The International Visegrad Fund offers Master's and Post-Master's scholarships awarded to selected scholars for periods of 1 or 2 semesters (with the exception of Master's scholarships within the In-Coming scheme where 1- to 4-semester scholarships can be awarded). Given the annual budget of EUR 1,532,000, the Fund will award about 400 semesters in total in the academic year 2010/2011 (more information).

Citizens of the following countries can apply: Albania (AL), Armenia (AM), Azerbaijan (AZ), Belarus (BY), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA), Croatia (HR), the Czech Republic (CZ), Georgia (GE), Hungary (HU), Macedonia (MK), Moldova (MD), Montenegro (ME), Poland (PL), the Russian Federation (RU), Serbia (RS), Slovakia (SK) and Ukraine (UA). The same rules are applicable to Kosovar scholars.

All applicants must have finished at least 4 semesters of university at the time of applying.

The following scholarship schemes are available:

for scholars coming from one of the V4 countries (CZ, HU, PL or SK) who plan to study in any V4 country other than that of their citizenship

Successful applicants within this scheme will receive scholarships of EUR 2,300/semester and the corresponding host universities/institutes receive EUR 1,500/semester/scholar