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Guidelines for applicants

This document contains detailed information about the application procedure. We strongly advise you to read it before starting to fill in the Application Form.

 

Application Form

This form expects to be an easy and simple way to prepare your application, allowing you to introduce progressively the details and information required.
You must start creating your application form by setting your USER and your PASSWORD. From the beginning, you have to choose the type of scholarship for which you want to receive the support of the Programme. Please don’t forget the access data as you will need to use them in case you are selected.

The Application Form must be filled in English since all valid applications will be evaluated by the host institutions chosen. 

Please take into consideration that in case you submit your application form and/or documents in Portuguese, non-Portuguese speaking institutions will obviously reject your application since they will be unable to understand the contents.

Before starting to fill in the Application Form, you must be sure of having all the certificates and language skills required to attend the sought programme(s) and the institution(s).

We also strongly advise you to read the Guidelines for Applicants and the FAQs before starting.

If an applicant submits more than one application, the system will automatically consider only the most recent one.

If you prefer, you may first fill in the application form in the Word document available in this page, so that you don’t need to use an Internet connection for a long time. However, please take into consideration that you will afterwards need to paste the information to the online application form and submit it in the website within the deadline.

Applications sent by e-mail or post will not be accepted.

Application - Word version (.doc)

 

Who can apply?

In order to be eligible to apply to an EBW+ scholarship, applicants need to fulfil a set of minimum requirements. All criteria are applicable at the time of submitting the application.

General criteria for all types of mobility:

  • Must be a national of Brazil;

  • Must have obtained a previous degree by a Brazilian Higher Education Institution;
       
  • Must have not resided nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the eligible European countries at the time of submitting their application to the partnership;
     
  • Must have not benefited in the past from an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the same type of mobility;
     
  • Must have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses or English;
     
  • Must be enrolled in a doctorate programme in a Brazilian Higher Education Institution.

It is noteworthy to mention that in addition to these criteria there may be other defined internally by each partner institution of the project, so applicants must make sure to ask the contact person of the institution about the specific eligibility criteria established either in their home institution (if applicable) or in the host institution(s) which they intend to apply to.

 

Other relevant information

Definition of Target Group:

Depending on their characteristics, all applicants fit in one of the three Target Groups established by the European Commission for the Erasmus Mundus – Action 2 Programme. Each of the Target Groups has different types of mobility scholarships available.

Target Group 1:
  • applicants who are registered at one of the Brazilian partner institutions, or
     
  • applicants who have a formal link with one of the Brazilian partner institutions

Both must have the formal support of the institution (through formal letter of support) to submit the application.

 
Target Group 2:
  • applicants who are registered at a Brazilian non-partner institution (including associate institutions of the EBW+ Project), or
     
  • applicants who have obtained a university degree or equivalent from a Brazilian institution (partner or non-partner) but are not enrolled at the time of submitting their application, or
     
  • applicants who have a formal link with Brazilian non-partner institutions.

In case of exchange (non-degree seeking) students and staff, they must have the formal support of the institution (through formal letter of support) to submit the application.

 
Target Group 3:
  • applicants who are nationals of Brazil and are in a particularly vulnerable situation for social and/or political reasons. For example:
    • having a status of Internally Displaced Persons, or
       
    • it can be proved that they have been the object of unjustified expulsion from university on racial, ethnic, religious, political, gender or sexual inclination, or
       
    • they belong to an indigenous population, or
    • they have accessed the Higher Education Institution through the quota system based on racial issues.

PLEASE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION that Target Group 3 is not about economic aspects. Being a person in a vulnerable economic situation does not make you eligible for this group.

In case of exchange (non-degree seeking) students, they must have the formal support of the institution (through formal letter of support) to submit the application.