This European Commission call for proposals is addressed to higher education institutions in the EU member states offering masters courses in European Integration Studies. The objective of this call is to award scholarships to select graduates from ENP countries (Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine) and Russia to follow courses leading to a degree of master in European Integration Studies offered in EU higher education institutions.

The application and selection procedures are based on four main steps:

1. EU higher education institutions fill in an online questionnaire with data on their European Integration Master Course to create a database that will be made available through the ‘’Europa’’ website.
2. Graduates from ENP countries apply for a scholarship to one higher education institution offering a European Integration Master Course.
3. EU higher education institutions having received applications from ENP and Russia graduates will select the best ones, rank them according to their quality and submit to the European Commission a list of proposed grantees.
4. The European Commission will select proposed students from ENP countries and Russia who meet the requirements set up in this call for proposals.

Each grant is provided in the form of a lump sum, the maximum amount of a scholarship is € 20.000 per Academic year.

Deadline: 6 June 2008

Total budget:  EUR 2 million

European Commission, DG Education and Culture