Starting from financial year 2016 (1 April 2016), NUS International Relations Office (IRO) has introduced a new funding scheme for students doing overseas internships that are not administered by IRO.
With some terms and conditions, this NUS International Internship Award scheme will generally support all NUS students embarking on an overseas internship, including faculty-facilitated internships and student self-sourced internships. This will ensure that student interns, who are Singapore Citizens or Singapore PRs, can receive additional co-funding under the International Enterprise Young Talent Programme (IE YTP).
NUS International Internship Award – Basic features:
- Funding is provided for all international internships meaning IRO and faculty facilitated, as well as self-sourced internships
- Funding amount:-
- Base Quantum: SGD 50/week (Southeast Asia, China, and Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand)
- Base Quantum: SGD 100/week (rest of the world including Australia and New Zealand)
- Bursary top-up for students with low PCI (Singapore Citizen only)
- Minimum. duration: 4 weeks and Max. duration: 24 weeks
- Minimum. CAP 3.0
Terms and conditions:
- Students cannot receive another funding from FASS for the same internship
- Total funding amount is capped according to regions, which takes into account benefits provided by the company as well as costs of the programme (airfare, housing, living expenses)
- Application needs to submitted before the internship start date
Details about the NUS International Internship Award can be found here. Please refer to IRO if you have any query.
We would like to encourage all FASS students going on overseas internships to apply for this award even if it is a self-sourced internship. In addition FASS students can claim credits for their internship as well. More information can be found here.
