NEURUS Fellows Program

NEURUS is an international consortium of universities dedicated to the collaborative study of urban and development issues. The origin of acronym NEURUS derives from the consortium’s original title when first established in 1998: the Network for European and U.S. Regional and Urban Studies consisted of six universities, three in Europe and three in the United States.

A centerpiece of the consortium is the NEURUS Fellows program, a framework of agreements and supportive environments designed to give scholars and students flexible opportunities to enhance their study of urban and regional issues from comparative perspectives. Through distance learning courses, NEURUS also encourages the participation of students and scholars from other universities, wherever they are located. 

Corvinus University of Budapest has been a member of the network since 2021. The goal of the NEURUS scholarship program is to support one Corvinus student each year in the form of a scholarship, enabling them to conduct research on urban and regional topics (such as urban economics, housing management, real estate development, urban environment, urban sustainability, municipal management, local community development, transportation, etc.) at one of NEURUS’s partner universities in the USA.

During the one-year research program, the scholarship recipient commits to conducting research for a minimum of 10 weeks and a maximum of 14 weeks at the host university in the USA. The NEURUS USA partner universities that were available in previous years include:

– Arizona State University, Tempe
– University of California, Irvine
– University of Washington, Seattle
– University of Florida, Gainesville
– University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Applicants may indicate their preference for one of the above universities, but the decision regarding which university will host the student, and thus where the scholarship will be awarded, is made at the discretion of the decision-makers, depending on the capacity of the partner universities.

The amount of the scholarship in previous years was $7,500 (USD).

Further information about the network: http://www.neurusinfo.org