Since academic year 2021, the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) has been offering prize award programmes for groups of students coming first or excelling in international competitions, as follows:
The programme is open to groups of students from Greek Higher Education Institutions coming first or excelling in international competitions. Applications must be filled in by the scientific coordinator of the group using the special application form posted at the website of IKY and sent from the Secretariat of the Department concerned.
The application must be accompanied by the required back-up documentation specified therein, describing the scientific field and the competition themes, documenting its importance and gravity/significance and presenting the participating team.
Applications must be sent to IKY within a period of one month as of the date that the group excelled. Accepted shall only be applications for groups having excelled up to one month prior to the date of the announcement. Applications submitted in due time by the Secretariats concerned (within a month from the date that the group excelled) shall be examined in their entirety for benchmarking reasons from the Administrative Board of IKY in December.
The price consists in the award of a gross lump sum of 500 € to each participating student. The amount is directly deposited by IKY to the bank account of the beneficiary student.
For more information, kindly contact the Calls for Proposals Unit of IKY. Telephone: +30 2103726346 and +30 2103726395. Email: sbikaki@iky.gr, spoulidaki@iky.gr.