ISS Hardship Fund

The ISS Hardship Fund is a financial support program established by the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam to assist students without any other form of scholarship. The fund is open to both Dutch and international students who wish to enroll in the Master of Arts in Development Studies at ISS. The fund provides a fee discount of up to 30% of the tuition fee to help students who can prove they do not have sufficient means to pay the entire tuition fee. EU/EEA students are particularly encouraged to apply for this scholarship. Applications are processed on an ongoing basis with decisions made throughout the application period, and funding is distributed as equitably as possible among different majors within the program.