Scholarships

All candidates for the AISTS Scholarships must have been offered admission and must have applied for their Scholarship of choice by March 31 2023. You will be considered for the scholarship after being successfully admitted into the program. 

The selection committees for all scholarships require specific documentation. Please note that the online scholarship application process cannot be paused and continued at a later stage. Please ensure that you have all of the supporting documents ready for submission when starting the online application process. 

The AISTS Future Female Leader in Sport Scholarship 

What are we looking for? 

At AISTS we believe in ‘sport for all’ and understand the power that sport can have to change lives. The AISTS Future Female Leader in Sport Scholarship will be awarded to a woman who clearly demonstrates how she is an ambassador for sport, and a role model for others. 

How to apply 

1. You will need to submit a motivation letter under the ‘scholarship’ section of the application in your application on the portal. 

This personal essay should outline your short and long term goals, and how they relate to encouraging and inspiring others. Previous projects, future project ideas, volunteering, and personal motivations will all be taken into consideration.  

• The motivation letter for the AISTS Future Female Leader in Sport Scholarship should be 1-2 pages long and address the following points: How have you been a role model for others within the world of sport? How will you continue to be a role model for others in the future? 

• How do you plan to encourage other women to work in sport? 
• As part of your role as female scholarship recipient, you would need to act as an ambassador for AISTS. This will include volunteering at events, taking part in videos and social media activations, etc. Are you happy to do this? 
• How else would you raise awareness of AISTS – and promote ‘sport for all’ – during your 15-months as scholarship winner? 

2. Female scholarship applicants will need to demonstrate the capacity to fund the additional 50% of the course, as well as support the costs of living in Lausanne (estimated at CHF 2’400 per month, including accommodation), plus the cost of travel to Switzerland and back to the country of residence. Examples of financial support: own earnings/savings, own assets, family (incl. spouse/partner) income, family (incl. spouse/partner) assets, next-of-kin/friends, your government, agencies & foundations, bank loan. 

The AISTS Athlete Scholarship 

The AISTS Scholarship was designed to support high achieving current and former athletes to accelerate their career to become leaders in sport.   

How to apply 

1. Include supporting documentation confirming your sporting achievements. 
   Please note that you must provide documentation to verify your sporting achievements. Examples of supporting documentation could be an extract of your official results, an attestation from a NOC or IF. 

2. Include a motivation letter to your scholarship application (1 to 2 pages). This letter must be different from your motivation letter submitted with your application to the AISTS Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Management & Technology general application. 

3. Applicants to the Female scholarship applicants will need to demonstrate the capacity to fund the additional 50% of the course, as well as support the costs of living in Lausanne (estimated at CHF 2’400 per month, including accommodation), plus the cost of travel to Switzerland and back to the country of residence. Examples of financial support: own earnings/savings, own assets, family (incl. spouse/partner) income, family (incl. spouse/partner) assets, next-of-kin/friends, your government, agencies & foundations, bank loan. 

The AISTS Partner University scholarship 

The AISTS is offering one merit-based scholarship to a graduate from our partner universities (EPFL, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva and EHL) to participate in the 2023 Intake of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Sport Management and Technology programme.  Candidates must have been offered admission to the programme prior to their scholarship application. 

• a Master’s degree obtained from one of the AISTS partner universities (EPFL, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, EHL, IMD)  

• a compelling experience in a field that is or can be applied to sport  
• a project supported by a professor from one of the universities, enabling the scholarship holder to carry out, during the Master’s programme, his/her personal research work under the supervision of the professor concerned, as well as his/her internship of at least 2 months in direct collaboration with the university concerned, within this university or an organisation, company or start-up linked to sport.  

*The project must be summarised in a two-page document and must have been validated by the professor at the university concerned, who will provide a letter of recommendation attached to the project summary.   

US-FEDERAL STUDENT AID (FSA) 

The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) satisfies the definition of an eligible institution for the purpose of granting to regular students at the EPFL an in-school deferment of repayment of Federal Family Education Program Loans and Federal Direct Student Loans. 

OPE ID NUMBER 04026300 

The OPE ID Number is a unique identifier for the EPFL. 

More information about FSA loan programs 

Educations.com 

Educations.com offers a scholarship to the student who is willing to study in Europe for grad school. 

The application for the next scholarship round for Fall 2023 will end on May 15 2023. 

More information about the Educations.com Scholarships