7, Aeschinou Street, Athens, GR-105 58, Greece
Tel: (30) 210 371 3000
Fax: (30) 210 371 3013
Email: ffp@onassis.gr
Website: www.onassis.gr
Contact: Deputy Director, Human Resource Manager
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The Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation establishes and supports public benefit projects, offers services and makes contributions to other public benefit institutions for medical care, education, literature, religion, science, research, journalism, art, cultural matters, history, archaeology and sport. It also awards prizes, grants and scholarships to both Greeks and foreigners.
Onassis Foreigners’ Fellowship Programme Educational Scholarships Category B
Subjects: Greek language, Greek literature, Greek history and civilization.
Purpose: To render possible the acquaintance, collaboration and exchange of information between the scholarship recipients and their Greek colleagues in Greek schools, education or other relevant departments of Greek universities.
Eligibility: Open to active elementary or high school foreign teachers who teach the Greek language, modern or ancient, Greek literature, Greek history and Greek civilization. Only persons other than Greek nationals are eligible. However, persons of Greek descent, second generation and on, are also eligible providing they are permanently residing and working abroad or currently studying in foreign universities.
Type: Fellowship
Value: A monthly allowance of €1,200 plus hotel accommodation and a round trip air ticket
Length of Study: Up to 6 months
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: Greece
No. of awards offered: 5
Application Procedure: Copies of the announcement and the relevant nomination and application forms are available daily at the Foundation’s Secretariat or from the website.
Closing Date: January 31st
Additional Information: The programme presupposes that the scholarship recipients will continue offering their services to their country of origin after they have completed their training in Greece.
Onassis Foreigners’ Fellowship Programme Educational Scholarships Category C
Subjects: All subjects.
Purpose: To render possible the acquaintance, collaboration and exchange of information between the scholarship recipients and their Greek colleagues in Greek schools, education or other relevant departments of Greek universities.
Eligibility: Open to foreign postgraduate students and PhD candidates up to 40 years of age who pursue studies in universities, scholarly or research centres or fine art schools either outside Greece or in Greece.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postgraduate
Type: Fellowship
Value: A monthly allowance of €850 plus hotel accommodation and a round trip air ticket
Length of Study: 5–10 months
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: Greece
No. of awards offered: 10
Application Procedure: Copies of the Announcement and the relevant nomination and application forms are available daily at the Foundation’s Secretariat or from the website.
Closing Date: February 29th
Additional Information: The programme presupposes that the scholarship recipients will continue offering their services to their country of origin, after they have completed their training in Greece.
Onassis Foreigners’ Fellowships Programme Research Grants Category AI
Subjects: Humanistic sciences, political sciences and the arts.
Purpose: To enable full members of national academies and full university professors whose scholarly or artistic work has been widely acclaimed and who wish to visit Greece in order to conduct scholarly research or to collaborate with educational institutions, research institutions or organizations.
Eligibility: Only people of non-Greek nationality are eligible. However, persons of Greek descent, second generation and on, are also eligible provided they are permanently residing and working abroad or currently studying in foreign universities. Candidates must have had a professional academic career of at least 10 years.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Research grant
Value: A monthly allowance of €1,000 plus a round trip air ticket and hotel accommodation
Length of Study: 3–6 months
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: Greece
No. of awards offered: 10
Application Procedure: Copies of the Announcement and the relevant nomination and application forms are available daily at the Foundation’s Secretariat or from the website.
Closing Date: January 31st
Additional Information: Any candidate wishing to apply under this programme should specify the category in which they want to be considered in order to receive the relevant nomination and application form. Only one application form for one of the categories can be submitted.
Onassis Foreigners’ Fellowships Programme Research Grants Category AII
Subjects: All subjects.
Purpose: To enable university or equivalent institutions’ faculty, researchers, PhD holders, artists and musicians, and translators of Greek literature who wish to come to Greece either for scholarly research co-operation with a Greek university, research centre or institute or for their artistic creation or translation.
Eligibility: Only candidates who are not Greek nationals are eligible. However, candidates of Greek descent, second generation and on, are also eligible provided they are permanently residing and working abroad or currently studying in foreign universities. Candidates must have had a professional academic career of at least 10 years.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: A monthly allowance of €1,000 plus hotel accommodation and a round trip air ticket
Length of Study: Up to 3–6 months
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: Greece
No. of awards offered: 15
Application Procedure: Copies of the Announcement and the relevant nomination and application forms are available daily at the Foundation’s Secretariat or from the website.
Closing Date: February 29th
Additional Information: Any candidate wishing to apply under this programme should specify the category in which they want to be considered in order to receive the relevant nomination and application form. Only one application form for one of the categories can be submitted.
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(2018). Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. In: The Grants Register 2018. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-94186-5_30
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