CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS FROM COUNTRIES WHERE ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY IS PREVENTED OR SEVERELY LIMITED BY CONFLICT AND/OR DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES Open to students who enrol at the University of Bologna for the 2025-26 Academic year

The University of Bologna offered 13 scholarships for the 2025–26 academic year. They support students enrolled in first-cycle, second-cycle, or single-cycle degree programmes whose home-country conditions make university access difficult or impossible for a significant part of the population.

Applicants could apply before finalising enrolment, but had to be enrolled at the University of Bologna when the award was made. The call closed on 20 November 2025.

Benefits & funding

Each scholarship is worth €9,000 gross, including charges borne by the institution and recipient.
Winners receive €5,000 gross after the call closes and €4,000 gross after completing at least one-third of the credits in their study plan.
The scholarship cannot be combined with a 2025–26 ER.GO scholarship, a Unibo4Refugees programme, or another University of Bologna or ER.GO hardship scholarship for that year.

Eligibility

Applicants must be enrolled in a first-cycle, second-cycle, or single-cycle University of Bologna degree programme for 2025–26 when the scholarship is awarded.
Applicants must come from a country where conflict, discriminatory policies, or similar circumstances make access to university difficult or impossible for a significant part of the population.
The application must explain objectively verifiable conditions affecting the applicant’s university career in their home country; the call does not publish a fixed list of eligible countries.

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Application process

1
Sign in to StudentiOnline with SPID or University of Bologna credentials and open Calls for Applications.
2
Select this scholarship call from the list.
3
Attach a supporting self-certification of no more than two pages in English or Italian, a valid passport copy, and any optional supporting evidence; every document must be a PDF.
4
Submit through StudentiOnline by 20 November 2025 at 12:00 noon; paper and email applications are not accepted.

Program timeline

Application deadline.
20 November 2025, 12:00 noon
After the deadline
Administrative checks, commission review, and notification through the applicant’s University of Bologna email.