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MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The Faculty of Science and Engineering is proud to offer 30 International scholarships to students from a selection of countries commencing their studies in 2024.  

The Manchester International Excellence scholarships are open to fee-paying undergraduate students from Bangladesh, Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Vietnam, Zimbabwe. 

ELIGIBILITY:

To be considered for this scholarship, you need to meet the following criteria: 

be an international fee-paying, self-funded student from one of the countries listed above;

be holding an offer of a place for a full-time undergraduate course in the Faculty of Science and Engineering;

have accepted this offer and made The University of Manchester your firm choice on UCAS by the end of June;

maintain a 60% average performance each year of your undergraduate studies and engage with marketing activities to support future students who apply from these regions;

ensure you’re fully registered with your Department on an undergraduate degree course as a new student.

There will be no separate application form. All eligible international students who are holding an offer of a place within the Faculty of Science and Engineering will automatically be considered for a scholarship. Awards will be given on academic merit. 

BENEFIT:

Awards will be made to the highest-performing applicants and based on the information provided in the UCAS application. For 2024 entry, there are 30 competitive scholarships available.  The award is £3,500 per year (up to 4 years of study). 

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JOURNALISM AI INNOVATION CHALLENGE, SUPPORTED BY THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE

Application Deadline: 10 October 2024 [23:59, GMT].

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects/tools from these news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new formats across mobile, video and audio and identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue.

ELIGIBILITY:

Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.

Eligible applicants must have a verifiable digital presence (such as a website primarily providing journalistic content) and have been in full operation – and active with recent content – for at least 12 months preceding the call for applications

Eligible applicants must be able to launch, implement, and measure the impact of the grant on their organisation within a maximum nine (9) month period.

This is not a reporting or storytelling grant and funding must not be used to report and produce stories primarily. Eligible ideas will use AI to focus and develop solutions for these thematic areas:

Help fight misinformation and disinformation

Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.

Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.

You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a short report of your performance at the end of the programme.

BENEFIT:

Grants will be awarded as follows:

10 ideas will receive $250,000 each

25 ideas will receive $50,000 each

Organisations will express which amount they are applying for in the application form.

Applicants may work on an existing proof-of-concept or submit an entirely new idea that they would like to develop into a working prototype by the end of the programme. (Please refer to Application Terms and Conditions for details)

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