The Alpine Fellowship Refugee Scholar Prize 2025

APPLICATIONS OPEN 1ST JANUARY 2025.

Alpine Fellowship Refugee Scholar Prize

We are proud to award two £2,500 cash prizes to students currently enrolled at Bard College New York.

Rules

  • Applicants must be aged 18 and above.

  • Applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate course at Bard College, New York.

  • All entries should be in English (if this is a barrier, but you meet all other criteria, please contact us to discuss).

  • Applicants must be refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons or stateless persons.

    To help you determine if this is/isn’t you, we use UNHCR definitions which include:

    Refugees are persons fleeing armed conflict or persecution.

    An asylum-seeker is someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed.

    Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state border.

    A stateless person is a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law.

Submission

Applicants will be asked to submit:

  • A 3-5 minute video telling us about your life and academic experience, as well as why this scholarship might benefit you.

  • One piece of academic writing. This can be coursework, a dissertation, an article, or anything - it is simply so that we can gauge your academic experience.

  • A short summary of your engagement with our theme and what might be the content of your 10-minute presentation at our symposium.


Key dates:

Applications open: 1st January 2025
Applications close: 1st March 2025 at 23:59 (UK time)

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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we wish.

UN Refugee Agency

This programme is being run in partnership with Bard College Berlin and the Open Societies University Network, and is a Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) approved pledge towards the goal of expanding refugee access to higher education.

The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) is a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation. It provides a blueprint for governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure that host communities get the support they need and that refugees can lead productive lives.

Previous Years Winners

2024 - On Language

Winners: Christin Alhalabi and Precious Chukwukezie