Roma Education Fund is excited to announce our annual call for scholarship applications for the Roma Memorial University Scholarship Program (RMUSP) is now open. RMUSP is the largest Roma scholarship program of its kind, supporting students in pursuing their tertiary education in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo* North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Turkey.
The 2020/2021 scholarship cycle has a number of new elements incorporated into the RMUSP scholarship scheme and application process:
- Short biography/introduction – Roma Education Fund would like to showcase their scholarship recipients on its website with a short introduction and photo. Students are asked to write an introduction of themselves no longer than 200 words. The short introduction will appear under each student’s photo if they are selected to become a scholarship beneficiary.
- Applicants shortlisted for beneficiaries will be requested to submit a photo, which will be attached next to their short introduction on REF’s website.
- Letter of Intent written as a statement of purpose about your potential to excel in your field, and why REF National Selection Board members should consider you for a scholarship.
(More details in the guidelines below and OAF page 4) - Recommendation letters are no longer required. However, applicants are still required to provide a reference person with contact details at the end of the Letter of Intent (page 4 in OAF).
- Submission of Consent Form reflecting applicants consent to how REF stores, uses, and processes applicants’ personal data.
The deadline for applications are as follows:
- Deadline: 15th June 2020 for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Kosovo*
- Deadline: 17th June 2020 for North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Turkey
For details on how to apply and a breakdown of the scholarship criteria with the new introductions, please carefully read the RMUSP Scholarship Guidelines.
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
