The Telemark Research Institute student grant

Telemark Research Institute awards a grant for master’s students writing theses within research areas relevant to our fields of study:

• Cultural Policy studies
• Regional development
• Local Public Finance and Organisation
• Public health/welfare

You can read more about these topics here

We award one grant twice a year. The application deadline is 15^th of June or 15^th of December each year.

The grant includes:

• 15 000 NOK
• Counselling from a researcher at TRI
• The opportunity to be connected to a ongoing research project at TRI (dependent on relevance and practical matters)

If awarded a grant, we ask you to present your master’s thesis to the researchers at TRI.

Applying for the grant:

Write a short description of your master’s thesis project (maximum 3 pages) and a short paragraph about the relevance for our fields of study. This should be sent to kristine.p.miland@tmforsk.no. The application, aswell as the actual master’s thesis, can be written (and presented) in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

The applications will be reviewed with the following criteria:

• Quality of the project (70%)
• Relevance (30 %)