SWEDISH SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT

The scholarships are intended for full-time master’s level studies in Sweden and cover both living
costs and tuition fees. The programme offers about 12 scholarships for the academic year
2016/2017. The exact number of scholarships depends on the quality and length of the applied
study period of all applications received.
Scholarship application period: 1–13 February 2016.
Please note that the scholarship application is separate from the application to the master’s
programmes at Swedish universities. Make sure to complete your application to the master’s
programmes that you wish to apply to before the deadline 15 January 2016. You apply through
the national online application service universityadmissions.se. Pay your application fee to
University Admissions before the fee deadline 1 February 2016. Please make sure to check for
any updates at universityadmissions.se.
Once submitted, your application to the master’s programme will be assigned a personal
application number consisting of six digits. You must use this application number when applying
for a Swedish Institute scholarship (scholarship application period 1–13 February 2016). You will
be required to submit a motivation letter, a letter of reference and a Europass style CV with your
scholarship application. These enclosures can be prepared well in advance of the actual
scholarship application period. Kindly note that no other documents than the mandatory
enclosures will be considered.
The Swedish Institute is looking for applicants who display both intellectual ability and leadership
potential and welcome applicants regardless of age, gender and religious beliefs. The scholarship
programme aims for diversity among the scholarship holders.
General notes
You may apply to a maximum of four different master’s programmes in total, but make sure to
first check whether the programmes are listed as eligible for the scholarship.
Applications must be submitted online with enclosures in any of the following formats: .doc,
.docx, or .pdf.
All application documents must be submitted by the application deadline. Late documents will
not be considered.
Limit your documents to the numbers or characters specified. Texts that exceed this limit will not
be considered.
Exclude photos of yourself from your CV.
As a Swedish public authority, the Swedish Institute (SI) operates under the Swedish Principle of
Public Access to Information. This means that any data registered in our systems will be treated
as a public document. In accordance with this, information about your application and
qualifications will be accessible to the public on request.
Steps to complete your Swedish Institute scholarship application:
Prepare a motivation letter according to the Swedish Institute template. Motivation letters in any
other templates or formats are NOT valid. Make sure to read the questions in the motivation
letter thoroughly and be specific and personal in your reasoning. Without exception, answers may
not exceed the allowed number of characters (letters and spaces) for each question. Download
the mandatory SI template in Word/Word 97-2003.
Prepare a Curriculum Vitae (CV) in English using the Europass format of maximum three pages.
Additional pages will not be considered. Any CV submitted in another format than Europass is
NOT valid. We also ask you not to insert any photos of yourself in the CV.
Prepare a letter of reference. It is recommended to use the Swedish Institute template for the
academic year 2016/2017. Download the recommended SI template.
When the Swedish Institute scholarship application period opens on 1 February 2016, apply
through our online system. Use the personal application number retrieved from
universityadmissions.se. Do not forget to submit your enclosures.
The scholarship application form will be available on this page during the application period 1–13
February 2016.

Please note that you need to submit a separate copy of your scholarship application for each
eligible master’s programme that you have applied to. For example, if you have applied to the
maximum of four master’s programmes, you must submit four separate online scholarship
applications. Each application must have a motivation letter, a letter of reference, and a CV
attached. You may use the same for all applications, or create unique ones for each programme.
Key dates and deadlines for applications to the academic year 2016/2017
1 December 2015–15 January 2016: Apply online to master’s programmes at
universityadmissions.se and pay the application fee
1 February 2016: Deadline to submit supporting documents and payment of application fee. For
detailed information see universityadmissions.se
1–13 February 2016: Apply for a Swedish Institute scholarship through the online application
service (application opens 1 February 2016)
29 March 2016: Notification of selection results published at universityadmissions.se
12 April 2016: List of successful candidates for Swedish Institute scholarships is published at si.se
14 April 2016: Deadline for accepting your study place
13-17 April 2016: Swedish Institute formal scholarship offer to successful candidates by email
30 April 2016: Deadline for accepting the Swedish Institute scholarship.
Required documentation for all master's applicants
In order to complete your admissions application, you must send in the following documents
after submitting your online application for courses and programmes.
Please do not submit documents that are not listed here, unless they are required by the
university to which you are applying.
1. Certificates and diplomas of your completed bachelor's degree from an internationally
recognised higher education institution (university or university college).
Note #1: The original documents must be issued by a representative of the Academic Registrar's
Office, the Examinations Office, or the equivalent office that issues official transcripts of records
at your university. Please submit "certified true copies" of these documents.
Note #2: You must submit a copy of your documents in the original language. If your
documents are in a language other than Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, French or
German, you must also provide an official translation. This translation should be in one of the
following languages: Swedish, English, French or German.
2. Transcripts of completed courses and grades for each semester (including course list) from
your bachelor's programme. If possible, sort them in reverse chronological order, i. e. the most
recent on top.
Note #1: You must submit a copy of your documents in the original language. If your
documents are in a language other than Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, French or
German, you must also provide an official translation. This translation should be in one of the
following languages: Swedish, English, French or German.
Note #2: If your degree was awarded in Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, or
the USA, your transcript of record must be sent directly from your university. If you send it
yourself, it will not be accepted. Do not send your cover sheet to the university/universities you
have previously attended and requested transcripts from. If they send your transcripts to
University Admissions in Sweden with your cover sheet, your documents will be rejected.
Note #3: If your degree was awarded in Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Bhutan, you cannot scan
and upload your academic documents - they must be submitted via regular post to University
Admissions.
Note #4: Certain countries have specific requirements regarding what documents are required
and how they should be submitted. Please see Checking for special instructions for more
information.
Note #5: The original documents must be issued by a representative of the Academic Registrar's
Office, the Examinations Office, or the equivalent office that issues official transcripts of records
at your university. Please submit certified true copies of these documents.
3. Proof of English language skills
4. Proof that you meet the specific entry requirements (your university's website will have
information regarding the specific entry requirements for the course or programme you have
applied to, be sure to check there for what is required).
5. In order to speed up the processing of your application, we require a copy of the page in your
passport with your personal data and photograph, or some other identification document.
6. Signed Cover sheet only when submitting documents via regular post (Students with a Swedish
personal identification number need only supply that number on any documentation they submit
to University Admissions in Sweden; for them, a cover sheet is not required.) A cover sheet is not
required when uploading documents. Please make the cover sheet the first document in the
document package you submit via regular post to University Admissions.