Scholarships

The application period for the European Forum Alpbach 2023 starts on March 1, 2023.

If you have any questions regarding your application, send an email to scholarship@senza-confini.com.

EFA 2023 will last from 19 August to 2 September 2023, and the four tracks of this year’s Forum are:

Rallying for Climate Action
Fighting for Europe’s Economic Sovereignty
Securing Europe in a Multipolar World
Reinforcing Democracy in Europe

Our Mission

Our Club has been granting scholarships to the annual European Forum Alpbach (EFA) since 2003!

We want motivated students and young professionals from the Alpe-Adria region (Carinthia, Northern Italy, Slovenia) to experience what we have experienced in Alpbach: meaningful discussions, unforgettable moments, diversity as an added value.

Are you our next scholarship holder?

First time at EFA

As a first time scholarship holder, you are entitled to a scholarship that covers the participation fees and almost all your accommodation costs for your entire stay. We will support you during your time in Alpbach! Our team of returners will organise events, fireside talks, team building activities, and more. Therefore, a small self-contribution will be asked to cover the club activities during the forum, and to cover a small part of the accommodation costs.

Starting off with our summer event, passing through our welcome meeting in Alpbach, you have to attend the Forum for at least 14 days, which corresponds to the whole duration of the seminar program.

Who can apply

Our aim is to provide scholarships to young people who have ties and connection with the Alpe Adria region. Thus, we consider eligible everyone aged 18-30 who lives, studies or works in Carinthia, Slovenia or Northern Italy. You can also apply if you were born, grew up, and/or received most of your education in one of these regions.

NB: a C1 level of English is needed!

If you do not fulfill our requirements, please visit the official EFA scholarships homepage, where you can find other scholarship programmes which might be available for you: www.alpbach.org/en.

How to apply

We warmly invite you to apply for our scholarship for EFA23!

The application period will be from March 1 to April 14, 2023. To apply for the scholarship, please upload the following documents online (link will be published on March 1) in ONE PDF file:

CV in English WITHOUT a photo

Academic transcripts of your studies

Answer the following questions:

- Why do you want to go to Alpbach? What do you expect from EFA23? How can you contribute to CASC and the Forum in general? (max. 250 words)
- The four main themes of EFA are:
  1. Rallying for Climate Action
  2. Fighting for Europe’s Economic Sovereignty
  3. Securing Europe in a Multipolar World
  4. Reinforcing Democracy in Europe

What’s the track you are most interested in and why? (max. 300 words)

One main part of EFA’s program is fireside talks, which are personal and interactive discussions between a speaker and moderator, allowing the audience to be part of the discussion and ask questions. Click here to see a picture of one of our fireside chats with Jeffrey Sachs at EFA19.

If you were to organize a fireside talk, which speaker would you invite and what would you talk about? (max. 100 words)

We especially encourage applications from people with disabilities, members of ethnic or religious minorities, people with non-privileged socio-economic or non-academic backgrounds.

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail or on our social media channels.

When the selection process is over, we will send you an email to inform you about the outcome of the selection. We evaluate your time and efforts, and we are looking forward to receiving your application!

Selection Process and Criteria

Once the applications have been collected, Club Alpbach Senza Confini board proceeds with the selection of candidates. Each member of the board evaluates each candidate’s essay, whereas the academic and professional curricula are evaluated by the board members coming from the candidate’s region.

A preliminary ranking for every region (Austria, Italy, Slovenia) is given according to the evaluation results. From it a list of the top 7 candidates per region emerges, which is then discussed by the board in a joint session, until the winners are defined. In these discussions we take also in consideration the activism and extracurricular activities of the candidates which state a clear commitment to the European values, their potential growth during and after the European Forum Alpbach, and the commitment prospects for the Alpe Adria region.

The winners are announced during the month of May and invited to the Scholarship recipient ceremony, an event held in July and attended by local personalities and institutions. This year’s event will take place on July 1st and 2nd; scholarship recipients are expected to be present.

Returner scholarship

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Thoughts on EFA

EFA had so many surprising things to offer- all these amazing opportunities added a lot of value to my days at the Forum and offered yet another way to express myself.

Maria StronskaUkraine

The events at the Forum made me aware of how many things we don’t know about yet, or do not have complete information about. I am very happy that I got to deepen my understanding on certain issues and learn new things.

Dennis RiosaItaly

My highlight of Alpbach were certainly the incredible people I’ve met during my time there. I had discussions with new friends that I never would have expected, on both a personal and professional level.

Iris ZerlauthAustria

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