Undergraduate Grant Descriptions
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Summer Travel for Thesis Research Grants
Grants for Undergraduate Student Organizations
Summer Travel for Thesis Research Grants
Purpose: Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants fund
summer research in Europe for juniors in the Harvard Faculty of Arts
and Sciences preparing senior theses on political, historical, economic,
social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary
Europe. Grants must be used for research abroad during the summer
break.
Award: The maximum award is $6,000. In some cases,
funding will be shared with other grant programs or Centers. Funding
is provided by the Krupp Foundation and by the Minda de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies.
Deadline: Applications for 2008 summer travel grants are due in the Office of Career Services at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008. You must apply using the common application (CARAT), available from the OCS website.
Note: Many students apply to multiple Centers and
grant programs. Centers will often share funding of projects, but
please note that the total amount awarded will not exceed the amount
requested or the maximum grant of the Center.
Grant Restrictions: Grants may not be used for language study, for
research expenses in Cambridge, for travel within the US, for special
equipment such as tape recorders, or for fees for transcription or
translation. Students are expected to review discount student travel
resources for housing and airfare, and should be aware that these book
quickly and prices may change. Applicants will not be permitted to
update their budget after it has been submitted.
Ariadne Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants
to Greece
Purpose: Ariadne Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants
fund summer research in Greece for undergraduate students preparing
senior theses on political, historical, economic, social, cultural,
and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Greece.
Award: The maximum award is $6,000. Funding is provided
by a gift from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Center
for European Studies.
Deadline: Applications for 2008 summer travel grants are due in the Office of Career Services at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008. You must apply using the common application (CARAT), available from the OCS website.
Grants for Undergraduate Student Organizations
Purpose: CES encourages student activities that
promote a greater understanding of European history, politics, society
and culture.
Eligibility: Officially recognized Harvard student
organizations can apply for funds towards the cost of an event whose
focus is Europe.
Award: up to $500
Deadline: Rolling deadline. For more details, please
contact CES Student Programs Coordinator.
