Scholarships

A small percentage of students is admitted to programmes free of charge in the framework of bilateral governmental agreements on cooperation in the field of education (offered by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic) or within the framework of the Foreign Development Aid (offered by the Government of the Czech Republic). Information about these possibilities is available at the website of the Ministry of Education and through Czech Embassies and Consulates abroad.

Some Czech higher education institutions grant scholarships for excellent study results or in cases of hard circumstances of a student. Please contact the institution of your choice for detailed information.

The EU Erasmus Mundus Programme offers scholarships for highly qualified students and scholars to follow a selected Erasmus Mundus Master and Doctorate course or to carry out teaching and research assignments in the course. Download the list of Erasmus Mundus master courses offered by Czech universities.

The International Visegrad Fund (IVF) was founded on 9 June 2000 by the four member states of the Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The IVF mission is to promote the development of closer co-operation between the member states in the area of culture, science and research, education, youth exchanges, tourism and cross-border co-operation, through its grant and scholarship programmes.

The South Moravian Center for International Mobility (an interest association of corporate bodies founded by South Moravian region, Masaryk University, Brno University of Technology and Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno) offers scholarships for foreign students in the South Moravian region in the Czech republic. These scholarships are provided for talented students from the EU non-member states for the period of the first academic year at the universities of the South Moravian Region, in the follow-up master studies and PhD studies. Studies are in the technical field and natural sciences, in Czech language. The applicants usually have to pass the university entrance exams as well. To obtain this scholarship the students have to pass successfully the university entrance exams. If the students achieve good study results, they are offered university scholarship in the following academic years.