1. You are going abroad for an exchange, research, internship or fieldwork as part of your UvA studies and thus earn credits.
2. Without financial support, the experience abroad would not be possible for you, because you and your parents/guardians do not have sufficient resources to cover the costs. This requires an advice letter from a student counselor.*
3. It is your first study experience abroad. This means that students from abroad (who are already gaining experience abroad by studying at the UvA) are excluded from participation (with the exception of refugees).

Read the conditions for more information.

Checks that are part of the assessment include whether you are entitled to a supplementary grant from DUO, whether you have used up your right to student financing including loan rights, and/or whether there are other circumstances that make financial support necessary. We do expect from you that you make the maximum effort to secure the funds needed, which also means we expect you to make full use of the option to take a DUO loan, as far as possible. Do take a look at the example of the student counsellor advice form. Please note: there may be a waiting period of 2-3 weeks to make an appointment at Student Services, so please take this into account and timely contact them.

For initial advice on whether you are eligible for this grant, you can call Student Services (student counsellor daily consultation hours from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, tel: 020 525 9297). For advice on how to finance your study experience abroad you can also contact the advisors at the International Office of your faculty. Moreover, you can contact the Amsterdam University Fund team for more information, at via subsidieaanvragen-auf@uva.nl.

The travel grant is not intended to cover everything, but rather forms a contribution to the total reasonable costs of the experience abroad. The available budget determines the amount of the awards and whether awards can be made. Travel grant awards will generally be between €2,500 and €5,000. The maximum of what can be requested is €10,000 (in exceptional cases).

*by departure date we mean the actual date you wil be travelling to your foreign destination. Within two weeks' time after the deadline you will be informed of the decision regarding your application. 

An application can be submitted via the AUF website.

Please note: We are working with a new BenefactorCloud application system. If you encounter any problems, please send an email to subsidieaanvragen-auf@uva.nl.

Approximately every three months there is an application round with a deadline to apply. We will attempt to inform you of the decision within two to three weeks after the deadline. Please bear in mind that, if a travel grant is awarded, payment will take place after we have received proof of departure, in the form of your travel ticket and (if not already submitted with your application) a final confirmation of admission from the university, institution or organization welcoming you.

Submit the application with all documents (PDF files only) via the application form. The form is in English, the answers and text in the files may also be in Dutch. These are the documents to include for your application:

• your motivation letter dated and addressed to the Amsterdam University Fund), in which you clarify the added value and goals of the study experience abroad and explain the need for receiving a travel grant; 
• a recent CV;
• an overview of your study results;
• a personal and tailored letter of recommendation from a tutor, lecturer, study advisor or other UvA employee (either in the form of a letter with UvA letterhead and signature, or an email in which it is clear that the email came from the UvA employee's email address);
• an advice letter from a student counselor, which clearly shows a financial shortfall that cannot be bridged without a travel grant;
• a specified budget (download the format). If the advice letter already contains a sufficiently specified budget, there is no need to add a separate budget;
• proof of admission from the university/institution/organization welcoming you, or a document showing that you will be admitted.

Within a month of returning home, we would like to receive a travel report in BenefactorCloud, with the following elements:

• the purpose of the trip (exchange, research, internship or fieldwork) and its results;
• the academic added value of the trip;
• to what extent the trip met your objectives/expectations;
• what your follow-up plans are.

The report does not have to be more than two A4 pages or 1,000 words. In addition to your travel report, we would also like to receive a number of photos of you during your trip. Send the photos as high-resolution JPG files (file larger than 1 MB). If we plan to use one of your photos for our website, online newsletter or other publications, we will first ask for your permission. We do not offer compensation for the use of photos.

For more information about this grant, please contact the Amsterdam University Fund by email: subsidieaanvragen-auf@uva.nl. Please include your telephone number in your email so that we can also contact you by telephone if necessary.