The Eric Bleumink Fellowship celebrates its 25th anniversary!
The Eric Bleumink Fellowship (EBF) has been in existence for 25 years. During that time, more than 100 talented students from over 30 low-income countries have been given the opportunity to study at the University of Groningen. Many of them describe the scholarship as a turning point in their lives: it enabled them to study abroad and gave them access to knowledge that would otherwise have remained out of reach. To highlight this, an interactive world map has been developed on which all scholarship holders are shown, along with their countries of origin, studies and personal stories. Would you like to contribute?
World map with all scholarship recipients
Jacquelien Scherpen: “The scholarship recipients we support with the EBF are all talented students. They often have the ambition, but not the means to study in Groningen. That is precisely why an EBF scholarship makes a real difference for them.”
Would you also like to contribute to master's scholarships for students from poor countries? Then donate to the Eric Bleumink Fellowship, a sub-fund of the Ubbo Emmius Fund.
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Irona Mostafa (Bangladesh) - ReMa Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (research)
Irona is from Bangladesh and started the two-year ReMa Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences program in 2024. She has a passion for research and has volunteered at a primary school. "As a little girl, I dreamed of becoming a teacher, just like my mother," Irona says. "And I still want to be a teacher, but at a university. During my Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at North South University, I became fascinated by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."
Chibwe Mulwe (Zambia) MA Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
Chibwe Mulwe studied urban planning in Zambia and Russia and since graduating has been working for the local government in Chama, a remote district in eastern Zambia. The region suffers from extreme droughts and floods due to climate change, environmental pollution, population growth and a declining ecosystem in which there is less and less room for wildlife. In Groningen he wants to learn more about how he can contribute to a solution to these problems as an urban planner.
His favorite place in Groningen is the Stadspark: 'I recently visited the park over the weekend and I liked how the interactions among the locals reminded me of the shared interdependence and the reason why we work hard. To give something valuable to our loved ones.'