Fellowships

For the Food Technology Programme several fellowship programmes are available :

European Masters Fellowships
Every year a few fellowships are available for non European students that have applied for the specialisation European Masters in Food Studies. These fellowships have a maximum of 5000 Euro/year.

Special fellowship for excellent African students within the European Masters programme
Each year one full fellowship is available for excellent African students for the European Masters specialisation. Excellent is defined as : top 10% of your class and/or First Class (honours) degree and/or gpa of over 90% of maximum scale.

Application is open only AFTER HAVING BEEN ADMITTED TO WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY. More information see the European Masters website.


Dutch National Fellowship Programme, NFP.
This fellowship programme is managed by the NUFFIC, the Dutch governmental organisation dealing with fellowships.
This fellowship is open for a number of nationalities, see the Nuffic website. Food Technology is listed under the heading Engineering in the list of eligible programmes.
It is a full fellowship, which includes tuition fee, travel and living costs.

Every year around 6 students get an NFP fellowship awarded for Food Technology. However, the more students apply for NFP, the more positions become available !

Applicants need to have at least the following gpa : 80% or higher on a national scale; First Class or Second Class Upper (Honours) or equivalent. Second Class Upper and Second Class Lower are NOT eligible.

Application for 2012 is closed.


DST  Fellowships
These fellowships are only open for European students (EU and non-EU) who have applied for the specialisation Dairy Science and Technology. These fellowships have a maximum of 10.000 Euro/year.

Application is open only AFTER HAVING BEEN ADMITTED TO WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY. More information, see the Dairy website. 

StuNed fellowships
These fellowships are specifically for students from Indonesia. These are full fellowships, including tuition fee and living allowances.

Every year around 4 fellowships are awarded for Food Technology. More information, contact Neso Indonesia: www.nesoindonesia.or.id.


China Programme
This is a fellowship programme from the Dutch government for excellent Chinese students. More information, contact Neso Beijing

German EED programme
If you have strong Christian believes and are (very) active in your church, you can apply for a fellowship in Wageningen at the German EED. See here for details. (page may be outdated, but fellowships are still provided).

American IFT programme
Wageningen programmes are eligible for the American IFT fellowships, see here for details.


Other Options
See www.grantfinder.nl for other fellowship options of Dutch fellowships.

International Programmes
The food technology programme is internationally well regarded and fellowships have been awarded the last years by : World Bank, Arabic Bank, Saudi Food and Drug Administration, Conacyt (Mexico), Conicit (Chile), Colfuturo (Colombia), Onassis Foundation (Greece),  Japanese Fellowship programmes, local French and Canadian authorities and others. Contact your local fellowship co-ordinator for details.
 

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