Scholarships and Student Funding

George David Family Scholarships

The Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI) is offering two scholarships to prospective postgraduates resident in Greece or Cyprus.

Award

We are offering two scholarships, for the sum of £8000 each.  These awards will be tenable for 2024-25 academic year and will be :

  • Automatically deducted from your tuition fee with any remaining funds being awarded towards living costs.

All scholarship award holders are expected to be energetic members of our postgraduate community, and will engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award.  We offer our postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their programme of study.

Eligibility

The scholarships will be awarded to new applicants who have applied for admission to a postgraduate taught Masters or Masters by Research degree programme of study at the University commencing in September 2024.

Applicants must have, or expect to obtain, the equivalent of a UK first class or 2:1 Honours degree at undergraduate level.

Both taught Masters and Masters by Research programmes are eligible for this award. Applications will be considered from UK/Overseas applicants wishing to study full-time/part-time/online distance learning programmes.

Criteria

Students and students on PG programmes longer than one year may apply but must be aware that this funding is for one year only, therefore, students are advised to budget accordingly.

Applying

Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application.

The Scholarship deadline is 23:59 BST 26th June 2024

In order to gain access to the scholarship application system, applicants must have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh.  Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted.

The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web based information portal at https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password.  If you require assistance, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance If you have not applied for admission, please go ahead and do this and you will receive your University User Name and password.

 Frequently Asked Questions

Notification

Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by the end of July 2024.

Contact

Katy Cameron -  katy.cameron@ed.ac.uk