The
University of Groningen has a long academic tradition extending back to
1614, which makes Groningen the oldest university in the Netherlands
after Leiden. Many very talented people in a variety of disciplines have
studied or worked at the university during the 390 years of its
existence, including a Nobel Prize winner, the first female University
student in the Netherlands and the first female lecturer, the first
Dutch astronaut and the first president of the European Bank. They share
their academic roots with more than 200,000 other people who have
attended the University of Groningen as students, lecturers or research
workers.University of Groningen Talent Grant: Eric Bleumink Fund
University of Groningen offers scholarship,Eric Bleumink Fund, for a 1 year or 2 years Master’s degree programme which covers tuition fee, costs of international travel, subsistence, books, and health insurance.
Purposes:Master programme, Master (MSc/MA/LL.M.)
Countries of origin: click the link for list of countries eligible.Nepal included
Eligible candidates:
Criteria for approval are: (a) academic excellence, shown by academic performance and may be confirmed by letters of recommendation from university professors; (b) contribution of candidate’s education in terms of strengthening the scientific capacity in the candidate’s home country; (c) perspectives to a long-term linkage between the home institution and the University of Groningen.
Deadline: January 15th, 2015. (opening call: October 15th, 2014)
Application: To be nominated the student needs to be (conditionally) admitted to one of the Master's programmes. Nominations will be handled by the admissions officers.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free, open, online courses. You
can enroll for every course you have interest in. Your age or prior
education does not matter - everybody can participate! You can decide
for yourself when you want to work on the courses and what amount of
time you would like to spend on them.
In
September 2014, the University of Groningen launched its first free
online course called ‘Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World’.
In Spring 2015 the following courses followed: ‘Introduction to Dutch’, ‘Religion and Conflict’, and ‘Why do we Age? The Molecular Mechanisms of Ageing’.
All-in-all over 80,000 students worldwide have joined one or more of
our free courses on the British online learning platform FutureLearn
(part of the Open University).
MOOCs
are very useful for the University of Groningen as they are a valuable
addition to our existing courses and enables our educators and
researchers to reach a global audience. The university’s aims for MOOCs are to:
It is important to visit official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.
Official Scholarship Website link below:
Erik Bleumink Scholarships from University of Groningen, Nethelands
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