The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation established an academic exchange program to fund scholarships and fellowships for academic exchange between Austria and the US with a special focus on Universities of Applied Sciences and Technical Universities (“Fachhochschulen und Technische Universitäten”) and to open up and provide for transnational mobility.

Participants applying for a scholarship are students of Austrian and American Universities, studying science and engineering, who have an outstanding record of achievement in their field of study and plan to stay abroad at least for three months. All actions have a bottom-up approach, i.e. research fields/topics are chosen freely by the applicants.

The duration of the research stay has to be at least 3 months.
The scholarship ranges between € 4,000 and € 10,000:

• Minimum 90 days (3 months) – 119 days: € 4,000
• 120 days (4 months) – 149 days: € 5,000
• more than 5 months (150 days): € 6,000
• from 195 days: additional € 1,500
• Master students: additional € 1,500
• PhD students: additional € 2,500