 39-6-52253152, 39-6-5782610, 39-6-52255155
Open to: nationals of countries receiving United Nations Development Programme or Trust Fund assistance. Candidates must have practical experience in the field of study since these fellowships are designed to equip qualified personnel to aid technical, economic and social development in their countries of origin.
Applications: Through local projects sponsored by FAO only.
European Community (EC)
Through the European Community delegation in your own country.
Candidates: the competent government authority in their country should endorse their candidature. Particular priority is given to candidates whose vocation is connected with the implementation of training programmes or with investment projects of the European Development Fund (Agriculture).
Duration: grants cover the duration of the course approved.
Application forms may be obtained from the competent government authority in the applicant's own country and should be returned completed to the authority.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
ECA Expanded Training and Fellowship Programme for Africa
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
tel. : (01) 44 7200; 44 7100
telex: 21029 eca addis
Open to: nationals of ECA Member States who must be nominated by their government. Candidates should have appropriate vocational and professional qualifications and some years of practical experience.
Applications: to the Training Administration in candidate's country. Additional information may be obtained from the Chief, Public Administration, Management and Manpower Division.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
7, place de Fontenoy,
75700 Paris
France
tel. : (01) 45-68-1000
telex: 270 602; 204 461 UNESCO Paris
Open to: nationals of Member States of UNESCO who occupy positions in their countries. All candidates must be nominated by their governments.
Applications must be presented by the competent national authorities. No consideration can be given to applications submitted individually.
World Council of Churches (WCC)
150 route de Ferney
P.O. Box 66
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
tel. : (22) 91 611
fax: (22) 91 0361
Personnel development in churches and church-related organisations.
Open to: candidates from any country (particularly developing countries). Candidates must have completed basic training and acquired some working experience in areas related to the proposed fields of study. They must also be nominated by the competent authorities of the church or church-related agency and selected by the national scholarships committee in their country. Courses requested should normally not be available in home countries.
Applications: at least 12 months before study. For further information contact national correspondent in candidate's home country (usually the Christian Council) or WCC.
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
1320 19th Street
NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
USA
Tel.: (202) 861-8223
Fax.: (202) 861-9307
Email: institute@ihep.org
www.ihep.org
The Global Policy Fellows Program (GPFP) is designed to provide opportunities for early-career professionals in the fields of public policy and research.
Open to: candidates from a numer of selected countries. Please check the website for more information.
Applications: Online. Please see the website for their requirements.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
USA
tel.: 206 709 3100
www.gatesfoundation.org
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people-especially those with the fewest resources-have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
Eurasia Foundation
1350 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
USA
tel.: 202 234 7370
www.eurasia.org
Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed non-profit organisation supported by USAID and other public and private donors. Since 1992, Eurasia Foundation has invested nearly $360 million through more than 8,000 grants and operating programs across the former Soviet Union.
Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
tel.: 212 573 5000
fax: 212 351 3677
www.fordfound.org
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than half a century it has been a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide, guided by its goals of strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation and advancing human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia.
MPR Associates, Inc.
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 800
Berkley, CA 94704
USA
tel.: 510 849 4942
fax: 510 849 0794
www.mprinc.com
MPR Associates, Inc. is an education research and consulting firm with offices in Berkeley, California and Washington, D.C.
National Center for Education Statistics
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC
20006 USA
tel.: 202 502 7300
http://nces.ed.gov
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. NCES collects postsecondary education data about institutions, faculty, and students through its universe collection, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and through a number of longitudinal studies. The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 established IES within the Education Department, and IES brings rigorous and relevant research, evaluation and statistics to the nation's education system.
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230 USA
tel.: 703 292 5111
www.nsf.gov
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of $5.92 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to over 1,700 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 42,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 10,000 new funding awards. The NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
1250 Hancock Street, Suite 205N
Quincy, MA 02169
USA
tel.: 781 348 4200
877 635 5436 (toll free)
fax: 781 348 4299
www.nmefdn.org
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest philanthropy in New England that focuses exclusively on promoting access, quality and effectiveness of education. Established in 1998, the Foundation provides grants and other support to education programs in the region designed to improve underserved students' academic achievement and access to higher education. It also funds research that examines critical educational opportunity issues. Since it was established, the Foundation has distributed nearly $72 million in grants.
Currently, it is realigning its program investments. It will continue to focus its grantmaking on strategies that support underserved learners while building knowledge on how to dramatically improve outcomes for the majority of New England's learners. The emerging program areas include early learning, use of time in learning, examination of the pathways involved between secondary and postsecondary education, and adult learning with a focus on postsecondary opportunities.
Philip L. Graham Fund
c/o The Washington Post Company
1150 Fifteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
USA
tel.: 202 334 6640
fax: 202 334 4498
www.plgrahamfund.com
The Fund was established in 1963 to honor the memory of Philip L. Graham, who was publisher of The Washington Post and president of The Washington Post Company for many years before his death. Gifts from his widow, Katharine Meyer Graham, his friends and The Washington Post Company formed the initial corpus of the Fund.
TERI
P.O. Box 848108
Boston, MA 02284
USA
tel.: 617 422 8810
fax: 888 FAX TERI
www.teri.org
TERI Is a Boston-based national nonprofit organisation, focused on promoting access to education for people of all ages and backgrounds. TERI directs the Pathways to College Network, an alliance of over 30 nonprofit organisations and funders committed to advancing college access and success for underserved students, and supports research projects and initiatives related to improving college access and affordability.
Additionally, TERI is the most experienced and largest nonprofit guarantors of private loans for education, helping students close the gap between education costs and their other resources such as financial aid, savings and family support.
TG
P.O. Box 83100
Round Rock, TX 78683
USA
tel.: 800 252 9743
fax: 512 219 4633
www.tgslc.org
TG is a public, nonprofit corporation that helps create access to higher education for millions of families and students through its role as an administrator of the federal family education loan program (FFELP). Its vision is to be the premier source of information, financing, and assistance to help all families and students realize their educational and career dreams.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
1025 F Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20004
USA
tel.: 202 552 2000
fax: 202 552 2299
www.pewtrusts.org
The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.
The Sallie Mae Fund
12061 Bluemont Way
Reston, VA 20190
USA
www.salliemaefund.org
The Sallie Mae Fund is a charitable organisation sponsored by Sallie Mae. The Fund achieves its mission-to increase access to a post-secondary education for America's students-by supporting programs and initiatives that help open doors to higher education, prepare families for their investment, and bridge the gap when no one else can.
United Planning Organization
301 Rhode Island Avenue
Washington, DC 20001
USA
tel.: 202 238 4600
www.upo.org
The United Planning Organization, the designated community action agency for Washington, D.C., is a private nonprofit corporation that plans, coordinates, and implements human service programs in Washington, DC. UPO's rich history dates back to December 1962 when the agency was established via gifts from both Ford and Meyer Foundation grants awarded to plan, initiate and support long range programs for the entire Metropolitan Washington, DC area.
Today, UPO operates numerous programs including Head Start/early childhood development, youth programs, family strengthening services, and substance abuse treatment/counseling. Others are neighborhood initiatives, housing services, energy programs, specialized training services, welfare-to-work, and others.'UPO does these things either directly or via a partnership of more than 60 community-based organizations.
USA Funds
P.O. Box 6028
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6028
USA
tel.: 317 806 1200
fax: 317 806 1203
www.usafunds.org
USA Funds is the nation's leading education-loan guarantor. A nonprofit corporation, USA Funds works to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access, and success by providing and supporting financial and other valued services.
USA Funds links colleges, universities, proprietary schools, private lenders, students and parents to promote financial access to higher learning. During the past 47 years, the USA Funds guarantee has supported a total of more than $154 billion in financial aid for higher education. USA Funds has served more than 18.2 million students and parents, as well as thousands of educational and financial institutions.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek, MI 49017
tel.: 269 968 1611
fax: 269 968 0413
www.wkkf.org
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 to "help people help themselves." Specifically, the organization supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. For greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas, including health, food systems and rural development, youth and education, and philanthropy and volunteerism. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
Wal-Mart Foundation
702 SW 8th Street
Bentonville, AK 72716
USA
tel.: 800 925 627
www.walmartfoundation.org
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and the Wal-Mart Foundation are proud to support the charitable causes that are important to customers and associates in their own neighborhoods. Through its philanthropic programs and partnerships, the Wal-Mart Foundation supports initiatives focused on enhancing opportunities in education, job skills training, sustainability and health. In 2007, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and the Wal-Mart Foundation gave $296 million to communities across the United States.
African Development Bank
Avenue Joseph Anoma
B.P. 1387
Abidjan 01
Cote d'Ivoire
tel. : 32 0711
www.afdb.org
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
P.O. Box 5925
Jeddah 21432
Saudia Arabia
tel. : (02) 636 1400 through 09
fax : 6366871
www.isdb.org
Asian Development Bank
P.O. Box 789
1099 Manila
The Philippines
tel. : 63-2 711 3851
www.adb.org
World Bank
1818 H Street N.W.-MSN-J2-204
Washington D.C. 20433
USA
tel. : (202) 477 1234
fax : (202) 473 6414
www.worldbank.org
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (Badea)
Baladia Road
P.O. Box 2640
Khartoum
Sudan
tel. : 73645 through 47
www.badea.org
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
One United Nations Plaza
New York NY 10017
USA
tel. : (212) 906 5000
www.undp.org
American Association of University Women
American Association of University Women
AAUW Educational Foundation
AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund
1111 Sixteenth St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
USA
tel: 800/326-AAUW
fax: 202/872-1425
E-mail: info@aauw.org
The information listed above is intended as a guide to possible sources of finance. Van Hall Larenstein cannot guarantee availability of funds from any of these organisations.