The University of Barcelona has launched a call for scholarships 2024-2025 to support refugees and people from conflict zones.
What is this call for?
The scholarship lasts one academic year (2024-2025) and covers the tuition fee of the Transition course to university studies (Spanish and Catalan language and Human rights course), full board accommodation (in shared rooms) and holistic support. This scholarship could be expanded if the student passes the transition course and if they are admitted in a UB master’s degree or UB bachelor’s degree (second cycle) (academic year 2025-2026) following the renewal procedure. Likewise, in cases of two-year master and last year of bachelor’s degree (second cycle), under previous request to the UBSF and completed academic performance and correctly administrative situation, the scholarship will be extended for the academic year 2026-2027.
Who can apply?
This scholarship is aimed at university students who are affected by armed conflict and violence, are in a situation of vulnerability in terms of human, economic and social rights, reside in a non-EU country and wish to continue their university studies.
Additionally, in view of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially after 7 October 2023, priority will also be given to applications from Palestinian candidates who, at the time of applying for the grant, are in one of the following circumstances:
- Residents in the occupied Palestinian territories;
- Refugees under UNRWA protection or are recipients of UNRWA support;
- Residents in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and, at the time of applying for this grant, outside these Territories as beneficiaries of a scholarship awarded during the 2022-2023 academic year, and are unable to return there.
What are the eligibility criteria?
To be eligible, applicants must meet all requirements. Some of them are:
- Be in a refugee or refugee-like situation, as defined by the UNHCR;
- Be in a situation of vulnerability in terms of the effective exercise of Human, Economic and Social Rights and provide evidence;
- Have no prior knowledge of either Spanish or Catalan;
- Be aged 26 or younger at the time of the deadline for submitting applications;
- Sufficiently proof, as required by the University of Barcelona, having carried out university studies and/or hold a university degree that allows access to an official, non-inter university master’s degree at the UB or to the last two years (second cycle) of the UB-specific bachelor’s degree at UB’s own centers;
- Apply for admission to official and non-inter university master’s degree programs or to the last two years of the second cycle of bachelor’s degree courses offered by UB faculties and schools, excluding affiliated centers and the degrees in Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Psychology;
- Explicitly manifest a social commitment and a commitment to Global Justice.
For further details and information, together with the detailed eligibility criteria, you will find here the call for applications.The application must be sent through the application form.
Deadline for applications: June 12th, 2024 at midnight (CEST).
