Graduate Sponsorship Research Award (GSRA)

• GSRA international track candidates should submit a full or provisional acceptance letter from an approved international institution (as is the University of Groningen).
• All candidates must not exceed 35 years of age at the time of submission deadline.
• Employed students who are receiving salaries during their studies are not eligible.

Purposes: The primary benefit of this award is to build the local human capital and train our future scientific and academic leadership, the secondary one is to boost Qatar’s reputation as a leading capital of innovative and impactful research solving the foremost local, regional, and global challenges.

• for Master’s candidates: up to 2 years + 6 months extension of financial support
• for PhD candidates: up to 4 years + 1 year extension of financial support
• for MSc: monthly stipend USD 5.000
• for PhD: monthly stipend USD 6.250
• annual tuition fees up to USD 20.000
• annual standard health insurance
• settlement allowance
• annual travel ticket
• for PhDs: annual conferences and workshops allowance up to USD 5.000

Qatar Foundation (QF) established Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) in 2006.

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• Application opens: April
• Deadline for online proposal submission: early June
• Deadline of RO vetting: mid June
• Ineligible applicants notification: July
• Award Announcement: August

The grant application guide (GAG) is available for download from the GSRA web page.