UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD (UNDERGRADUATE) 2025 ENTRY

Application Deadline: 31 July 2025. 

LOCATION: United Kingdom

This prestigious award recognises academic excellence and is awarded to selected students starting a bachelors degree at the University of Surrey in September 2025.  It is open to self-funded international fee-paying students regardless of nationality or domicile. The scheme is application based and awards are decided by a scholarship awards panel. The panel will assess previous academic performance, predicted grades and the personal statement to make their decision.

ELIGIBILITY:

In order to be eligible, applicants must:

Be an overseas fee-paying student

Hold an offer to study a full-time bachelors degree programme at FHEQ Level 4 (first-year entry)

Be self-funded (you must be paying for your studies independently rather than being sponsored or in receipt of another scholarship) 

This Scholarship is not open to students from Surrey International Study Centre (SISC)

Applicants in receipt of the International Excellence scholarship will not be eligible for any other Surrey Scholarship.

Applications open 1 October 2024. Applications are reviewed monthly starting in October 2024 and will be reviewed more regularly between January and July 2025. You must have made your course application through UCAS by 30 June 2025. 

If you have applied to University of Surrey through UCAS by 30 June, the applications for this scholarship will close on 31 July 2025. You must have an offer from the University to complete the Scholarship application form. Applications without a valid student ID/UCAS ID and offer will not be assessed. 

The scholarship is application based. Surrey offer holders may apply via the link below. 

Please email international@surrey.ac.uk if you have any queries about this scholarship.

BENEFIT:

The scholarship is awarded as a £5,000 fee waiver

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CVCEPHOTO INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025.

LOCATION: Spain

CVCEPHOTO is the International Mountain Activity Photo Contest organized by Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, mountaineering club from San Sebastian.

ELIGIBILITY:

The contest is open to all amateur or professional photographers around the world. Participation is free. It’s understood that underage participants have parent or tutor authorization to participate. If they should win the contest, such authorization will be required.

Categories: “MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY”: Any image related to sport activities (non-motorized) that take place on mountains. (For instance: alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding…)

Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photographs. There won´t be accepted any photos previously submitted to this contest. Only pictures taken by digital cameras are accepted.

Works must be submitted in JPEG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,200 pixels wide (if a vertical image), converted to sRGB color space with the profile being embedded in the file. All digital images must be 2 megabytes or smaller. Works must not include frames or footers. Works must be submitted exclusively through the ENTRY FORM. CVCEPHOTO will contact participants through the email they provide in this Entry form.

BENEFIT:

First Prize: 1,500 Euros + Exclusive and unique trophy created by Iñigo Arístegui, artist.

2nd Prize: 800 Euros.

3rd Prize: 500 Euros.

17 Honorable mentions: DIPLOMAS. – “BBK MENDI FILM BILBAO-BIZKAIA Poster” Prize: 800 Euros, and

BBK MENDI FILM Poster. – “EITB AWARD” Prize: 800 Euros.

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