Call for students: WE’RE TRAVELLING TO EUROPE!

The Munja Social Innovation Incubator and the HOĆU.ba information platform, with support from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Balkan Trust for Democracy and partners, are opening the call for applications to the program for the ninth consecutive year “We’re Travelling to Europe” for final-year students of the first and second cycles of study at universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To date, the scholarship has been awarded to and the programme has included 242 students.

The aim of the project is to ensure that at least 24 top students at universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to spend the summer like most of their peers from Europe: travelling freely around Europe and getting to know European cities and peoples. The winners of the competition receive a scholarship consisting of the following:

• An InterRail pass for 22 days of travel on European trains, worth 748 KM


• pocket money in the amount of 270 KM


• ISIC student card


• travel insurance


• participation in the three-day special opening of the programme in Berlin on 25-28.07.2016 (accommodation and meals in Berlin, meeting with students from Southeast Europe, party, city tour, meeting with officials of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Robert Bosch Foundation, etc.)


• an orientation workshop in Sarajevo (transport and lunch) and a travel guide with tips

Basic criteria for selecting students:

1. Applications may be submitted exclusively by final-year undergraduate students, students who have completed their coursework, or postgraduate students up to 26 years of age who are citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and hold a travel document;


2. Preference will be given to applicants who have never or rarely travelled abroad;


3. Preference will be given to applicants involved in student, youth and/or non-governmental organizations;


4. Foreign language proficiency


5. Student achievement:

• Average grade of at least 7,5 (3,0) or higher (the applicant must submit the original certificate of examinations passed and average grade)


• Duration of studies

1. Motivation for participating in the programme and willingness to engage in promoting youth mobility.

Interested candidates can download the application form and instructions for applying from the attachment below:

• PUE16 – Instructions – 5.2016


• PUE16 – Application Form – 5.2016

The collected documents, placed in an envelope, must be delivered by Friday, 10 June/June 2016. godine until 15:00 h (envelopes received with a postmark dated up to 10.06 will also be considered), together with the creative task and contact details, send to the email address: [email protected].

Only finalists will be contacted and invited to an interview in Sarajevo, which will take place on 17. and 18.06.2016.

Applications may be sent by mail to the address:

MUNJA

For the “Travelling to Europe” competition

Skenderpašina 1

71 000 Sarajevo

or deliver in person in a sealed envelope to the Munja (Networks) offices on weekdays from 09:00 to 20:00).

Only fully completed applications received at the specified address on time, together with the creative task submitted electronically, will be considered.

For any additional questions:

• Munja fan page on Facebook


• E-mail: [email protected]


• Tel: 033 23 77 64


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