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The mandatory application documents are (valid for intake 2025):

  • All templates are available in the Download Section. Regarding requirements, carefully read our MARIHE Guideline for Applicants.
  • NEW: For intake 2025, we will have a 2-step application process.
  • If you face difficulties in submitting the documents until the deadline, please immediately inform MARIHE secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

In the 1st step, you are asked to submit (deadline is 22 November 2024, 11:00 p.m. CET):

1. Application Form for participation in MARIHE as a scholarship holder OR self-funded student (intake 2025)

2.  Copy of passport / personal identification card

3.  Curriculum Vitae (CV) in Europass format (English template)

  • Do NOT include a photograph!

4.  Letter of Motivation (LoM)

  • For topic and length of LoM, please see template.

5.  University diplomas/degree certificates from prior university studies

  • Instructions for applicants who are unable to present the university diploma until the application deadline: If you receive your first degree certificate after the application deadline, you can ask to be granted an extension for this document until 27 January 2025 by filling in the signed “Statement on expected first university degree” (please see template in the Download Section) and submit it as application document No. 5 until the application deadline. The address for sending a scanned copy of the degree certificate after the application period has ended and until 27 January 2025 is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
  • IMPORTANT: Providing us with your conferred first university degree after 27 February 2025 is too late for the current application period (student intake 2025), due to the related admission and visa process (in case of selection). Provisional certificates, letters of progress or similar documents cannot be accepted due to admission reasons (in case of selection). Since a conferred and, if applicable, legalized first university degree quantified as three years of studies/180 ECTS is an admission requirement, MARIHE Consortium cannot make any exceptions. We kindly ask you to consider applying next year (for intake 2026).

6.  Transcripts of records from all university studies

7.  Proof of proficiency in English language (certificate with scores from TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, Cambridge C1 Advanced, Cambridge C2 Proficiency)

  • Find out more on requirements for test certificates and for what reasons an applicant can be exempted from English language certificate.
  • PLEASE NOTE: MARIHE consortium can only accept the five English language test certificates listed, and can only grant exemptions on basis of the three cases explained. Letters issued by universities stating the proficiency in English or similar documents are not accepted.
  • If you meet one of the criteria for being exempted from submitting an English language test certificate, please upload as application document No. 7 the respective document (adequate degree or secondary education as described).
  • Instructions for applicants who are unable to present the English language test until the application deadline: If you receive your English test results after the application deadline, you can ask to be granted an extension for this document until 27 January 2025 by filling in the signed “Statement on late submission of English test score” (please see template in the Download Section) and submit it as application document No. 7 until the application deadline. The address for sending a scanned copy of the English test score certificate after the application period has ended and until 27 January 2025 is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

8.  Two letters of recommendation

  • Please see the information to give to the referees in the Download Section.

9.  Essay

  • For topic and length of essay, please see template.

To minimize unconscious biases during the review process, please do not include a personal photograph (portrait) into your CV. The identification document and the English test certificate which will contain a personal photograph will only be considered during the formal eligibility check, but not during the first step of the review process.

After the 1st review, you will be notified about the result (shortlisted for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship/ shortlisted as a self-funded student/ rejected).

In the 2nd step, shortlisted applicants are asked to submit (deadline is 27 January 2025, 11:00 p.m. CET):

10.  Video

  • For topic and length of the video, please see MARIHE Guideline for Applicants.
  • Please note: Based on the first review result, shortlisted applicants will need to mandatory submit a video within 10 days of notice! If the candidate fails to submit application document no. 10, he/she will be rejected due to formal reasons. If you face technical difficulties, please immediately inform MARIHE Secretariat.

After the 2nd review, you will again be notified about the result (placement on scholarship main list/ placement on scholarship reserve list/ placment on self-funded student main list/ placement on self-funded reserve list/ rejected).

  • In general, all application documents should be prepared in the English language, or, if they are originals in other languages (e.g university diploma), should be translated into English according to our requirements.
  • The use of AI (artificial intelligence) has to be clearly declared! Otherwise the application will be rejected due to formal reasons. Cf. instructions on the templates and the Guideline for Applicants.
  • For technical specifications for the application documents, please refer to the Guideline for Applicants.