Applications are now open for the fully funded 2025/26 Rotary Scholarships for Water and Sanitation Professionals!
Closing Date: 1 April 2025
Applications are now open for the fully funded 2025/26 Rotary Scholarships for Water and Sanitation Professionals!
Rotary Scholarships for Water and Sanitation Professionals
The strategic partnership between The Rotary Foundation (TRF) and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education aims to tackle the world’s water and sanitation crisis by increasing the number of trained professionals to devise, plan, and implement solutions in developing and emerging countries. Through this partnership, scholarships are awarded annually for graduate students at IHE Delft’s campus in the Netherlands.
The Rotary Scholarships for Water and Sanitation Professionals are designed to promote long-term productive relationships between Rotarians and highly skilled water and sanitation professionals in their communities. Since the inception of the partnership in 2012, over 165 scholarships have been awarded.
The application process is as follows: Rotarians interview and select from local candidates who have already been academically admitted at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education’s MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development, to one of the following thematic tracks:
- Water and Health
- Water, Food and Energy
- Water Resources and Ecosystems Health
- Water Hazards, Risks and Climate
When the candidate is deemed suitable, the sponsoring Rotary Club submits (together with the candidate) a fully completed application form to the joint Rotary/IHE Delft selection committee, copied to the District Governor and District Rotary Foundation Chair of their district. When a Rotary scholarship has been awarded, the sponsoring Rotary Clubs maintains contact with the scholar throughout his or her studies. The financing of the successful candidates will be managed through Rotary’s Global Grant process.
About the scholars
Recipients of this Rotary-scholarship will benefit from the support they receive through regular contact with sponsor Rotarians from their home country and the opportunity to interact with Rotarians in the Netherlands. Rotary alumni constitute an extensive network of Rotary scholarship recipients and Rotarians worldwide. Becoming involved with a local Rotary Club and the alumni association allows scholars to stay connected to Rotary’s global community and resources.
Minimum Participation Requirements
Rotary seeks scholars who wish to use their expertise to improve the lives of others in their own communities and around theworld. Scholars will be expected to maintain good academic performance and participate in the following activities:
- Provide a monthly update on the educational program and their cultural experiences to Rotarian sponsors in their homecountry.
- Give at least one presentation at a Rotary club or district event in the Netherlands.
- Give at least one presentation at a Rotary district conference in their home country.
- Selected students are expected to return to their home country, work with Rotarian sponsors on an activity to make a positive impact on water and sanitation in their home community.
Application process
Students admitted to IHE Delft Institute for Water Education’s MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development (68EC) can be nominated by a local Rotary Club in their home community by submitting the application form for a scholarship to the Rotary/IHE Delft committee in the Netherlands, together with the student’s resume and the IHE Delft admission letter. Only completed application forms fully supported and submitted by the sponsoring Rotary Club will be considered.
Application timeline
- Apply for admission for the IHE Delft Master programme in Water and Sustainable Development by 1 April 2025 at the latest
- Early on in the application process, search for your nearest Rotary club
- Approach the club and request to nominate you for a Rotary scholarship
- The application form needs to be completed by you and by the Rotary Club
- After full completion of the form, the sponsoring Rotary Club submits your application to the Rotary/IHE Delft selection committee in the Netherlands by 15 April 2025 at the latest
- After the selection all candidates will be informed about the outcome before 15 May 2025
- Final approval is pending formal endorsement by The Rotary Foundation 1 July 2025
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