Each year, the Directorate General for Interpretation (DG Interpretation, also known as SCIC) offers a number of bursaries.

DG Interpretation study bursaries are available to students of all disciplines who have been accepted for a full-time postgraduate training course in conference interpreting offered by a recognised university or university-level institution.

 

Eligibility

• Nationals of an EU Member State or of one of the candidate countries;
• Have a university degree or equivalent qualification, or are in the final year of a course leading to a university degree or equivalent qualification,
• yHave applied or intend to apply for a full Master/postgraduate course in conference interpreting offered for the year 2023/2024 by a recognised university or university-level institution. For courses that last more than one year, only final year students will be eligible
• Pay/have paid a tuition fee for the academic year 2023/2024 (final year of your Master/Postgraduate course).
• Be registered with one of the following active languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Portuguese, Slovak or Slovene

or

• Be registered with one of the active language in your course with a retour into English, French or German: Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish or Swedish

Your passive languages and/or retour language in line with the preferential profiles as published here.

The bursary will amount to the equivalent of the tuition fee for academic year 2023-2024, with a ceiling amount of EUR 3 000.

How to apply

Fill the application form 2023/2024 and upload all the following documents:

1. a copy of their passport or ID;

2. a detailed CV, in French, German or English, listing all their qualifications (the use of the ‘Europass’ template is compulsory);

3. a short motivation letter (between 250 and 500 words), written in their mother tongue;

4. a scanned copy of the completed university information form;

5. the form related to their bank details, duly signed and dated (please read carefully the instructions given in the footnotes on the form);

6. the legal entity form, duly signed and dated, and

7. a copy of their last university degree.

 

Deadline: 21 September 2023, 17:00 (Brussels time).

 

Find out more here.