Apply for the University of Tartu Asia Centre scholarship

The University of Tartu announces a scholarship of the University of Tartu Asia Centre for the Master’s degree graduates or in the Faculty of Medicine, an internship abroad or a PhD dissertation or its project.

The scholarship aims to support students at the University of Tartu whose research focuses on the regions in Asia and/or the Middle East or related fields. In addition to the thematic focus, joint supervision or collaboration with research organisations in Asia may also qualify. The scholarship is open to graduates of master’s programmes. Students in the Faculty of Medicine are invited to apply for the scholarship with their PhD plan, full dissertation or internship abroad.

The scholarship of 2000€ is awarded once a year in every in each of the four UT faculties.

Applying

The scholarship can be applied for a Master's thesis submitted to the defense, internship abroad, PhD dissertation or its project and research work in cases of dentistry and pharmacology students.

If you are a student of Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences or Faculty of Science and Technology, you are welcomed to apply for the scholarship with your master's thesis, the following must be submitted to the Asian Centre of the University of Tartu:

• curriculum vitae with an overview of professional and social activities. Please add some sentences about your social activity or research is linked with the aim of the scholarship;
• pdf-file of the Master's thesis submitted for defense;
• after defense, the grade received for the thesis;

If you are a student of Faculty of Medicine, you are invited to apply for the scholarship with your PhD plan, full dissertation or internship abroad, please submit:

• curriculum vitae with an overview of professional and social activities. Please add some sentences about how your social activity or research is linked with the aim of the scholarship;
• pdf-file of the PhD plan, full dissertation or plan of the internship abroad;
• signed recommendation letter from the supervisor;

The deadline for the submission of documents is 6th of June 2025. The files must be submitted to the e-mail address [email protected] (please state "Asia Centre scholarship" in the email title) The scholarship is determined based on the academic level of the Master's thesis, and professional and social activities. In the cases of internship abroad, fulfilment of the set goals and the and professional and social activities

The applications received are evaluated by an interdisciplinary committee, including representatives of the University of Tartu Asia Centre. The scholarship shall be handed over to the scholarship recipient at the graduation of the field of study in the 2024/2025 academic year.

Below you’ll find summaries of the works by our 2024 scholarship recipients. The link to the interview with the author is at the end of the summary.

• Ismet Suleimanov's MA thesis on the genocide memory of the Crimean Tatars
• Wei Chen's MA thesis on the omen system