International students have different options available for financial support. The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic offers scholarships for study stay within accredited study/doctoral programmes or academic stay at public universities or institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for:
• foreign university students for 5-month stays
• foreign PhD students for 5-month stays (age between 23 and 35);
• foreign academics for 3-month stays (age between 30 and 50).
Holders of a scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic are exempt from administration fees for granting of a permit and the extension of a permit for temporary stay in Slovakia pursuant to internal legal regulations of the Slovak Republic.
For more information go to: www.studyin.sk, www.minedu.sk.
Visegrad Scholarship – International Visegrad Fund
The International Visegrad Fund offers Master’s and Post-Master’s schol¬ar¬ships awarded to selected schol¬ars for peri¬ods of 1 or 2 semes¬ters at public universities in Slovakia. http://visegradfund.org/scholarships/.
Action Austria – Slovakia, Cooperation in Science and Education
The Programme is administered by SAIA, n. o. Through the programme, financial support is provided to Austrian PhD students to support their study/research stays (scholarships) or to create partnerships with other PhD students doing research in the same or closely related field (cooperation projects). Students from the 2nd level of university education (e.g. Master students) apply for scholarships for stays in Slovakia connected with their master thesis preparation. Students and PhD students can also apply for summer language courses in Slovakia www.scholarships.at.
Trnava university grants its regular students with financial support of social scholarship and motivation scholarship. Social scholarship from the state budget can be awarded to full-time students upon their written application for awarding of social scholarship, accompanied by relevant documents. Motivation scholarship may be awarded to students with excellent study results.