If you have a different citizenship but are enrolled or employed at a CEEPUS university, you might be eligible under special conditions. In any case you need to present an “equal status document”. For students it is a document, that proves you have the same student rights as a citizen in your country of residence, e.g. a document by your home university in a CEEPUS member state that you are fully enrolled as a regular student. Faculty members need to present a confirmation of employment at a CEEPUS university. In some CEEPUS countries this regulation is restricted to EU/EWR-citizens only.
Please note: If you are a registered student at a university of a CEEPUS country and the country is waiving the tuition fee, this might be regarded as receiving a grant according to local legislation and bar you from applying for a second grant - i.e a CEEPUS grant. Therefore, always ask your home National CEEPUS Office for further national restrictions and information before applying.
The following regulations apply for holders of "equal status" documents, refugees and stateless persons. Please have in mind that only applications for a CEEPUS grant defined in the CEEPUS agreement and its Work Programme are eligible:
- no double grants shall be allowed (i.e. simultaneously receiving two grants in the host country)
- students need to submit a proof of full-time student status (upload document)
- proof of "equal status" (upload document)
- teachers applying for a CEEPUS grant should be employed full-time by a university participating in a CEEPUS network or umbrella network.
- students are required to apply to the National CEEPUS Offices in the country where they hold full-time student status
- double citizenship: applicants need to decide on a citizenship when first applying and use this citizenship for all following CEEPUS applications;