The Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) is inviting applications for the Liese Prokop Scholarship for asylum seekers in the 2020/21 session.

The Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) supports committed asylum-seeking students with very good academic success who do not receive state funding in Austria and who demonstrably need financial support to study, with the Liese Prokop Scholarship to complete their studies and enter the Austrian labour market.

Worth of Award

  • This is a full scholarship

Eligibility

Students entitled to asylum,

  • in extraordinary studies, which are preparing for one or more supplementary examinations (e.g. by attending a pre-study course), with an initial enrollment at a university or university of applied sciences in Austria before the age of 30,
  • in the nostrification process

Method of Application

Please send the following documents with your application (collected in an e-mail, but individual scans / copies attached):

  • Completed and signed  application for funding (see download area)
  • Identity card (residence card for those entitled to asylum, convention passport)
  • Registration slip
  • E-card (social security number)
  • Asylum notice
  • if already available: valid letter of admission to a university or a technical college in Austria or a valid nostrification letter

The application can only be processed if all documents are submitted in full and together with the signed application for funding.

Click here for more details and to apply

Deadline: Apply May 4th and June 12th, 2020