The One World Scholarship Programme is intended for students from developing countries studying at Austrian universities and sees itself as a contribution to peaceful living together of people from different regions by means of the promotion of equality of opportunities, dialogue, intercultural know-how and partnership. It is laid down in the Austrian Education Cooperation and promotes, together with other programmes and in a sustainable way, the concerns of the Austrian Development Cooperation (combat against poverty, protection of resources, peace-keeping, etc.), the development and expansion of a potential of specialists and capacity and institution development. It complements other scholarship programmes and is designed as a global programme; it promotes the capacity of independent, creative, critical and self-determined thinking and acting and strengthens the competence for innovative problem resolution. In line with its holistic orientation the programme comprises the following instruments: scholarships, study-related measures as well as study-related education, support with reintegration and follow-on contacts.

Competences
The African-Asian Institutes in Graz and Salzburg and the ÖAD support students from all non-European developing countries, the African-Asian Institute in Vienna support students from non-European developing countries except Latin America and Middle Eastern countries; the Latin America Institute (LAI) only supports students from Latin America and the Austrian Association for the Middle East (ÖOG) only supports students from developing countries of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Requirements

• Nationality of a non-European developing country (exception: recognised refugees and asylum-seekers)
• Enrolment in an Austrian university
• Financial necessity
• Successful course of studies
• Readiness to return to one’s country of origin or another developing country
• Age limit at the beginning of the scholarship (30 years – diploma/master programmes, 35 years – doctoral/PhD programmes)

Priorities

• Women
• Study project related to the profile of the Austrian Development Cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals, e.g. combat against poverty, promotion of democracy, protection of environment and resources)
• Students who act as intermediaries between Austrian universities and their home universities/NPOs
• Students who have been discriminated and disadvantaged in their countries of origin for cultural, social, political and religious reasons
• Handicapped students
• Students from priority countries and regions of the Austrian Development Cooperation (OEZA), LLDCs as well as priority countries of the Catholic Women’s Movement Austria (kfb).

www.aai-wien.at/
www.aai-graz.at/
www.aai-salzburg.at/
www.lai.at/
www.orient-gesellschaft.at/

ÖAD offices for the submission of applications