Applications open for the ESPOL Scholarship and the Susan Strange Prize

ESPOL Scholarship

The ESPOL Scholarship is open to ESPOL students enrolling in Year 2 or Year 3 of the Bachelor’s programme, or Year 1 or Year 2 of the Master’s programme. Designed to help cover tuition fees, the scholarship is awarded in the amount of €1,000 or €2,000.

Selection criteria

Applications will be assessed according to the following criteria:

• Academic excellence, as demonstrated by the applicant’s academic record (ranking among the top 10% of their cohort during the 2025–2026 academic year);
• The applicant’s motivation;
• The relevance of the applicant’s career plan to ESPOL’s academic programmes.

How to apply

Applicants must submit the following documents no later than 3 July 2026 at 11:59 p.m.:

• A cover letter;
• A curriculum vitae (CV).

Eligible candidates have already received an email containing all the information and application details.

Additional Information

The ESPOL Scholarship may be combined with the merit scholarship awarded by the Fondation de l’Université Catholique de Lille, as well as with CROUS grants. Its purpose is to help students finance their tuition fees.

However, it cannot be combined with schemes that already cover all or part of these fees (such as Campus France scholarships, Feron-Vrau grants, etc.).

An internal committee chaired by a member of the ESPOL management team will meet during July 2026 to review applications and award the scholarships.

The full ESPOL Scholarship regulations are available on the Agora platform.

Susan Strange Prize

The Susan Strange Prize annually rewards the best Master’s thesis in Political Science and the best Bachelor’s research project submitted and defended at ESPOL during the academic year.

Awarded jointly by ESPOL and ESPOL-LAB, the prize comes with a €1,000 award.

Selection criteria

Eligible applicants must have obtained:

• At least 17/20 for a Bachelor’s research project;
• At least 15/20 for a Master’s thesis.

How to apply

Following the publication of the final academic results, students wishing to apply must submit, no later than 3 July 2026 at 11:59 p.m., to Ozcan Agzibuyuk (ozcan.agzibuyuk@univ-catholille.fr) a document of no more than two pages including:

• Information about their research work (title, supervisor, date of defence, and final grade);
• A summary of the main arguments and findings of their research;
• An explanation of the originality and contribution of their topic.

Additional information

The results will be announced during July 2026 following the deliberations of a jury composed of ESPOL faculty members and chaired by Sabine Weiland, Acting Director of ESPOL-LAB.

The full Susan Strange Prize regulations are available on the Agora platform.