International Refuge Plan Scholarships 2025-2026

Universitat de València, with the collaboration of the Generalitat Valenciana, announces scholarships for students who are fleeing war or human rights violations, particularly from Palestine, and who are potentially or effectively included in the scope of Law 12/2009, of 30 October, regulating the right to asylum and subsidiary protection.

Processing of the call

• Provisional list of admitted and non admitted applications (17/07/2025)
• Call, Rules and Regulations
• Annex II List of available master programmes
• Annex III Application Form
• Annex IV Motivation letter
• Publication in the Ad Board
• Publication in the DOGV (23/06/2025)
• Scholarship acceptation and declaration about taxation clearance: it should be sent to coop@uv.es within ten days after the reception of the awarding communication.
• Provisional list of accepted and non-accepted applications 

Object

The Refugee Scholarships are aimed at students whose personal and/or family situation has been affected by armed conflicts, violations of human rights, or humanitarian crises and who are unable to access or continue university studies in their country of origin or residence. Particularly, this Programme is aimed at students in any of these situations:

• Students with refugee status.
• Applicants or beneficiaries of international protection.
• Applicants or beneficiaries of stateless status.
• Applicants or beneficiaries of temporary protection.
• Students in vulnerable situations in their home countries, who have been forcibly displaced from living areas, who suffer human rights violations or violence.

The programme will offer:

• 2 scholarships for new students.
• 5 scholarships to renew support for students awarded UV refugee scholarship 2024.

Requirements

New applicants:

• Having been forced to abandon their university studies.
• Undergraduate students must have completed at least one course or 30 credits.
• Master's degree students must held a university degree that allows access to an official master's degree of the University of Valencia.
• Applicants must not hold Spanish nationality, dual nationality including Spanish, or the nationality of any other European Union member state.
• Applicants must be in one of the protection situations outlined in the first clause.

Renewals: 

• These are available for scholarship holders from the 2024 call who are continuing their studies at the UV. Students who received a scholarship for a master’s degree that has now been completed will not be elegible for renewal.

Amount

The duration of the grant will be one year, from September 1st, 2025 to August 31st, 2026.

The scholarship includes the following components:

• Full exemption from tuition and administrative fees for the 2025-26 academic year.
• Free accommodation and meals in a Residence Hall indicated by the University of Valencia.
• Health, repatriation, and civil liability insurance
• Spanish language course for the first semester of the academic year 2025- 2026 at the Language Centre of the University of Valencia, only for new applicants.
• Pocket money: 2,000 euros in a single endowment by nominative check, once the beneficiary arrives at the UV facilities or at the start of the 2025-26 academic year.
• A round-trip flight between the applicant’s location and Valencia, only for new applicants.

Applications

Deadline for submitting applications: 15 July 2025

To access the application, it is needed a registration in advance at the electronic headquarters of the Universitat de València. To do this, you must follow the following steps:

1. Select the image of the main header "seu electronicauv"
2. Select the icon "My procedures"
3. Select "User of the Headquarters"
4. Select at the bottom "Request Access"

The system will make available to the applicant a form that must be filled in and sent. Subsequently, an invitation email will be received to complete the registration process, activating the account. You can find help to the user at this link: https://ir.uv.es/1nO0oFV .

Once the registration process indicated in the previous paragraph has been completed, the interested party will submit their application by electronic registration of Universitat de València.

In the "General" tab the data to be completed are:

• Type Unit:                                        University, general and central services
• Body to which it is addressed:         International Relations and Cooperation Service
• Desired processing:                         Unit specific issues
• Select:                                              International Refuge Plan

Documentation to be submitted

• Passport.
• Written proof of the situations provided in the first article of the Call
• Application form (according to annex III) duly filled in and signed.
• Documentation accrediting the studies carried out partially or completely, taking into account that the corresponding bachelor's and master's degrees will only be issued in the event that the beneficiaries meet the requirements established in the regulations to obtain them.
• Motivation Letter according to Annex IV

For renewal scholarships no documentation needs to be submitted.

The documentation must be attached to the application in electronic file, pdf format.  The computer application only allows to present up to 5 electronic files. Several documents can be combined into a single file if necessary. In the latter case, we will try to group them according to the classification of this article.