Maastricht University – UM Brightlands Talent Scholarship

Deadline: 1st February, 2022

About

Four innovation campuses in Limburg, the Netherlands, form the Brightlands. The Brightlands campi bring together entrepreneurs, researchers and students to innovate and create international breakthroughs together in chemistry and materials, health, agrifood, data science and smart digital services.

Details

The UM Brightlands Talent Scholarship programme offers four full coverage scholarships (including a tuition fee waiver and monthly stipend) per academic year for a selected number of top-performing non-EU/EEA students with personal development potential that have been (conditionally) admitted to a master programme connected to the Brightlands campi.

A mandatory component of the UM Brightlands Talent Scholarship is participating in the thesis-internship-programme (TIP), requiring scholarship recipients to write their thesis based on an internship at one of the companies at the respective Brightlands campus.

Target group

 top-performing non-EU/EEA master’s students with high personal development potential that have been (conditionally) admitted to a master programme connected to the Brightlands campi and with a substantiated motivation to contribute to the campuses’ development.

Selection procedure

• Step 1: The UM International Services Desk checks if all applications are complete after 1 February 2022.
• Step 2: The UM International Services Desk sends all complete applications to the respective UM Faculty in February 2022.
• Step 3: The Faculty Admission Office – in cooperation with the respective programme coordinator(s) – ranks your application based on the UM scholarship selection criteria and proposes a top-5 to the Brightlands Talent Scholarship selection committee.
• Step 4: The Brightlands Talent Scholarship selection committee (composed of a representatives of UM, the Brightlands campus management and the province of Limburg) invites the top-5 applicants for an online interview, following which a decision is taken. In case you are not selected, you will be added to a reserve list in case the selected candidate(s) decline(s) the scholarship.
• Step 5: The UM International Services Desk will inform all candidates of their application status in April 2022. Your status will be selected, waitlisted or rejected by the beginning of May 2022 at the latest. Waitlisted application statuses will be changed to selected or rejected by May 2022.
• Step 6: You must sign and return the award letter to the UM International Services Desk to accept the scholarship.

Eligibility

All candidates must meet the following requirements:

• You hold the nationality of a country outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland and meet the requirements for obtaining an entry visa and residence permit for the Netherlands
• You do not hold a double nationality from an EU/EEA country or Switzerland
• You have never participated in a degree-seeking higher education programme in the Netherlands. Students who have completed exchange programmes in the Netherlands are welcome to apply
• You are not older than 35 years of age on 1 September 2022
• You agree to become an active Brightlands and UM ambassador during and after your studies, by committing to share your experiences during at least one (information) session for students and/or other stakeholders
• You have have been (conditionally) admitted to the participating one-year master programmes at UM for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Benefits

• Living expenses
• Health and Liability Insurance
• Visa application costs
• Tuition fees

Application

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