State scholarships for students of low socio-economic status

Pursuant to the Ordinance on the conditions and procedures for achieving the right to state scholarship based on socio-economic status (Narodne novine No. 83/2018), every academic year there is a public call for awarding state scholarships for students of low socio-economic status.

The right to a state scholarship is granted to full-time students who are Croatian citizens or EU citizens with a registered address in the Republic of Croatia, who have an approved non-national status with a permanent residence in the Republic of Croatia, and persons pursuant to the Act on International and Temporary Protection who are enrolled in higher education institutions in the Republic of Croatia:

a) in an undergraduate university study programme, graduate university study programme, integrated undergraduate and graduate university study programme, a short-cycle professional study programme, an undergraduate professional study programme or a specialist professional study programme and
b) students with disabilities and students without adequate parental care enrolled in postgraduate university study programmes.

Students may apply for a state scholarship in the following categories:

  1. D-1 – students who are children of the killed, deceased and missing, under Articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Act on the Protection of Disabled Civil and Military War Victims, and children of peacetime disabled military and civil war victims whose disability occurred under the circumstances specified in Articles 6, 7 and 8 thereof, peacetime disabled military and civil war victims whose disability occurred under the circumstances specified in Articles 6, 7 and 8 thereof (average monthly income per household member may not exceed 60 % of the minimum budgetary basis, determined annually, based on a special regulation);
  2. E – students of low socio-economic status (average monthly income per household member may not exceed 65 % of the minimum budgetary basis, determined annually, according to the regulation);
  3. P – students with disabilities and students under guardianship or students who were under guardianship as children or who have been granted a right to social housing or were granted a right to social housing as children under social security regulations, who are enrolled in postgraduate university studies.

The call for a relevant academic year is published by 15 October; students may apply by completing the online form on the following website https://drzavnestipendije.mzo.hr/.

The funds for the call are provided in the state budget and the European Social Fund (ESF) under the operational programme Efficient Human Resources 2014 -2020, i.e. Project ‘Awarding scholarships to students of low socio-economic status’.

The amount of the scholarship is HRK 1 200.00 and it is paid monthly for nine months.