Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP)

What is NFP?

The Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) is a demand-driven fellowship programme designed to foster capacity building within organisations by providing training and education to their mid-career staff members. NFP-fellowships cover your travel costs, accommodation and course fee. NFP is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget for development co-operation, and run by NUFFIC, the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education. Half of the available fellowships are awarded to women, and simultaneously, half of the available budget is spent on candidates from sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from this, priority is given to candidates from deprived groups and/or from marginalized regions.

More information on NFP by Nuffic

Who is eligible for NFP?

To be eligible for a scholarship under the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes you must meet the following criteria:

• You are a a national of one of the following 60 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Autonomous Palestinian Territories, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
• You are not applying for more than one course with the same NFP application deadline
• You are not employed by a multinational corporation, a UN organisation, the World Bank, the IMF, a bilateral or multinational donor organisation, or a large national and/or commercial organisation
• You have not already received two NFP fellowships for short courses in the past
• You have not already received an NFP fellowship for a short courses in the year prior to this fellowship application

What has changed in the new procedure?

• Nuffic introduced a new application procedure for the NFP programme in 2010. The most important changes were that:
• NFP applicants no longer have to receive a conditional letter of acceptance for the course they are applying for from RNTC before applying for an NFP fellowship
• RNTC course applications and NFP fellowship applications can be submitted at the same time
• NFP applications are no longer submitted to the Fellowship Officers of the appropriate Dutch Embassy but are submitted directly to the NUFFIC either online or by post
• NFP paper application forms can no longer be obtained from the Dutch Embassies but must be downloaded from the NUFFIC website
• NFP applicants can check the status of their application online and will be informed automatically of the progress, acceptance and/or rejection of their NFP application

More information

For more information about the online application system and application criteria, please visit the Nuffic website.

To apply for NFP through SOL, please go to: Scholarships On-Line.

Should you not have access to SOL due to poor internet connections, please download the paper application form.

Allow 12-16 weeks from the online application deadline for the NFP application process to be completed. You will be informed automatically both if your application is rejected and if it is successful. All NFP applicants (online and on paper) will be able to check the status of their application by logging on to the SOL website.