Our Scholarship Program

Since 2020, the Heinrich Boell Foundation (hbs) Tbilisi Office cooperates with the PhD program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University. Every year, hbs Tbilisi Office offers monthly scholarships of 400 Euro equivalent in GEL for two PhD students accepted for the PhD program in Social and Cultural Anthropology. The scholarship program can last for three years.

Selected scholarship applicants are obligated to meet all the requirements set by the PhD program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University. The scholarship will be renewed every year based on scholarship holders’ fulfillment of program requirements and academic performance. Furthermore, scholarship holders will be required to submit every year a report of their PhD fieldwork or an academic article which will be published on the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s website, and/or participate in discussions/conferences organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation.