Poland- Rwanda Government Scholarship 2024-2025 at Higher Education Council (HEC)

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

POLAND GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ( 2024 - 2025)

The Higher Education Council (HEC) wishes to inform the public that through the bilateral cooperation between the Government of Rwanda and the Government of Poland, the latter has offered scholarships to Rwandan eligible students in Master’s Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for the academic year 2024 - 2025 Interested candidates are advised to visit the link : 

I. SCOPE OF THE CALL

Pursuant to article 19 section 1 of the Act on the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange of July 7, 2017. The Director of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange announces a call for applications for participation in the Professor Stefan Banach Programme (hereinafter referred to as the “Programme”) - scholarships for second-cycle studies from the winter semester 2024/25.

II. PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION

2.1. Programme objective

The programme aims at supporting the socio-economic development of developing countries by improving the level of education and professional qualifications of citizens of countries eligible to participate in the programme by offering a scholarship to undertake second-cycle studies in Poland.

The offer is addressed to citizens of the following countries: Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Montenegro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Philippines, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Colombia, Kosovo, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia.

The programme is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange implemented as part of the Polish development cooperation programme.

2.2. Eligible Applicants

Foreigners who, at the time of the call, meet all of the following criteria can apply for a scholarship in the Programme:

1) are citizens of one of the following countries: Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia;

2) do not have Polish citizenship and have not submitted an application for Polish citizenship;

3) plan to start second-cycle studies or a preparatory course in the winter semester of the academic year 2024/25 (from October 2024);

4) at the time of submitting an application to the Programme, are students of the last semester of first-cycle studies in the Programme country or obtained a diploma of completion of first-cycle studies in the Programme country no earlier than in 2022.

5) have not previously obtained a diploma of completion of second-cycle studies or uniform master's studies[1];

6) have not yet received a scholarship from the NAWA Director (NAWA scholarship) under the Programme,

7) have documented knowledge of:

a) Polish at the level of:

- min. A2 if they plan to take a one-year preparatory course preceding second-cycle studies in Polish;

- min. B2 if they plan to start second-cycle studies in Polish;

or

b) English at the level of at least B2 if they plan to start second-cycle studies in English.

 2.3. Thematic scope of activities implemented under the Programme

The Programme makes it possible you to receive a scholarship for full-time second-cycle studies conducted in Polish or English at universities supervised by the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

Moreover, in public universities, the Programme provides free education. Studies in Polish may be preceded by a one-year NAWA preparatory course conducted on scholarship terms.

At the stage of applying for funds under the Programme, the applicant selects one of the scholarship paths:

1) Polish-language path (for studies in Polish):

a) preparatory course and second-cycle studies or

b) second-cycle studies in Polish (without a preparatory course).

The NAWA preparatory course preceding studies in Poland lasts one academic year and its aim is to deepen the knowledge of the Polish language and knowledge of subjects related to the planned field of study. Applicants qualified to participate in the programme complete courses at the center indicated by NAWA. Assignment to centers offering a preparatory course depends in particular on the field of planned studies and the availability of places in the centers.

2) English-language path (for studies in English) - second-cycle studies in English and a Polish language and culture course.

Implementation of the course (Polish language and culture) for scholarship holders who will study in English. The course consists of a part to be completed before studies or in the first month of studies and a part to be completed during the 2025 summer holidays. The courses will be held in a hybrid formula (online and on-site).

The choice of the education path takes place at the stage of accepting applications for the Programme and is binding throughout the entire period of participation in the Programme.

The choice of the field of study is made by the Applicant based on the offer of universities supervised by the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Information about studies in Poland can be found at https://study.gov.pl/. Information about fields of study (offer of Polish universities) is available at: https://studia.gov.pl/wybierz-studia.

NAWA does not mediate in the admission of Applicants to studies. Applicants should take part in admission procedure to the selected university on their own and independently of the application submitted in the Programme.

 2.4. Deadline and other conditions for submitting the application

Application submission deadline

The call for applications will be conducted until June 27, 2024 at 3:00:00 local time (Warsaw) or until 400 applications are submitted in a given group of countries (the call will be closed after the aforementioned deadline, or earlier for a given group of countries if 400 applications are submitted in it).

How to submit an application

Only in electronic form in the Agency's IT system, //FILL IN THE APPLICATION//

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