Apply for “Residential Scholarship for International Students in Italy 2024/2025”
Are you interested in studying 20th-century glass-making art in Italy? Then you should check out the 6 Month Residential Scholarships offered by the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Italy for the academic year 2024/2025.
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini will award one student, undergraduate or graduate, wishing to spend six months doing research at the Glass Study Center / Institute of Art History starting from November 2022 a six-month residential scholarship that will consist of a 6,200 Euros amount and free accommodation. Students must apply to be considered.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation, or just Cini Foundation, is a cultural foundation founded on 20 April 1951 in memory of Giorgio Cini, an Italian entrepreneur who died in August 1949. The Foundation is the earliest example in Italy of a private organization whose principal aims included humanistic studies at a time when collective interest was focused on economics, science, and technology.
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is an internationally recognized cultural institution which continues to draw inspiration from its original vocation and, at the same time, plays a leading role as a center for studies and a venue for meetings and debate on current issues. Its initial projects were focused on solving some of the urgent problems afflicting Italy and Venice in the post-war period.
Application Deadline: August
Brief Description
- University or Organization: Giorgio Cini Foundation
- Department: NA
- Course Level: Undergraduate, Doctoral or post-doctoral
- Award: 6,200 EUROS
- Number of Awards: 1
- Access Mode: Online
- Nationality: International and Domestic
- The award can be taken in Italy.
Eligibility
- Eligible Countries: All international and domestic students are eligible to apply.
- Eligible Course or Subjects: Students can apply for research at the Glass Study Center / Institute of Art History.
- Eligibility Criteria: To be eligible, the applicants must meet all the following/given criteria:
- The applicants must stay in the Vittore Branca Center Residence for six months.
- The applicants must present their research projects to the academic and professional community.
- The applicants can be undergraduates or graduates.
How to Apply
- How to Apply: Students can access the application form. Scholarship applications must be sent via mail at [email protected].
- Supporting Documents: The students are required to present the following documents to the university:
- application form
- degree certificate(s) with marks for individual exams or an equivalent
- curriculum vitae, including knowledge of languages
- a copy of a degree dissertation
- description of the research topic (around 1,500 words) proposed by the candidate, specifying aims, time scale, and materials and documents to be consulted at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
- Two reference letters from professors and scholars on the headed paper who supervise or have supervised the candidate / optional
- One motivation letter in which the candidates present themselves and explain the reasons and perspectives of her/research /
- Admission Requirements: Students must meet the institute’s criteria for being admitted to conducting their research.
- Language Requirement: The students must be required to be fluent in English or Italian.
Benefits
The selected degree students will be provided with a gross sum2 of 6,200 Euros as a contribution to general expenses, travel and board, paid in equal postponed quarterly instalments and free of charge accommodation for six consecutive months in the Vittore Branca Center Residence on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and free use of the Vittore Branca Center facilities.
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