The application period for 2022 is April 01 - May 01. Electronic submission window closes automatically at 23:59 EET on May 01.
The Estonian national scholarships are intended to support participation in summer courses of Estonian language and culture as well as in courses of summer and winter schools related to the English-language curricula of degree study in Estonia. The scholarships are administered by the Education and Youth Board.
Scholarship amount
The scholarship is used to reimburse up to 500 EUR of the course fee and accommodation costs of 25 EUR per day for a maximum of 28 days per secondment in a calendar year.
In the 2022 summer school application round, students can apply for the scholarship to participate in online courses. The scholarship covers the course fee up to 500 euros.
Courses eligible for scholarship application
The list of summer school courses:
Tartu University
Contemporary Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
Educational Change in Times of Rapid Technological Innovation
Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture: Contemporary Applications
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Practical Training in Digital Product Management and Design Thinking
Out of Enchantment: Fairy Tales in Pop-Culture and History
The Politics of Popular Culture
Metabarcoding: from lab to bioinformatics
Imagining intelligent technologies
Introduction to near real-time data analytics
The semiotics of pop culture and human and other-than-human relations
Rethinking enlargement from Western Balkans to Eastern Neighbourhood
Love and Sex in Digital World: philosophy, ethics and theology
Estonian Language Summer Courses with instruction in English
Tallinn University
Design of Digital Services for Health Behaviour Change
Experimental Interaction Design
The Formation of Global Norms in a Changing World Order
Period and conditions
The stipend is available for students of Bachelor’s, Master’s or doctoral studies in foreign universities who are actively involved in the studies at the time of application and have been studying at university for at least one year.
During the period of payment of grant the scholarship recipient should stay in Estonia (except when participating in an online course).
The candidate should pre-register to the course before applying for the scholarship.
Application procedure and deadlines
The application period for 2021 is April 01 - May 01. Electronic submission window closes automatically at 23:59 EET on May 01.
Please submit the following documents:
- application form and motivation letter through online application system (please register to start the application);
- confirmation of admission from the organizing higher education institution in Estonia (can be sent by e-mail) or confirmation of submission of required admission documents;
- confirmation of registration from home university containing information on the applicant's level of study, normal period of studies and progress towards the degree;
- copy of passport or ID-card.
All documents should be in English or Estonian. Documents must be translated to any of these languages if the language of issuance is different. Applications which are not fully completed, drawn up as required or include false information or are submitted with a delay are not assessed.
The candidate should pre-register to the course before applying for the scholarship.
Contacts:
Education and Youth Board: Liis Uulman, liis.uulman@harno.ee (Scholarship coordinator)
Tallinn University: tss@tlu.ee
Tallinn University of Technology: summerschools@taltech.ee
University of Tartu: info@isu.ut.ee
Estonian Academy of Arts: summeracademy@artun.ee