Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies

New agreements with Latin American funding agencies

The University has signed several agreements with Latin-American funding agencies, including:

CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research) - Chile

The University of Edinburgh is offering scholarships to PG students in conjunction with CONICYT in 2014-15. The University will provide an unlimited number of scholarships to CONICYT PhD students, amounting to the full tuition fee (excluding additional programme costs) during years 3 (and 4) of study. In addition, the University will provide up to 25 scholarships each worth 25% of tuition fees for CONICYT MSc and LLM students.

Colciencias - Colombia

The University of Edinburgh will offer scholarships to PhD students in conjunction with the Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colciencias) in 2014-15. The University will provide two partial tuition fee scholarships each worth £5,000 per annum for each year of up to three years of full-time registration.

In addition, the University will provide an unlimited number of scholarships each worth 15% of tuition fees per annum for each year of full-time registration, excluding bench fees where applicable.

CONACYT (National Council of Science and Technology) - Mexico

The University of Edinburgh is offering scholarships to PhD students in conjunction with CONACYT in 2014-15. The University will provide an unlimited number of Masters and PhD scholarships to CONACYT students, each worth 25% of tuition fees per annum for each year of full-time registration, excluding bench fees where applicable. Fees for PhD students will be fixed over years 1-3.

For further information, please see: