• Accounting
• Aerospace, Aeronautical & Marine Engineering
• Agriculture, Forestry, Animal & Related Sciences
• Animation
• Anthropology
• Applied Sciences & Professions
• Art
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• Behavioral Science
• Bio & Biomedical Engineering
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• Biomedicine
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• Business & Technology
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• Chemistry
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• Dentistry
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• Development & Social Policy and Planning
• Earth Sciences
• Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation
• Econometrics
• Economics
• Education
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics & Embedded Technology
• Energy Engineering
• Engineering & Business
• Engineering & Technology
• Engineering Physics
• Entrepreneurship
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology
• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Impacts & Human Health
• Environmental Sciences
• Environmental Systems Analysis
• Ethnic Studies
• European Law
• Family and Consumer Science
• Fashion, Textiles and Luxury goods
• Film and Theatre Studies
• Finance
• Gender Studies
• Geo-information
• Geography
• History
• Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Human Medicine
• Human Resource Management
• Humanities
• Hydrology & Water Management
• Information Science
• International Law
• Journalism and Mass Communications
• Language, Literature and Cultural Studies
• Law
• Life Sciences, Medicine & Health
• Management
• Management & Organisation
• Marketing studies
• Materials Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Military Science
• Music
• Natural Sciences
• Nursing
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Pharmacy
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Physiotherapy
• Political Science & International Relations
• Project Management
• Psychology
• Public Administration
• Public Health
• Public Law
• Religious Studies and Theology
• Social Sciences
• Social Work
• Sociology
• Soil Science & Soil Ecology
• Supply Chain Management & Logistics
• Sustainable Management, Policy & Governance
• Veterinary Medicine

The HEA will award a scholarship fund to the student (through the HEI that the student is attending) amounting to €10,000 for one study year. This fund is directed at covering student costs and living expenses.

• The HEI will be required to give a FULL fee waiver to the student for the scholarship year (i.e. tuition fee and registration charge are waived). This is the minimum matching funding requirement that institutions will be required to make to the scholarship scheme.

Applicants will need to apply for admission to a relevant Bachelor, Master or PhD programme offered by one of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs, listed in Appendix 1) as per that HEI’s admissions procedures. Applicants are expected to have a conditional or final offer of admission to the HEI at time of application and will be required to submit a copy of same. Should an applicant be in receipt of more than one offer, they should list their offers in order of preference in the application form. Final offers will be subject to admission to the relevant HEI. Applicants should make enquiries directly to the relevant institution prior to submission of an application to the HEA.

Eligible applicants are invited to submit applications to the HEA via the official application process. A marking system (total 100 marks) is part of the call with the relevant scores shown in brackets after the key selection criteria. The applications must cover the following, as requested in the application form:

• Academic qualifications, achievements and/or work experience (40 marks)

• Personal Statement (refer to the Candidate profile above). Applicants will be required to demonstrate:

• the benefit of becoming a GOI-IES Scholar; to themselves (personally and professionally), to Ireland, as well as their country of origin. (15 marks);
• how they will extend themselves beyond their project / studies to become actively involved in Irish society in order to maximize their academic / cultural exchange experience and to raise awareness of the GOI-IES scheme in Ireland and beyond (15 marks);
• the extent to which they have a long-term interest in Ireland and how they will promote links with Ireland during their time as Scholars, and also after as Alumni (15 marks).

• Two references (15 marks)