Semmelweis University’s Center of International Training Programs calls for applications for the „ISSA/DSVS Public Participation Scholarship” for the fall semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

The detailed terms and conditions of the scholarship are set out in the official Call for Applications. The main details are summarised below:

Conditions for application

Eligible candidates are full-time students with an active status, who are enrolled in the undivided English- or German-language program in general medicine, dentistry or pharmaceutical science.

Applications can be submitted to fill the following positions and/or to fulfil the respective tasks:

  1. presidents, vice-presidents
  2. supporting positions
  3. faculty representatives, year representatives
  4. project contributors

Applications must contain the following:

  • indication of one of the above categories based on the position/title held, tasks carried out, as well as a report on the activities carried out in the first semester of the academic year 2024/25 (maximum one A4 page, in English or German)

Applicants must provide the necessary data for their identification and for the verification of their eligibility (name, Neptun ID, year, faculty); failure to do so will result in the application being rejected.

An application cannot be submitted by individuals who, during previous application cycles, have been found by the evaluation committee or other authorized university personnel (e.g., the ethics committee) to have provided false information or misled the reviewers in any way.

Deadline for Submitting Applications

Applications can be submitted by sending an e-mail with all the required documents specified in section 1 above to the address titkarsag.nhkk@semmelweis.hu by 31 January 2025.

Amount of the scholarship for each category (for the fall semester of the academic year 2024/2025):

Category I: 400,000 – 500,000 HUF/student

Category II: 300,000 – 399,000 HUF/student

Category III: 150,000 – 299,000 HUF/student

Category IV: 40,000 – 149,000 HUF/student

For successful applicants, the payment is subject to the condition that the beneficiary has a bank account number suitable for receiving HUF, set as default in the Neptun system.

Payment of the scholarships awarded will be made within one month of the date of the evaluation of the applications. Public participation scholarships for the first semester of the academic year 2024/25 are available for each organisation (ISSA or DSVS) up to a maximum amount of 5,500,000 HUF.