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Guidelines for applicants

This document contains detailed information about the application procedure. We strongly advise you to read it before starting to fill in the Application Form.

Application Form


Application - Word version (.doc)

This form expects to be an easy and simple way to prepare your application, allowing you to introduce progressively the details and information required.
You must start creating your application form by setting your USER and your PASSWORD. From the beginning, you have to choose the type of scholarship for which you want to receive the support of the Programme.

The Application Form can be filled in English, Portuguese or Spanish. However, the language used to fill in the application form must agree with the institution(s) and programme(s) chosen. Being so, for instance, if you intend to apply only to Spanish speaking institutions, you may fill in the Application Form and attach all the required documents in Spanish. Nevertheless, in case you intend to apply to institutions from 3 different countries (where different languages are used), we strongly recommend the use of the English language to fill in the form, as well as in all the attached documents, so that all the host institutions may be able to analyse the submitted proposal.

Before starting to fill in the Application Form, you must be sure of having all the certificates and language skills required to attend the sought programme(s) and the institution(s). We also strongly advise you to read the Guidelines for Applicants and the FAQs before starting.

If an applicant submits more than one application, the system will automatically consider the most recent one.

 

Who can apply?

In order to be eligible to apply to a BABEL scholarship, applicants need to fulfill a set of minimum requirements.

 

General criteria for all types of mobility:

  • Must be a national of one of the third-countries covered by the relevant lot;
     
  • Must have not resided nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the eligible European countries at the time of submitting their application to the partnership (not applicable to staff nor Target Group 3 applicants);
     
  • Must have not benefited in the past from an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the same type of mobility;
     
  • Must have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or English;
     
  • Must respect the specific and additional criteria applicable to each type of mobility (undergraduate, post-doctorate, administrative and academic staff)

 

Specific criteria for each type of mobility:

      
  • Academic and Administrative staff
    Staff applicants must work for full time in a partner university.

It is noteworthy to mention that in addition to these criteria there may be other defined internally by each partner institution of the project, so applicants must make sure to ask the contact person of the institution about the specific eligibility criteria established either in their home institution (if applicable) or in the host institution(s) which they intend to apply to.

 

Other relevant information:

Third-countries covered by the relevant lot:

Group A
Bolivia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Group B
Brazil
Uruguay

Definition of Target Group:
Depending on their characteristics, all applicants fit in one of the three Target Groups established by the European Commission for the Erasmus Mundus – Action 2 Programme. Each of the Target Groups has different types of mobility scholarships available.

Target Group 1:

  • applicants who are registered at one of the third-countries partner institutions, or
     
  • applicants who have a formal link with one of the third-countries partner institutions at the time of submitting their application.

Both must have the formal support of the institution (through formal letter of support) to submit the application.

Target Group 2:

  • applicants who are registered at a non-partner institution of the third-countries concerned by the lot, or
     
  • applicants who have obtained a university degree or equivalent from an institution of these third-countries (partner or non-partner) but are not currently enrolled, or
     
  • applicants who have a formal link with non-partner institutions of the third-countries concerned by the lot at the time of submitting their application.

All of them must have the formal support of the institution (through formal letter of support) to submit the application.

Target Group 3:

  • applicants who are nationals of one of the third-countries concerned by the lot and are in a particularly vulnerable situation for social and political reasons. For example:
    1. having a refugee status or asylum beneficiaries (international or according to the national legislation of one of the European recipient countries), or
       
    2. it can be proved that they have been the object of unjustified expulsion from university on racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender or sexual inclination, or
       
    3. they belong to an indigenous population or IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons)