EU-SATURN is the European Scholarship for South Africans! It is an EU-funded mobility programme with generous scholarships for study or research in Europe.
The EU-SATURN scholarship offers South Africans a fantastic opportunity to continue their education in Europe at an affordable price. By applying for the EU-SATURN scholarship, you may be lucky enough to get between €1000 and €1500 per month to help you live and study in the partner university of your choice!
EU-SATURN (The EUropean-South African programme for the TUning of Regional Needs in higher education) is an Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme that offers scholarships for South African nationals to spend a period of study/research at one of the European full member universities. The programme is coordinated by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in collaboration with the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
The programme will provide for a total of 82 scholarships for master, PhD or staff mobility from South Africa to Europe.
Our European partners:
University of Groningen
University of Ghent, Belgium
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland
Universitat de València, Spain
Uppsala University, Sweden
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Our South African Partners:
University of the Free State
Stellenbosch University
Tshwane University of Technology
University of Cape Town
University of Fort Hare
University of Johannesburg
University of Limpopo
University of the Western Cape
University of the Witwatersrand
Additionally, EU-SATURN has four associated partners to support our mission and ambitions:
Africa Studies Centre (Netherlands)
Energy Academy Europe (Netherlands)
Higher Education South Africa
South African Young Academy of Science
A dedicated website www.eu-saturn.eu will be launched in September 2012. The first call for applications is expected to open in October 2012. The first mobility cohort is due for 2013.