The assistance provided by the Emergency Fund is intended for students or doctoral candidates with limited financial means. You must be making sufficient progress with your study and the situation must be acute, incidental, of limited scope and resolvable.
The purpose of the Emergency Fund is to alleviate emergency situations that are:
The financial assistance provided is a gift that needn't be repaid.
The Emergency Fund is used to finance, among other things, 5 grants for Surinamese students.
If you'd like to apply for assistance from the Emergency Fund, make an appointment to see a student counsellor. The student counsellor will submit an application and supporting documents to a committee of 3 other student counsellors, who will check that the application meets the fund criteria and assess whether or not it can be approved. Applications for incidental assistance will be dealt with in just one week.
You can contact the student counsellors for a confidential conversation about your personal situation and your study progress. Please check our conditions for guidance here.