Scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs are offered to foreign nationals who wish to attend undergraduate or postgraduate studies in Greece for the academic year 2015-2016 as well as a seminar in Greek Language and Civilization for the summer of 2015.

Granted scholarships per country.

Azerbaijan

Three scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Armenia

Three scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Belgium (French community)

One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Bulgaria

a) One scholarship for full course of undergraduate and postgraduate studies

b) One scholarship for specialization studies or research of 10-month duration

c) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Estonia

2 scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Israel

a) One scholarship of ten months maximum duration for postgraduate studies or research

b) One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Jordan

a) One scholarship of 12 months duration for undergraduate studies in any sector except for Medicine

b) One scholarship of ten months maximum duration for postgraduate studies or research in any sector except for Medicine.

c) One scholarship of twelve months maximum duration for undergraduate studies or of ten months duration for postgraduate studies in the sector of Greek Literature.

d) One scholarship of twelve months maximum duration for undergraduate studies or of ten months maximum duration for postgraduate studies for Jordanian citizens with Greek bonds or being members of the Jordan Christian community (the Greek Ambassador in Jordan shall participate in the final selection of the candidates of this category).

e) One scholarship for postgraduate studies of ten months duration for primary/secondary school teachers in order to attend further training in the sector of new technologies and methods of teaching methodology. The number of the above scholarships includes both new scholarship as well as any perchance renewed scholarships with priority given to the latter.

China

a) Three scholarships of 10-month duration each for postgraduate studies or research

b) Scholarships for learning the Greek language the duration of which shall be announced by subsequent document.

Croatia

a) Ten months scholarship for postgraduate studies or up to ten months for research

b) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek language and civilization

Cyprus

a) One scholarship of ten months maximum duration  for postgraduate studies or research. This number includes both the new scholarship and the renewal of an old scholarship with priority given to the second one.

b) One scholarship of ten months maximum duration for postgraduate studies intended for a permanent teacher in primary or secondary education.

Latvia

a) One scholarship of ten months duration for postgraduate studies or research

b) One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization.

Mexico

a) Ten months scholarship for postgraduate studies or research. The duration of the scholarship may vary from five to ten months

b) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization.

Norway

One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization.

South Korea

One scholarship of ten months duration for postgraduate studies or research

Hungary

a) One scholarship of ten months duration for postgraduate studies or research

b) Three scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Ukraine

One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Poland

a) Ten-month scholarship for postgraduate studies or research

b) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Romania

One scholarship of ten-month duration for postgraduate studies or research

Serbia

a) Twenty months for research to be respectively allocated to the candidates. The minimum duration of scholarship may be five months and the maximum duration ten months.

b) Five scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Slovakia

a) Ten months scholarship for postgraduate studies or research. The duration of each scholarship may vary from five to ten months.

b) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Slovenia

a) One scholarship of ten months maximum duration for postgraduate studies or research

b) One scholarship for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Turkey

a) Two scholarships for research of ten months maximum duration each

b) One scholarship for research of up to ten months duration that will be granted to a graduate of the Department of Classical Studies of the Istanbul University

c) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization and one seminar for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization to a graduate of the Department of Classical Studies of the Istanbul University

Czech Republic

a) Ten months scholarship for postgraduate studies of research. The duration of each scholarship may vary from five to ten months

b) Two scholarships for attending summer seminar in Greek Language and Civilization

Financial allowances to undergraduate and postgraduate scholars

a) Monthly allowance:

400 euros for scholarship holders following undergraduate studies and 450 euros for scholarship holders following postgraduate studies of research

b) One-off allowance for settlement expenses

500 euros for those who settle in Athens and 550 euros for those who settle in other regions around Greece. Scholarship holders whose scholarship is being renewed are not entitled to this amount.

c) One-off amount of 150 euros annually for covering transportation expenses within the country for postgraduate students or researchers who are obliged to move from their place of residence in order to follow the research program approved by our Service and as long as there is a justified proposal by the Supervising Professor.

d) Exemption from tuition fees only for undergraduate students.

e) Scholarship holders for postgraduate studies or research who wish to follow Greek language courses as well shall not be exempted from tuition fees.

f) Free medical treatment in case of an emergency, only in Public Hospitals.

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