AFEPA Consortium, coordinated by the University of BonnScholarship

Up to €33,600 AFEPA Master's Scholarship

Feb 12, 2027 23:59:00 Europe/Berlin

Opportunity type

Scholarship

Funding

Partially Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Feb 12, 2027 23:59:00 Europe/Berlin

About this opportunity

AFEPA is a two-year European Master's in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis, run jointly by the University of Bonn, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy, UCLouvain in Belgium and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Its EU Erasmus Mundus funding has ended, but for the 2027 intake the AFEPA consortium itself offers four scholarships: two paying 1,400 euros a month and two paying 700 euros a month, each for 24 months. You ask to be considered by expressing interest in the scholarship inside your normal AFEPA application.

What you get:

Two scholarships of 1,400 euros a month for 24 months, 33,600 euros in total
Two scholarships of 700 euros a month for 24 months, 16,800 euros in total
A 120 ECTS joint European Master's taught in English, with a year at each of two of the four partner universities
Two one-week AFEPA summer schools with the whole cohort
The option of a thesis stay at an associated partner in Chile, Spain or Kenya

What you'll do:

Year 1 at your first-choice partner university: microeconomic theory, quantitative methods and policy courses
Year 2 at a second partner university: a major in one of agri-food and trade policy, environmental and natural resource policy, agribusiness and market analysis, market and consumer research, or development policy
An optional internship in the second year
A 30 ECTS master's thesis, presented at the end of the second year

Key dates:

Applications for the 2027 cohort open 15 October 2026
Applications close 12 February 2027
Results go to non-European applicants in March and to European applicants between April and June
The academic year starts in September 2027

More information:

Admission rules and the scholarship FAQ are on the AFEPA Application and Admission page
Tuition for every combination of universities is in the AFEPA 2026-27 fees sheet and handbook
Questions go to info@afepa.eu

Who can apply

Open to applicants from all countries
A bachelor's degree of at least 180 ECTS with an overall average of at least B or equivalent; final-year students can be admitted provisionally if the degree is awarded before enrolment
At least 24 ECTS in economics, including one microeconomics and one statistics course. Higher minimums apply for some first-year universities: 90 ECTS in economics for SLU, 42 for Bonn, 32 across four named areas for UCSC
English: TOEFL iBT 90 (20 in writing) or IELTS 6.5 with no section below 5.5, not older than two years. Duolingo is not accepted
Applicants from China, India and Vietnam need an APS certificate to study at the University of Bonn
Apply online with one PDF of up to 4 MB: ID or passport, CV, transcripts and diploma, school-leaving certificate, language certificate and a motivation letter of no more than 300 words
Express your interest in the scholarship during the application

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Good to know

+Run by four established European universities, coordinated from the University of Bonn's Institute for Food and Resource Economics
+Open to applicants from all countries, for both admission and the scholarships
+No application fee named on the application page, the FAQ, the fees sheet or the 2026-27 handbook
+The top two scholarships add up to 33,600 euros over two years
+Published outcomes: 90 percent employment rate, alumni at WFP, IDRC and a German federal ministry

Worth checking yourself

!These are not Erasmus Mundus scholarships. AFEPA's EU Erasmus Mundus funding has ended; the four scholarships come from the AFEPA consortium itself
!Only four scholarships for the whole intake, and AFEPA does not say how winners are chosen beyond expressing interest in the application
!The scholarship FAQ still prints last cycle's deadlines (13 February 2026 for non-Europeans, 30 June 2026 for Europeans). The 2027 application closes 12 February 2027; apply by then and confirm the scholarship date with info@afepa.eu
!The scholarships pay a monthly allowance only. Tuition and administrative fees are paid to the universities: for the 2026-27 intake, two-year totals ran from 770 to 7,694 euros for European students and from 1,080 to 20,580 euros for non-European students, depending on which two universities you attend. 2027-28 figures are not yet published
!AFEPA may charge up to 300 euros for each of the two compulsory summer schools, and students pay their own travel and accommodation
!Applicants from China, India and Vietnam need an APS certificate for the University of Bonn, obtained separately at their own cost
!Non-European students need a visa and must prove they can support themselves for the two years
!The application platform was not yet open on 13 October 2026, so the form itself could not be checked for a fee
!No age limit is stated
!You apply for the scholarship inside the main AFEPA application, which closes 12 February 2027. AFEPA's scholarship paragraph still prints last year's dates, so check with info@afepa.eu if you are from Europe and plan to apply later
!The application form opens 15 October 2026

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