DUO-Sweden Fellowship Program

Deadline: 24-May-22

Applications are now open for the DUO-Sweden Fellowship Program to promote exchanges of people between Sweden and Asian countries on a balanced basis.

Definitions of students

• Students: undergraduate and graduate students who are currently enrolled in universities

Benefits

• The amount of fellowships is standardized as follows.
• For high-income countries, 3,500 Euros for each Asian and Swedish student will be given.
• For Middle and Low-income countries, the Asian student gets 4,000 Euros and the Swedish student gets 3,000 Euros.
• The selection of DUO-Sweden 2022 is made ONLY once a year. In this respect, those who are planning to exchange in Fall Semester of 2022(August-January) and Spring Semester of 2023(January-August 2023) shall apply for DUO-Sweden 2022.
• The duration and the amount of the fellowships are standardized as follows:
  • 1 semester for an amount of 7,000 Euro for both students in a pair.
  • 3,500 Euros each in high income country
  • 4,000 Euros for Asian student (in Middle and Low income countries) and 3,000 Euros for Swedish student
  • Maximum duration for application is 1 semester (120 days).

Note: Exchange of less than one semester is NOT allowed. If a semester is less than 4 months in the Home/Host institutions, then the scholarship will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis.

Eligibility Countries

Asian countries: including Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam

Eligibility Criteria

• Due to this unique nature of this program, in order to be eligible, the following are required:
  • Your exchange fulfills all three requirements below:
    • An educational institution in Sweden (home institution) and an educational institution in Asia (host institution) have established an academic cooperative agreement/inter-institutional agreement; and
    • The Swedish home institution has selected an EU national student enrolled at the home institution to send to the Asian host institution, and such selection has been accepted by the Asian host institution; and
    • The same Asian host institution has selected an Asian student enrolled at the host institution to send to the Swedish home institution, and such selection has been accepted by the same Swedish home institution.

For more information, visit http://www.asemduo.org/07_news/content.php?table=bbs_01&multi=bbs_news&idx=176