FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

1. All approved candidates will receive a monthly scholarship of 1300 Litas (approx. 377 Euros) for the whole duration of the studies;

2. Tuition-free studies will be offered only for the nationals from Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, and foreign citizens of the Lithuanian descent. Nationals from Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan have to cover the tuition fee from the scholarship received.

NB1. Tuition fee for the studies shall not exceed the normative cost of study which is determined by Minister of education and science.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

1. Copies, validated in accordance with the procedure laid down by legal acts, of:

1. a document certifying the person’s identity;

2. a document certifying first-cycle qualification and translation thereof into Lithuanian or English or Russian;

3. a document certifying the level of proficiency in the language of instruction of the study programme concerned and translation thereof into Lithuanian or English or Russian;

4. a document (documents) certifying research (art) or other activity achievements and translation thereof into Lithuanian or English or Russian;

2. a confirmation of the Lithuanian higher education institution testifying to the fact that the foreigner has been admitted to a full-time second-cycle study programme;

3. contact details (residence address in the country or origin, e-mail).

NB2. All documents must be completed in English, Russian or Lithuanian (or with certified translations into one of these languages).

NB3. All copies of the original documents shall be certified as true copies.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Foreigners applying for scholarships shall submit all the required documents by 1st of August 2013 to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania directly or through the Lithuanian diplomatic representations (Lithuanian embassies) in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, or through the other relevant Lithuanian embassy for foreign citizens of the Lithuanian descent.

The address for sending all the application documents directly to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania is:

Academic Mobility and Continuing Education Division

Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania

A. Volano g. 2/7, LT-01516, Vilnius

LITHUANIA

The list of all Higher Education Institutions in Lithuania can be found on this link:http://www.aikos.smm.lt/aikos/entr_higher_schools.htm.

SELECTION OF THE CANDIDATES

A decision to award the candidates will be determined by the arithmetic mean as follows:

* 70% of the competitive score will consist of the results from the Diploma supplement;

* 20% of the competitive score will consist of the level of proficiency in the language of instruction of the study programme;

* 10% of the competitive score will consist of the research activity achievements.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jolanta Navickaité

Senior Specialist of Academic Mobility and Continuing Education Division

Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania

E-mail: jolanta.navickaite@smm.lt">jolanta.navickaite@smm.lt

Phone: + 370 5 2191 128

Vilija Dulevičiŭtė

Project Coordinator of Higher Education Programs Unit

Education Exchanges Support Foundation

E-mail: vilija.duleviciute@smpf.lt">vilija.duleviciute@smpf.lt 

Phone: +370 5 249 8189, 261 0592