Hello there! The UP Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs’ #OpportunitiesCorner is a weekly update on available scholarships, exchange programs, conferences, workshops, and other skill-enhancing initiatives for UP Diliman students. Here’s for the first week of April 2021!

Central South University, China: Scholarship for Excellent Students

CSU, a top 20 in China, boasts complete discipline categories, ranging from liberal arts to science and engineering. Essential Science Indicators of 16 disciplines are among the top 1% in the world. In particular, that of Materials Science, Engineering and Clinical Medicine are among the top 1‰ around the globe. Besides, CSU has established long-term cooperation with more than 200 universities and research institutes in over 40 countries and regions.

As an open university, we embrace young talents from all over the world, providing the platform to help them achieve their dreams. We have academic degree programs of bachelor, master and doctorate, and non-academic programs like Chinese learning and exchanges. Moreover, we offer various types of scholarships, namely:

• Chinese Government Scholarship,
• Central South University Scholarship,
• MOFCOM Scholarship,
• International Chinese Language Teachers (Confucius Institute) Scholarship.

Tuition, accommodation, and insurance fees will be waived and monthly stipend of 2000-3500 yuan will be provided. Please find details at https://bit.ly/3e3ckMb

ROSATOM Scholarships

The Russian Embassy in the Philippines informed us that the State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) is offering scholarship opportunities for Bachelor’s Degree (4 years), Specialist Degree (5 years), Master’s Degree (2 years), and Postgraduate studies (4 years) in Nuclear Technology and in related fields – (i) nuclear medicine; (ii) physics; (iii) chemical technology; and (iv) material science power engineering.

Interested applicants can register and apply for the scholarship through the website: www.education-in-russia.com from 05-15 April 2021. Further clarifications can be referred to Mr. Andrey Bobylo (studynuclear@gmail.com) of ROSATOM.

ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship (ACYLS) 2021 Program

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), through its Office of International Linkages (OIL) Diliman, is calling for application by regular UPD faculty to the ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship (ACYLS) 2021 Program.

The ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship Program (ACYLS) is an initiative in response to the call of the Leaders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN Member States (AMS) to increase people-to-people exchanges, strengthen educational cooperation, and promote academic exchanges and linkages between AMS and the PRC, in an effort to foster a third pillar of socio-cultural and people to-people exchanges within the ASEAN-China relationship towards building a closer community of shared future.

ACYLS is a dedicated project for ASEAN nationals, in particular, young and promising professionals with working experience in ASEAN Member States. The Chinese government will provide funding for ACYLS mainly through the ASEAN-China Cooperation Fund (ACCF).

Detailed information on the scholarship program, application forms, application procedure, and other documentary requirements may be accessed through this corresponding link.