The Roma Education Fund’s tertiary education Scholarship Program (REF SP) currently is open and accepting applications for its scholarship competition for 2017-18 academic year.
The Roma Education Fund’s tertiary education Scholarship Program (REF SP) currently is open and accepting applications for its scholarship competition for 2017-18 academic year.
Program rationale and philosophy
The main goal of REF SP is to contribute to the emergence of a critical mass of Roma, higher education graduates, confident and proud of their Roma identity, academically and socially adept, equipped with skills and competences that enable them to become professionals in their fields, as well as remain solidly connected to the Roma community and support its further advancement and inclusion into the wider society.
REF SP offers merit-based open competition academic scholarships for Roma students pursuing Bachelor, Master or Doctorate degrees at state-accredited universities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
REF SP scholarship schemes
- Roma Memorial University Scholarship Program (RMUSP)
- Law and Humanities Program (LHP)
- Roma Health Scholarship Program (RHSP)
- Roma International Scholar Program (RISP)
Full details on how to apply to REF SP can be found by accessing the Application Guidelines on the following pages, available in REF SP program countries’ languages:
[English] [Gjuha shqipe] [Български] [Bosanski] [Crnogorski jezik] [Hrvatski] [Čeština] [Magyar] [Македонски] [Română] [Русский] [Srpski] [Slovenský] [Türkçe] [Українська]
*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.
