Scholarships

A scholarship is an annual cash benefit to cost-share the charges of technological specialisation courses, higher education technical and vocational programmes, Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree programmes, or compulsory professional internships attendance.

The scholarship, of variable amount, is awarded per academic year and paid in a maximum of 10 monthly instalments, by bank transfer.

 

Eligibility requirements

Nationality and residence in Portugal

The student should be under the conditions set forth in art. 1 of the Executive Order No. 204/2009, 31 August, amending art. 3 of the Executive Order No. 129/93, 22 April:

a) Be a national citizen;

b) Be a national citizen of a European Union Member States with permanent residence permit in Portugal and relatives, pursuant to act no. 37/2006, 9 August;

c) Be a national citizen of third countries:

i. Hold a permanent residence permit, according to article 80 of act no. 23/2007, 4 July;

ii. Hold a long-term resident status, according to article 125 of act no. 23/2007, 4 July;

iii) From States with which cooperation agreements have been celebrated regarding the application of such benefits;

iv) From States whose law, on equal terms, grants equal treatment to Portuguese students;

d) Be a stateless person;

e) Benefit from political refugee status.

 

Academic Background

The student is eligible if the following conditions, regarding the academic performance and progress, are met:

a) Be registered in a higher Education Institution and enrolled in a programme;

b) Not be the holder of:

i. A technological specialisation diploma, in case of attendance of a technological specialisation course;

ii. Equal or higher academic degree to the degree awarded by the currently, or subsequently, registered or enrolled programme, in the case of Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree study cycles.

c) Be enrolled in a minimum of 30 ECTS, except when the student is enrolled in inferior ECTS number and is completing the corresponding study cycle;

d) If the student was registered and enrolled in higher education institution in the previous year to the scholarship request, and was approved in, at least: No. of ECTS x 0,6 -> if No. of ECTS >= 60;

36 ECTS -> if No. of ECTS < 60 and No. of ECTS >= 36;

No. ECTS -> if No. of ECTS < 36;

No. of ECTS = number of ECTS enrolled in the last enrolment year.

e) By adding up all performed enrolments in enrolled higher education, the student may complete the programme with a total number of annual enrolments not exceeding n + 1, if the programme’s normal length (n) equals or is not less than three years, or than n + 2, if the programme’s normal length exceeds three years.

 

Income and assets

Household per capita income

Besides the eligibility criteria regarding the student’s nationality and academic situation, the scholarship applicant is considered eligible if the annual per capita income of the household equals or is less than 14 times the Indexante de Apoios Sociais (Social Support Index) (IAS) in force in the academic year (example: in 2013, IAS was 419.22 €), together with the maximum tuition annually established for the higher education 1st study cycle.

 

Movable assets

Along with the student’s household, on 31 December of the year previous to the application presentation, the student must possess movable assets equal or less than 240 times the IAS in force in the beginning of the academic year.

 

Accountable income

For Scholarship awarding purposes, the following income earned by the applicant and remaining household members are taken into consideration:

a) Income from employment;

b) Business and professional income;

c) Capital income;

d) Real estate income;

e) Pensions;

f) Social benefits;

g) Regular housing support;

h) Training scholarships.

 

For a more detailed consultation on these sources of income, you may refer to Section IV, of Chapter II, of the Higher Education Students Scholarship Scheme Regulation, amended by Order No. 7031-B/2015.

 

Taxpayer background

The student should present a regularised tax status (Order No. 627/2014).