Fully Funded Scholarship At (EFA) European Forum Alpbach In Austria For World Students 2025-26
A scholarship at EFA covers the participation fee and the accommodation for the entire duration of the event. Additionally, scholarship holders receive a daily allowance of 25 Euros per day.
Every year, hundreds of young talents from all around the world come to the annual event in the village of Alpbach. Students, young professionals and changemakers attend scientific, competence based and artistic seminars, participate in a high-level conference programme and join social and cultural activities.
Fully Funded Scholarship At (EFA) European Forum Alpbach In Austria For World Students 2025-26
The scholarship holders are the only participants who stay for the whole duration of the Forum. Both EFA itself as well as the Forum Alpbach Network (FAN) award around 350 scholarships to first-time participants.
The two weeks in summer are a unique experience for this selected group of people, providing thought-provoking content as well as inspiring encounters with decision-makers and other generations of passionate Europeans.
There are more than 30 alumni organisations in 21 different countries!
They fund their own scholarships, organise various events throughout the year and support your stay at the European Forum Alpbach event.
Qualification criteria
Our scholarship programme is for students, young professionals and change-makers who want to have an impact and become active citizens in their region.
In addition, please note the following application criteria:
- You have not received a scholarship from the European Forum Alpbach yet and therefore qualify as a first-time scholarship holder. If you attended the Forum virtually in 2020 or 2021, you may still apply.
- The main language of the European Forum Alpbach is English. Therefore, fluent English language skills are required (English proficiency at a minimum level of B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference). You will be asked to provide supporting documents to prove your English proficiency (Q&A section).
- You are between 18 and 30 years of age (or between 18 and 35 for citizens of the Global South)
A scholarship for the European Forum Alpbach event is available to applicants from all countries and disciplines. Artists and non-graduates are invited to apply, too.
We encourage candidates coming from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, members of ethnical or religious minorities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, and refugees or displaced persons to apply for a scholarship.
If you identify yourself as belonging to one of these groups, you may indicate this in your motivational statement. We will take it into consideration in our jury assessment.
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Application process
You can either apply via EFA’s application portal (3 to 25 of March 2025) or via one of the FAN’s alumni clubs.
FAN clubs strive to make the Alpbach experience available to new scholarship holders from their clubs’ regions. If you have a regional affiliation with one (or even more) of the FAN clubs that offer their own scholarships, we recommend applying there.
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