THE MARSHALL PLAN SCHOLARSHIPS
Special Call Now Open!
The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary – marking a quarter-century of dedicated support for transatlantic knowledge exchange between Austria and the United States. Since its founding, the Foundation has helped shape academic careers and strengthen international networks through its commitment to bilateral scientific collaboration.
To honor this milestone, the Foundation is launching a special Anniversary Call with 25 additional fellowships exclusively for students from the United States seeking to conduct research in Austria.
This initiative reflects our ongoing mission to promote academic mobility and deepen the transatlantic dialogue in research, while also recognizing the invaluable role our U.S. partner institutions have played over the years. In times of uncertainty, we believe bold actions are needed – and we hope this initiative will serve as both a celebration and a lasting investment in the next generation of scholars.
The special Anniversary Call will follow the exact same criteria and procedures as our regular Marshall Plan Scholarship calls. The application portal will be open from June 10 to August 31, 2025 and applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
We warmly encourage you to share this opportunity widely with your U.S. partner institutions and contacts to ensure that as many students as possible can benefit from this unique mobility program.
Our regular call for the Marshall Plan Scholarship Program will open as scheduled on September 1, 2025.
If you have any questions about the Anniversary Call, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re happy to assist: office@marshallplan.at
Program Overview
Funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, an academic exchange program was established to finance scholarships and fellowships for academic exchange between Austria and the U.S. with a special focus on universities of applied sciences and technical universities ('Fachhochschulen und Technische Universitäten’).
Since funding is always an obstacle, the Marshall Plan Foundation has been offering up to 1,000 scholarships for American and Austrian students since 2008. The funding mounts to up to € 10.000,- (at a minimum of € 4.000,-) for at least three months.
The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation invites U.S. and Austrian universities of applied sciences and technical universities to take part in this program and nominate their students or students from partner institutions who are interested in doing academic research abroad.
The program is focused primarily on research in the field of technical sciences. Participants will be asked to hand in a research paper or documentary report of their research work.
It is the Foundation’s goal to see more Austrians and Americans participate in exchange programs, thereby increasing mutual understanding and image.