European Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC) DIGISOC Scholarship Programme Academic Year 2...

Palacký University (Faculty of Law) issues the DIGISOC Scholarship Programme for students enrolled in the second year of the Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship for the 2026/2027 academic year, with a total budget of €11,000 and a maximum individual award of €2,000 gross. Applications must be submitted via the DIGISOC OpenOlat platform by 14 December 2026 at 23:59 Brussels time and eligibility requires EU or Digital Europe Programme associated-country citizenship, second-year enrolment, at least 60 DIGISOC credits and completion of all courses in which the student was enrolled. Awards are allocated by a joint Evaluation Committee based on the 2025/2026 weighted DIGISOC grade average, with fixed amounts for the top three (€2,000, €1,750 and €1,500) and the remaining qualifying applicants sharing the residual budget subject to a €1,000 cap per recipient.

What it funds

Summary

Palacký University is offering scholarships to support students in the second year of the Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC). Total call budget is €11,000; individual awards are paid once for one academic year and may reach up to €2,000 (gross) per recipient.

Who can apply

How to apply & deadline

Submit a single application folder (signed application letter, matriculation number and supporting documents) on the DIGISOC OpenOlat platform by 14 December 2026, 23:59 CET. Applications must be in English; supporting documents accepted in English, Italian, German or Czech (other languages require certified translation). See platform link and published results 1.

Footnotes

1. 1Application platform and publications: lms.uibk.ac.at and programme costs and scholarships page digitalsociety4innovation.eu.

Opportunity summary

Palacký University (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) issues a Call for Application under the DIGISOC Scholarship Programme reserved for students enrolled in the second year (academic year 2026/2027) of the Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC). The call is launched by Palacký University and the financial support is provided directly by Palacký University; the publication on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal is for visibility only and does not make this an EU action.

Eligible Applicant Types

Eligible applicants are individual students enrolled in the DIGISOC Joint Master’s Programme who meet the specific eligibility criteria defined in Article 2. This is not open to organisations, companies, research institutes or external individuals not enrolled in DIGISOC.

Funding Type

This opportunity is a scholarship (grant) provided as direct financial support to eligible individual students. Disbursement is a one-off monetary payment by bank transfer to the recipient's account.

Consortium Requirement

Beneficiary Scope (Geographic Eligibility)

Geographic eligibility is limited to DIGISOC students holding EU citizenship or citizenship of DEP Associate Countries. The call is administered by Palacký University in Czechia but applicants are drawn from the DIGISOC JMP cohort across the three awarding universities.

Target Sector and Thematic Focus

Mentioned Countries

Project Stage / Expected Maturity

Funding Amount (range and scale)

Application Type and Submission Method

Single-stage, open call limited to DIGISOC students. Applicants must upload a single folder containing required documents to the DIGISOC OpenOlat platform at the specified repository link. The application and supporting documents must be submitted electronically via OpenOlat before the deadline.

Nature of Support

Application Stages and Evaluation Process

Single-stage application with an eligibility and merit evaluation by a joint Evaluation Committee. The committee verifies eligibility, ranks applicants by weighted grade average and assigns awards per the model described in Article 5. The evaluation process is to be completed no later than 15 days after the application deadline.

Success Rates

Not specified in the call. Success rate depends on number of eligible applicants and distribution model. Because the total budget is €11,000 and top fixed awards consume part of the budget, not all applicants fulfilling the minimum average threshold will necessarily receive the maximum distributed amount. The committee will publish rankings and amounts; applicants with average below the threshold (26.99) are not eligible for awards under the residual-distribution rule.

Co-funding Requirement

No applicant co-funding requirement is stated. Awards are scholarships paid by Palacký University; there is no requirement for other matching funds from applicants or third parties.

Templates and Application Form Structure

The DIGISOC website will publish application and documentation guidelines and an Acceptance letter template. The call lists Annex 1 as a signed Application Letter required in submissions. Applicants should prepare a single folder containing: signed Application Letter (Annex 1), matriculation number, and supporting documentation proving the three eligibility criteria (citizenship documentation, enrolment in second year, transcript showing at least 60 DIGISOC credits and completion of enrolled courses).

Evaluation and Awarding

A joint Evaluation Committee appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Palacký University reviews applications and consists of one representative from each of the three DIGISOC degree-awarding universities plus at least one DIGISOC student representative. The committee's judgement is final. Rankings and assigned amounts will be published on the DIGISOC Costs and Scholarships web page and the awarding universities' websites; publication serves as official notification.

Disbursement, obligations and renunciation

Scholarships are paid in one instalment by bank transfer to the student’s IBAN account. To receive payment, the awardee must provide enrollment certificate, tax code, bank details, and passport copy to Palacký University, Faculty of Law. If an awardee withdraws after acceptance, they must notify the programme coordinator in writing so ranking can be adjusted. If a recipient transfers to another degree course during 2026/2027 the recipient is considered to have renounced and must return the full scholarship amount unless an exceptional, motivated case is approved by the joint Evaluation Committee.

Contacts and further information

Comprehensive answers to categorisation questions

Footnote reference for award allocation rules and publication of results 1.

Footnotes

1. 1Award allocation: top three fixed amounts are €2,000; €1,750; €1,500 respectively. Other qualifying applicants (average above 26.99) share the remaining budget divided equally but capped at €1,000 each. Rankings and awarded amounts will be published on the DIGISOC Costs and Scholarships web page and awarding universities' websites; such publication constitutes official notification.

Opportunity overview

This is a targeted scholarship call issued by Palacký University for students enrolled in the second year of the European Joint Master’s Programme in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship during the 2026/2027 academic year. The scholarship supports academic excellence and helps offset tuition fees, summer schools, short-term mobility and living costs. The call is published on the EU Funding and Tenders Portal for visibility, but it is not an EU action. The financial support is awarded and administered directly by Palacký University under its own responsibility 1.

The underlying DIGISOC programme is delivered jointly by Palacký University in Czechia, the University of Innsbruck in Austria and the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. The scholarship call concerns existing DIGISOC students and is not an application route for admission to the master’s programme.

Key facts

Purpose and eligible expenditure

The scholarship is intended to provide financial support during participation in the DIGISOC joint master’s programme. The call identifies the following purposes:

The call does not prescribe a fixed expenditure budget or a reimbursement model. It provides a gross lump-sum style scholarship paid to the selected student in one instalment. No percentage funding rate applies because the award is not calculated as a proportion of eligible costs.

Who can apply

Applicants must satisfy all stated eligibility conditions. The call is restrictive and is aimed only at students already enrolled in DIGISOC.

Students who do not meet every condition should not assume that evidence of financial need, academic merit or participation in the wider DIGISOC programme is sufficient. The specific call does not list general admission applicants, first-year students, non-EU and non-associated country nationals, or students lacking the required credits as eligible applicants.

Application procedure

Applications must be submitted through the DIGISOC OpenOlat platform. The call requires all materials to be uploaded in a single folder labelled with the applicant’s name 2.

Required application documents

The application must be written in English. Supporting documents may be submitted in English, Italian, German or Czech. Documents in other languages require certified translations. The Evaluation Committee may request further information if the evidence is incomplete, and an application may be rejected if the documentation remains insufficient.

Applicants should prepare evidence of citizenship, second-year enrolment, credit completion and completion of all enrolled courses before submission. The call does not state that missing documents can be corrected after the deadline, so applicants should treat the deadline as a complete-documentation deadline.

Evaluation and selection

Applications are assessed by a joint Evaluation Committee appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of Palacký University. The committee comprises one representative from each of the three DIGISOC degree-awarding universities and at least one DIGISOC student representative.

The committee is appointed after the application deadline and must complete the evaluation no later than 15 days after the deadline. Eligibility is checked first. Eligible candidates are then ranked in descending order according to their weighted academic average for the 2025/2026 academic year.

Academic averages are calculated across all DIGISOC courses, converted using the DIGISOC grade conversion table, and rounded to two decimal places on a 30-point scale. A stated example is 28.77. Where candidates are tied, they share the same ranking position and receive the higher award associated with that position.

Award calculation

The award model is rank-based rather than based on demonstrated costs or a fixed individual funding rate.

The first three specified awards total €5,250, leaving €5,750 from the total budget before any further awards are calculated. The call states that the remaining amount is divided by the number of applications fulfilling the award criteria, subject to the €1,000 individual cap. Because the number of eligible and award-qualified applicants is not stated, the final number of recipients and the exact amount for applicants outside the top three cannot be determined in advance.

The call does not state a minimum award below the €1,000 cap for other qualifying students. The amount may therefore depend on the number of qualifying applications and the operation of the remaining-budget calculation.

Funding conditions

The scholarship is compatible with other Erasmus+ mobility grants for study purposes according to the DIGISOC programme information page, but applicants should verify that no specific institutional, national or mobility-grant rules restrict simultaneous support 3.

Decision, acceptance and appeals

Applicants are to be notified of the decision by email within 15 days after the submission period ends. Rejected applications must include a short justification. The ranking and exact awards are also published on the DIGISOC website and the websites of the awarding universities, and that publication constitutes notification under the call.

Applicants who are not awarded a scholarship may appeal by email to the programme coordinator. Appeals are reviewed by the joint Evaluation Committee. The call does not specify a separate appeal deadline in the available text, so applicants should act promptly after receiving the decision and follow any deadline stated in the notification.

Successful applicants must submit an unconditional declaration of acceptance within five days of receiving the award notice. Failure to accept within this mandatory period results in forfeiture of the award. The acceptance declaration must also confirm that the recipient will report any change in the information previously declared during the year.

Documents required for payment

Payment is administered by the DIGISOC degree-awarding university issuing the call. The bank account must be a current account with an IBAN in the name of the recipient student.

Renunciation and repayment

A recipient who withdraws after accepting the scholarship must notify the programme coordinator in writing by email so that the ranking list can potentially be adjusted.

A transfer to another degree course during the 2026/2027 academic year is treated as renunciation. In that situation, the scholarship holder must return the full amount received. More generally, a person who renounces is required to return amounts already paid, except where a duly justified special case is accepted by the joint Evaluation Committee.

Applicant assessment

This is a small, highly targeted student support call rather than a conventional EU project grant. It has no consortium requirement, no research work package, no project co-financing requirement and no competitive procurement component. The central success factor is eligibility followed by the weighted DIGISOC grade average for 2025/2026.

Applicants should pay particular attention to the following risks:

Potential inconsistency requiring attention

General DIGISOC programme information published online describes broader scholarship eligibility categories, including disability, migrant or refugee status, low socioeconomic family condition and residence in a remote area, and refers to awards of up to €3,000 per academic year 3. The specific UPOL second-year call supplied for this opportunity instead sets a total budget of €11,000, a maximum individual award of €2,000, an academic ranking formula and a citizenship, credit and course-completion test. Applicants should follow the specific call for the 2026/2027 UPOL award and seek written clarification from the issuing university if general website information conflicts with the call text.

The general DIGISOC information also lists annual tuition of €2,000, together with additional institutional and local charges. These figures are contextual programme costs and are not amounts reimbursed automatically by this scholarship 3.

Recommended applicant checklist

Contacts and official information

The DIGISOC Costs and Scholarships page is the main location identified for updates, application guidance and the acceptance letter template 3. Questions may be directed to digisoc@unina.it, digisoc@upol.cz or digisoc@uibk.ac.at.

The scholarship application upload area is the DIGISOC OpenOlat platform 2. Applicants should confirm that they can authenticate and access the platform well before the deadline because the publicly visible page may redirect users to institutional authentication.

Overall conclusion

The opportunity offers a one-year gross scholarship of up to €2,000 to eligible second-year DIGISOC students, with a total available budget of €11,000. Selection is primarily merit-based, using the 2025/2026 weighted DIGISOC grade average on a 30-point scale, while eligibility requires EU or Digital Europe Programme associated-country citizenship, second-year enrolment, at least 60 completed credits and completion of all enrolled courses.

The opportunity is suitable for students who already satisfy the academic and enrolment conditions and can submit complete documentation promptly. It should not be treated as an EU grant awarded by the European Commission. Applicants should rely on the specific UPOL call rather than broader programme summaries when determining the applicable award ceiling, selection rules and eligibility conditions.

Official EU Funding and Tenders Portal call EU Funding and Tenders Portal

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. 1The call disclaimer states that the scholarship call and financial support are not an EU action, that Palacký University launches the call, and that the university provides the financial support in its own name and under its own responsibility. The EU Funding and Tenders Portal publication is for information and visibility only. Official source: EU Funding and Tenders Portal call
2. 2The application upload location identified in the call is DIGISOC OpenOlat application area. Access may require institutional or organisational authentication.
3. 3The general programme information page describes broader DIGISOC scholarship information, including mobility support, compatibility with Erasmus+ mobility grants, broader social eligibility categories and different maximum amounts. The specific UPOL 2026/2027 call should control for this opportunity. Source: DIGISOC Costs and Scholarships