Netherlands Institute in St. Petersburg and the Society of Friends of Netherlands Institute established scholarship for the best graduation work about Netherlands. A Russian student, defended graduation project in the current academic year, can be a participant of the competition. The topic of the work can be devoted to a various scientific spheres: culture, linguistic studies, history, geography, economics, politics, law, international relations, social studies, etc.

Italian language proficiency is a determining factor in being accepted for study in Italy and for being awarded a bursary. A B2 level “Certificate of Italian as a foreign language” must be submitted. Many Italian Cultural Institutes around the world offer Italian language courses and have language proficiency testing facilities. Check the Network of Italian Cultural Institutes for more information.

According to the Agreement between the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic on cooperation in the sphere of education, the Slovak side invites two Russian teachers of the Russian language to teach at the University of Preshov and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra for the 2014/2015 academic year.

The British Council is proceeding with the research seminars programme Researcher Links, aimed at the promoting of cooperation between the promising young researchers from Great Britain and 19 countries.

The Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation and the National Centre for Research in France in accordance with the concluded agreement on the cooperation implement the competition of joint research.

The Russian Research Fund announces the open public call for applications for receiving grant from the Fund for Priority-oriented Directions of the Russian Research Fund activity “The Implementation of Fundamental Research and Exploratory Research by International Research Groups”.

The Barents EU Centre is enrolling students for participation in the International Summer School “Sovereignty in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region” (ISSL’14), which will be arranged on May 18-25 at Petrozavodsk State University in the framework of the project “Establishing the EU Centre in the Barents Region of Russia”.

Embassy of France in Russia announces competition for getting scholarships which give the opportunity to take part in linguistic internships (the program “Students who Study French as a Minor Subject”).

The Russian Fund of Russian Fundamental Research and National Research Centre in France announce the competition of 2015 initiative research projects. The goal of the competition is to encourage initiative research projects implemented by Russian and French researchers.

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