Student Travel Grant

Field work in Nepal
Field work in Nepal

Unfortunately, the Student Travel Grant will no longer be available from 2025 onward.

Aim

The Global Development Network's Student Travel Grant aims to support and encourage field work conducted in low- and middle- income contexts. Field work is believed to be crucial for knowledge production and sharing research related to the global sustainable development agenda.

Who can apply?

  • Bachelor and Master students enrolled at University of Copenhagen
  • The field work must be ECTS credit bearing
  • The field work must be related to an independent project including data collection (e.g. Bachelor or Master’s thesis). Please note that you can also apply as a group, but the stipend will be shared among the participants. Also please note that attending field courses does not apply for this travel grant.  
  • Funding must be used for upcoming field work to be conducted in low- and middle- income contexts within 12 months after granting.

Assessment criteria

  • Relevance to global development and location of field work
  • Outreach and dissemination of project
  • Multi-disciplinarity

How to apply?

Send a motivated application of max 500 words – including: a) aim of the project b) country where field work will be conducted c) planned time schedule d) programme/discipline and year at UCPH e) tentative budget.

Application deadline is May 1st, 2024 and must be sent to: development@adm.ku.dk

Applications are assessed every year in mid-May 

Format

Student Travel Grants are given once a year around June. In total of minimum five grants of 10,000 DKK. B-income. The assessment committee consists of a representative from the GDN board and the GDN International Coordinator.  

Reporting obligations

  • Short report/resume/abstract of field work and/or research project to be published on GDN social media.
  • Short film spot: Self-filming from the field work to be published on GDN social media. GDN will facilitate editing and layout.