Monthly Archives: April 2016

NUS International Internship Award- Financial Aid Scheme for Overseas Internships

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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:

  1. Funding is provided for all international internships meaning IRO and faculty facilitated, as well as self-sourced internships
  2. 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)
  1. Bursary top-up for students with low PCI (Singapore Citizen only)
  2. Minimum. duration: 4 weeks and Max. duration: 24 weeks
  3. 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.

 

 

Invitation: Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2016 Asia Conference

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Please note that this is an announcement on behalf of the organiser of this conference: The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Please refer to them directly if you have any query on this.

HPAIR2016

It is with pleasure I extend the below invitation to NUS students to participate in the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations 2016 Asia Conference which will take place between 19 and 23 August 2016.  The Conference is Harvard University’s largest annual student conference in the Asia-Pacific region.  This year it will be  hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and will focus on 5 tracks, namely, Environment and Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Technology, Humanitarian Affairs, Business and the World Economy, and Governance and Diplomacy.

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is a student-run organization of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  Since 1991, they have continuously gathered a growing pool of international students from top universities, renowned academics, business professionals, and political leaders to engage in their rigorous educational events.  The HPAIR Asia Conference is a 5-day academic program aiming to enrich delegates with a broader exposure to issues spanning multiple arenas, including political, social, economic, cultural, and business.  As the world becomes more globalized as well as commercialized, the boundary between business and other aspects of society is increasingly less rigid. The HPAIR Asia Conference seeks to capture this phenomenon and help delegates understand its impacts on the future of international relations.

Application for delegates has now started and you are invited to join this wonderful event! The regular deadline for application is 15 May, 2016. For more information, please visit www.hpair.org

 

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