Scholarships for Social Needs

Exceptional Grant Based on Social Needs is a one-off cash benefit available under open calls for applications upon an extraordinary event taking place in a student’s social situation. Calls are announced by the Vice-Rector for Education with the consent of the Student Council. Scholarships are available for students with an active student status attending a full-time undergraduate or a second-cycle or a single-cycle master’s programme, however, only one application may be submitted relevant to a circumstance during an academic year.

Applications may be submitted in writing at any time of the year upon some extraordinary events taking place in the social situation of a student or a student’s family. Extraordinary events may include, for example, a long-term, serious illness, death or other significant change in the social situation and they are classified into three categories (minor, moderate, severe), according to regulations for application, which are detailed in the current year’s call for applications.

Applications must always include some documents to prove changes in circumstances (original documents must be presented and submitting copies thereof is sufficient), as well as copies of bank account statement(s) of a student’s sponsor(s). Students who have not applied for a Regular Grant Based on Social Needs must obtain additional certificates. They include a certificate issued by the Central Office for 


Administrative and Electronic Public Services (formerly Population Register Office); a certificate to prove earnings of sponsors living in the same household with the applicant; and birth certificate(s) of dependent(s) living in the same household with the applicant, if younger than 7 years. For dependent(s) of over 16 years of age living in the same household with the applicant, certificate(s) proving learner/student status must also be provided. As these certificates are required for the social situation survey process for the Regular Grant Based on Social Needs, you can find more detailed information on such official documents in Presidential Committee Order No. 37/2020. (VI. 29.).

Students having applied for a Regular Grant Based on Social Needs in the given semester are not required to upload these certificates again. 

The purpose of the Regular Grant Based on Social Needs is to provide financial support to full-time students based on their social situations. This scholarship is awarded for one semester; therefore, students may apply at the beginning of both the autumn and the spring semesters. As its name suggests, this is a regular scholarship; therefore, the amount awarded will be disbursed on a monthly basis for a period of five months.

Students will be given a score reflecting their social status determined on the basis of, among other things, statuses (e.g. pupil, employee, pensioner), incomes and health statuses of persons making up a household with the student; the student’s housing conditions; distance of the student’s permanent residence from the University, etc. Any information provided in the application must be substantiated by official documents. You can find information helping you to obtain these certificates in Presidential Committee Order 37/2020. (VI. 29.) and also in the Warning and Completion Guide at the beginning of the Application Form for Regular Social Scholarships opened in Neptun. You are recommended to read the Order carefully as it details all documents to be obtained.

Extra points may be allocated to students in case a student or the student’s relatives have some chronic illness, as listed in the table below.