Recently, it was announced that a Malaysian, Ms. Emily Tan, was awarded one of this year’s international scholarships for the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism and Media. The scholarship is a part of one of two sets of scholarships awarded by the European Commission for the Erasmus Mundus Journalism programme - one set for Non-EU nationals, and another for EU residents.

In fact, the Non-EU set of Erasmus Mundus scholarships actually consists of around 24 awards, with individual allotments for particular countries. For example, Malaysia is set to receive one international scholarship yearly, which of course, was awarded to Ms. Tan this year.

The scholarship is worth €42,000 for the whole two years of the Masters programme, with €13,500 being tuition fees.

Application requirements? Well, basically, all you have to be is an “excellent student” from a non-EU country who has full intention of reading the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalim and Media programme. Further details are not available, but experience shows that you should have graduated from your undergraduate programme with first-class honours, and have won a book prize or two.

If you’re interested, check out the Erasmus Mundus website for further details (and the application form).