The tuition fee scholarship is offered to students who do everything well in advance!

 

Conditions for receiving the scholarship:

• Enroll in one of our programs (European Studies or Contemporary Germany Studies) before June 30, 2024;
• Take at least 50% of the credit points required for graduation in your first year – 19 credits (not including German language beginners' courses. Students of the Program in Contemporary Germany Studies who have to take German beginners' courses, will need to register for at least 23 credits to receive the scholarship);
• Attend all classes and submit assignments on time;
• Scholarship recipients are obligated to participate in the program's events: conferences, colloquium meetings, guest lectures, meetings with donors, etc.

 

How much of the tuition does the scholarship cover?

Students of the Program in European Studies can receive 50% of the 1^st-year annual tuition fee.

Students of the Program in Contemporary Germany Studies can receive full coverage of the tuition for two years. Successful completion of the first year’s courses, fulfilling the above obligations, and registration for the remaining required credit points in the second year, are conditions for the continuation of the scholarship for a second year.

Link to information about the tuition rates

 

Please note:

Scholarship receivers will still have to pay the tuition, but receive a few scholarship installments throughout the year, eventually covering the tuition.

The European Forum offers scholarships to outstanding students in its study programs – European Studies and Contemporary Germany Studies.

The call for applications is sent exclusively to our candidates and students each year during the summer vacation.

The scholarship is granted based on academic achievements, a personal motivation letter, and a reference letter from a professor who taught the applicant in her/his previous studies.

 

Yes! You can receive the European Forum Distinction Scholarship in addition to the tuition fee scholarship.

 

The scholarship recipients are obligated to:

• Participate in the European Forum's events: conferences, colloquium meetings, guest lectures, meetings with donors, etc;
• 1^st-year students: Take at least 50% of the credit points required for graduation – 19 credits (not including German language beginners' courses. Students of the Program in Contemporary Germany Studies who have to take German beginners' courses, will need to register for at least 23 credits to receive the scholarship);
• 2^nd-year students: Register for the remaining credit points required for graduation;
• Attend all classes and submit assignments on time.

 

This scholarship is offered to excellent doctoral students of the European Forum.

It includes up to 60,000 NIS per year, up to four years, financial support for research travel, and a designated work space.

 

Our doctoral scholarship recipients are required to:

• be present at the European Forum at least three days per week – Monday, Wednesday, and another day of your choice;
• actively participate in at least 80% of meetings of the year-long European Forum Colloquium;
• present their research project in at least one international workshop or conference during stage A and another such activity during stage B;
• participate in European Forum events, such as EF conferences, guest lectures, student recruitment events, meetings with donors, and alike. Doctoral students may also be called upon to serve as formal and informal mentors for MA students.
• actively participate for at least one year in the doctoral training program offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences.

 

Read all about our PhD program

 

 

The European Forum offers its students the opportunity to go for an exchange semester abroad at one of our partner universities in Germany or Austria.

The students receive a monthly scholarship of 850 Euro and travel expenses.

 

Link to calls

 

The European Forum offers research scholarships of 10,000 NIS each, for research on topics related to:

• Germany after 1945 \ Germany & the EU \ Germany & Israel
• Politics, culture, history and society of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
• Italian Culture and Society
• Literature, Culture and Thought in France and in the Francophone Worlds
• Jewish Life, Culture, and History in Relation to the City of Vienna 

 

Research-track MA, PhD and postdoctoral students are invited to apply. This scholarship supports research projects related to Europe, also those conducted outside the European Forum, in other departments in the Faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.

Link to calls

Each year, the Center for Austrian Studies at the European Forum awards scholarships to study the German language in Austria, in intensive courses of 3 weeks to 2 months.

The Prof. Dr. Peter Landesmann scholarships are funded by the host institutes and the Friends of the Hebrew University in Austria, and supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, and the National Bank of Austria.

In 2024, we offer scholarships to summer courses at the University of Vienna (1 to 2 months), the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt (3 weeks), the University of Innsbruck (3 weeks), and the Johannes Kepler University Linz (3 weeks).

All Hebrew University students, from all degrees and faculties, are eligible to apply.

 

Link to call

Our study programs offer courses that are study excursions in Europe, which last between one and two weeks. It is usually required to take a prerequisite course before going on an excursion.

The European Forum subsidizes most of the cost of participating in the excursions. The cost for participating students: up to 600 euros.

Most excursions are open to MA and 3rd-year BA students from other departments. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that their department will acknowledge the credit points earned from the excursion and the prerequisite course.

 

Past excursions for example:

• Study Excursion to the EU Institutions (prerequisite: course 54800 – Introduction to the European Union: A Unique Supranational Beast)
• New Challenges for Liberalism in the Old Continent (prerequisite: course 54836 – Europe from the In- and the Outside – What you see from here, you don´t see from there)
• Germany and France: From Wars to Reconciliation and Beyond. A Study Trip to Berlin and Paris (prerequisite: course 54808 – The Core of Europe: History and Challenges of the Franco-German Friendship)
• Social and Cultural History in the Heart of Europe – to the Mountain Region Oetztal (Tyrol, Austria and Italy)

 

To register, please contact us:

European Forum at the Hebrew University
Faculty of Humanities Building, Rooms 42603-4
Email: mseuro@mail.huji.ac.il
Mira: 02-5883286 / Ateret: 02-5883866 / Elisheva: 02-5881969

 

Joint study excursions to Tyrol (Austria and Italy) with the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, 2021: Social and Cultural History in the Heart of Europe