• Specific Research at MU
  • Newcomer scholarship – In 2021, Masaryk University launched a new scholarship programme dedicated to helping students from developing countries or countries undergoing economic transformation who are enrolled in full-time English-language degree programmes. The new scholarship fund provides well performing students with a grant of 100,000 CZK (approximately €3,800) to help cover their first year of studies at Masaryk University. Scholarship programme details are available here.
  • Student research project grant – in support of student research projects in medicine, science, informatics, humanities, social sciences, sports, law and economics.
• Grant Agency of Masaryk University
  • Aims to support university research teams, enhance the prestige of research work, increase the success rate of obtaining international prestigious grants and encourage interdisciplinary innovative research.
• Internal Grant Agency
  • A project funded from Structural Funds in support of the improvement of the quality of teaching associated with research and in support of student grants in science, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.
• Faculty scholarships
  • Various scholarships designed to help PhD students including support for mobility programmes, publishing activities and talented students.
    
    • Faculty of Science
    • Faculty of Arts
    • Faculty of Informatics

Accommodation grant

• Masaryk University provides a financial grant to help students offset accommodation costs. It is paid out each semester to students who meet the required criteria.
• Check the criteria below to see if you qualify:
  • You must be enrolled in a full-time degree programme
  • You must be enrolled in a degree programme which is your first degree programme at any university in the Czech Republic with the exception of being enrolled in your first follow-up Master’s degree programme (relevant to graduates of Bachelor’s degree programmes) or your first doctoral degree programme (relevant to graduates of Master’s degree programmes); furthermore, studies in degree programmes which you may have enrolled in and completed between May 1 and October 30 of one calendar year are not taken into account.
  • You must not exceed the standard duration of studies in any of the degree programmes in which you are concurrently enrolled.
  • You must not have a permanent address within the Statutory City of Brno (Brno City district).
• If you meet all of the above criteria, you may submit an electronic application via the university’s Information System at any time in November for the fall semester and in April for the spring semester.
• For more information, please contact your faculty’s Office for International Relations.

• Brno Ph.D. Talent
  • Long-term financial support (100,000 CZK per year for 3 years) awarded to 25 talented doctoral students in the field of life sciences and technology.

• TAČR Sigma – Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
  • A grant scheme in support of young researchers, specifically targeting collaboration with industry partners.
• Government scholarships
  • The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic annually offers scholarships to university students or graduates and Ph.D. candidates from other countries who wish to enrol in studies or participate in a research period at a higher education institution in the Czech Republic. For more information about the scholarship, please visit the Ministry website.

• Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions – Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN)
  • This grant scheme aims to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers with the help of their supervisors.
  • A unique chance to reach full-time funding throughout the duration of your Ph.D. studies.
• International Visegrad Fund
• Federal student aid for students from the USA