Public life scholarship

Last modified: 29. November 2022

The institutional professional, academic and public life scholarship is a monthly or biannual grant for full-time students who have

     a) professional activity, successful work as a demonstrator or responsible student for the class, special role and activity in a professional college;
     b) mentoring activities (ESN MATE);
     c) public life and advocacy activities, active membership in the student associations;
     d) public activities in the University Doctoral Students’ Council;
     e) effective activities in sports or in culture life.

The scholarship is a non-compulsory grant paid on the basis of a competitive application to a student who has undertaken activities to promote the advocacy, welfare, cultural, scientific, health and community life of students and to support the promotion of the University.

Students who are eligible for the institutional professional, scientific and public life scholarship and the sports and cultural scholarship are full-time bachelor’s, master's, higher education vocational training, postgraduate, full-time state scholarship/grant and self-financed/reimbursed students.

PhD students are also entitled to the institutional professional, scientific and public life scholarship on the basis of the third sentence of Paragraph 10 (3) of the Government Decree, as a higher legal basis than the University's Student Benefits and Reimbursement Regulations.

When there is a call for application student can apply for the scholarship by submitting his/her application to NEPTUN System in full compliance with the application conditions.

In the case of parallel studies at the University, the activity on which the scholarship is based may be assessed only once.
The University Students’ Welfare Committee will decide on the grant, the amount and the duration of the scholarship within 30 days of the end of the application period.

A student may apply for an institutional scholarship for professional, academic and public life activities in several consecutive application periods.
Applications may not be submitted in respect of the performance of duties in connection with an employment activity or post at the University if the activity/post has been paid.

The application submitted by a student may include activities carried out during the application month/semester. The application will not be evaluated if its content includes previously submitted and evaluated results.

The application must be accompanied by supporting documents (certificates, evidences, description of activities), which will be detailed for each type of scholarship.

Students may not submit applications for public life or advocacy scholarships during the period of their part-time studies on abroad or international internship.

No student who has submitted an application for the same period may be involved in the review and evaluation of applications.

Public Life and Advocacy Scholarship

Public life and Advocacy Scholarships may be awarded for activities related to the realisation of the values set out below:

     a) advocacy:
          (aa) activity in student government;
          (ab) activity in any committee of the university, campus or institute; and
          (ad) active participation in activities at the dormitory or other voluntary work for the university;
          (ac) public activities in a PhD student council.
     (b) welfare, cultural, health and public life:
          (bb) voluntary work (social, health care /e.g.: blood donation organisation/ etc.) and
          (bc) event organisation and management;
          (bd) participation in the enrolment activities of the University;
          (be) participation in the technical tasks of hybrid education.

The scholarship is awarded for a full semester in the case of a position as president or campus president of the University Student Association (in Hungarian EHÖK, in English hereinafter referred to as "USA"), a position as president of the University Doctoral Student Association and a position in the USA or UDSA Board.

In support of the application, the applicant student is required to submit a short (maximum 1 A4 page), signed report on the specific activity to be evaluated within the application period and the following certificate:

• in the case of active membership in the Campus Student Association, a certificate issued and signed by the president of the Campus Student Association;
• in the case of an active membership in the University Doctoral Student Association, a certificate issued and signed by the head of the Doctoral, Habilitation and Science Organization Office;
• in the case of presidents of the Campus Student Association and positions in the University Student Association, a certificate issued and signed by the President of the University Student Association;
• in the case of mentoring, a signed certificate from the director of the International Relations Center;
• in the case of participation in technical tasks related to hybrid education, a document kept by the student and countersigned by the Deputy Director General of Education of the campus, indicating the dates (date, start and end dates) of the lessons in which the student participated in the support of hybrid education in the given month and the total number of hours of engagement;
• for all other public life activities, a certificate issued and signed by the organiser of the activity.

The way in which the participation in the enrolment activity is certified:

1. For applications submitted under the “Back-to-school” (it means: students go back to their ex-secondary grammar school, ex-secondary vocational school to promote the University) programme, please attach:

• a signed and scanned activity report;
• a signed and stamped certificate from the ex-secondary school.

2. In the case of other enrolment activities (Open day, Educatio exhibition, Career Guidance Fair, etc.), please attach:

• signed and scanned report of the activity;
• certificate from the campus enrolment coordinator.

If you participated in both activities (“Back-to-school” and enrolment), please upload one report and both certificates.

If you have been awarded a scholarship for the whole semester (President of the University Student Association, President of the Campus Student Association, member of the Student Association Board), the monthly report must be sent to the Student Association by the first day of the following month to the following e-mail address: info@hok.uni-mate.hu. The collected reports will be forwarded by the Student Association to the President of the University Student Welfare Committee.

Call for applications

Call for applications for institutional professional, academic and activity scholarships for the autumn semester of the academic year 2022/23 (PDF)