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UAL INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

Application Deadline: Friday 27 March 2026 (Round 1)

LOCATION: United Kingdom

This scholarship provides a tuition fee waiver for a full-time or part-time taught master’s course at 1 of UAL’s Colleges and Institutes. Up to 288 scholarships are available for the 26/27 academic year.

ELIGIBILITY:

Criteria 1: You must hold an offer to study a full-time or part-time taught master’s course at one of UAL’s Colleges and Institutes starting in 2026/27.

Your course must offer either a Grad Dip, M ARCH, MA, MFA, MBA, MRes or MSc qualification and be offered at one of UAL’s Colleges or Institutes. Courses run by UAL Online are not eligible for this scholarship.

You are not eligible to apply if you already hold a UK postgraduate taught qualification (or one at an equivalent level) from studies undertaken in the UK.

Criteria 2: You need to qualify for the Overseas category of tuition fee status. Read more about Postgraduate Tuition Fees.

Criteria 3: You have achieved, or are predicted to achieve, an upper second-class honours degree or above at undergraduate level. Recognised equivalent qualifications are also accepted. To check your eligibility, read the International Academic Qualifications Equivalency (PDF 1,015 KB).

You will need to provide your transcripts as proof of your qualification.

If you have not yet received your results, you will need to provide evidence of your predicted grade as part of your application. When you receive your results, you will need to provide further evidence that you have achieved your predicted grade to be granted the award.

Criteria 4: You must provide a personal statement as part of your scholarship application that responds to the following questions (maximum 350 words per question):

Please tell us about how your achievements and experience gained both within and outside of school/university demonstrate your suitability for this award.

Please tell us how you intend to use the qualification you will be studying to support your future plans.

What contribution do you intend to make to university life whilst studying? How do you feel being part of the UAL community will help you in achieving your career aspirations?

You will need to hold an offer for your postgraduate course before applying for this scholarship.

BENEFIT:

£10,000 tuition fee waiver for a full-time or part-time taught master’s course

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CALL COAL PRIZE 2026 : THE NIGHT

Application Deadline: April 28, 2026

LOCATION: France

The COAL Prize 2026 is dedicated to the theme of night. The COAL Prize invites artists to defend the night as a common good, a major ecological issue for the regeneration of life, a refuge, a diversity of languages to be celebrated, and a right to rest and to darkness.

ELIGIBILITY:

Ten artists are nominated by a selection committee of professionals for their projects submitted in response to this international call for entries. The Prix COAL and its special mentions are awarded from among these ten projects by a jury made up of representatives of the partner organizations and personalities from the fields of art and ecology. In addition, all the entries considered by COAL and the selection committee help to make known artists and projects that may be solicited or promoted according to other opportunities and actions carried out by the association and its partners.

Artistic value, relevance to the issues, originality (new approaches, themes, or perspectives), pedagogy (ability to convey a message and raise awareness), social and participatory approach (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal impact), eco-design, project feasibility, and collaboration with nature conservation actors are taken into account. The COAL Prize supports artistic projects in progress or forthcoming. Its grant is not intended to cover the full production costs of the project and should be considered as support for its development.

The application file must consist of the following documents, compiled into a single PDF file named SURNAME_First name_2026_Project title (the file must not exceed 30 MB):

The application form, available for download HERE

A detailed description of the proposed project, presenting its artistic dimension and its relevance to the theme, as well as a technical note and a budget estimate

At least two HD visuals illustrating the project

A Curriculum Vitae and an artistic portfolio

All proposals must be submitted by 23:59 on 28 April 2026 at the latest, via the COAL server :  upload.projetcoal.org

At the same time, a call for projects is open for the COAL Student Prize, aimed at students from French arts and culture schools. The art projects appel à projets student call rigth here

BENEFIT:

The artist awarded the COAL Prize receives a grant of €12,000 and a creative residency at the heart of the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation, supported by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and those of the Domaine de Belval. 

The artist awarded the Special Jury Prize receives a grant of €3,000. – The artist awarded the Ateliers Médicis mention benefits from a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil, in connection with the regional forest of Bondy. The artist awarded the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris mention, also known as Le Vaisseau, receives a grant of €2,000 and will be invited to exhibit at the Parisian institution.

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