Swedish-Turkish Scholarship Programme, 2022

The Swedish Institute is offering scholarships to support advanced level studies and research to forge closer links between Turkey and the EU.

Eligibility 

• The applicants for Swedish-Turkish Scholarship Programme, 2022 should be nationals of Turkey.
• The candidates are expected to be Ph.D. students or postdoctoral researchers conducting the part of their research or studies in Sweden in the social science field.
• Ph.D. students applying for a part of their Ph.D. studies to be carried out in Sweden are eligible to apply.
• Postdoctoral researchers can also apply but those who hold a Ph.D. degree frOM 2015 or later will be given preference.
• The candidates who lived in Sweden for two or more years, who have a permanent residence permit in Sweden, and who have been awarded more than three scholarships from SI are not eligible.

Selection Criteria

• The applicants for Swedish-Turkish Scholarship Programme, 2022 will be assessed based on their academic background and the host department's expertise in the project field.
• The candidates will also be evaluated based on their personal motivation, and research proposal's strength with regards to its originality, methodological approach, scientific quality, and relevance.
• The applicants will also be judged based on their study purpose, academic fields, universities, gender, and nationality.

Documents required

• The candidates applying for Swedish-Turkish Scholarship Programme, 2022 should submit an invitation letter from a Swedish university department, curriculum vitae of the supervisor including publications list.
• The applicants should also submit their curriculum vitae not exceeding three pages, university transcripts, English language certificates, and contact details of two references.
• The candidates are required to submit a research proposal not more than 6 pages, describing the project's scientific quality and its originality.
• The applicants should also submit an abstract outlining the summary of the research proposal in maximum 1,500 characters.

Value of the scholarship

The recipients of Swedish-Turkish Scholarship Programme, 2022 get SEK 15,000 per month for Ph.D. students and SEK 18,000 per month for postdoctoral researchers and senior scientists.