Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Documentary Film directing

Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with Third Countries. Additionally, it contributes to the development of human resources and the international cooperation capacity of Institutions of Higher Education in Third Countries by increasing mobility between the European Union and these countries.
The Erasmus Mundus programme offers two categories of scholarships to students selected by the DOC NOMADS consortium.

Category “A” scholarships
Candidates who fulfil the third country students criteria* are eligible for a category “A” Erasmus Mundus scholarship, awarded on the basis of academic excellence.

*THIRD COUNTRY STUDENTS: students from countries OTHER than a Member State of the European Union, an EEA-EFTA State (Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein), who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, training or work) for more than a total of 12 months as from the 28th of February 2007 in one of these countries.

Contribution to travel, installation and any other type of costs: EUR 8000 / two years
Maximum contribution to the EMMC participation costs: EUR 16000 / two years
Monthly allowance: EUR 1000 /month for 24 months

Category “B“ scholarships
Candidates who fulfil the European students criteria* are eligible for a category B Erasmus Mundus scholarship, awarded on the basis of academic excellence

*EUROPEAN STUDENTS: students from countries a Member State of the European Union, an EEA-EFTA State (Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein)

Maximum contribution to the EMMC participation costs: EUR 8000 / two years
Monthly allowance: EUR 500 /month for 24 months

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship winners from EU countries will be exempt from paying the additional EUR 2000/semester of the tuition fee.

The number of scholarships available in different categories in the first edition (2012-2014) were as follows:

• 9 scholarships for students in Category A
• 7 scholarships for students in Category B
• 4 additional scholarships for the special region: Western Balkans and Turkey; Tunisia and Egypt; Eastern Neighbourhood Countries i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

The number of scholarships in the edition 2013-2015 will be somewhat lower.

Individuals who have already benefited from an EMMC scholarship are not eligible for a second scholarship in order to follow the same or another EMMC.
Students fulfilling the eligibility criteria for both Category A and B – e.g. students with a double nationality – must select the Category of their choice.
In order to make the programme more attractive to third-country nationals, the amount of the full study scholarship will be higher for third-country masters students (Category A scholarships) than for European masters students (Category B scholarships)
The monthly allowance amount may be increased in order to help cover the additional costs of students with special needs.
For further information please visit the Education, Audiovisual Culture Executive Agency's website: eacea.ec.europa.eu

More information:  http://www.docnomads.eu/