Educational grants for ophthalmologists-in-training from East European countries

 

The Council of SOE offers
a limited number of scholarships for ophthalmologists-in-training from East European countries to visit Ophthalmic Centres
in Western Europe.

Applications for the SOE Educational Grant 2009 are closed. Applications for the SOE Educational Grant 2010 will be opened from May 2009 until 30 September 2009. Only applications which have been submitted via our website will be considered.
 

   
Role of the SOE as Educational Integrating Force in Europe
Professor Marko Hawlina, MD, PhD, FEBO
Chairman of the Education Committee SOE

Click here to read

Letters from receivers of SOE Educational Grant 2009
Simona Badea (pdf)
Yana Shenk (pdf)

At present, the Grant is fixed at 1,000 euro and it is envisaged that the successful applicants will spend a minimum of 4 – 6 weeks observing clinical work in a West European Centre. The SOE Council has compiled a list of Centres which accept observers and of the subspecialties they offer.

The number of Educational Grants is limited to 70 per year and 2 or 3 applicants from each East European country (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia).

Please note that you should not contact the clinic or hospital you would like to visit while applying for the grant. We will only ask you to contact the clinics or hospital if you have been selected for the SOE Educational Grant, in which case we will give you further information.

 2010 Successful recipients - Click here for full process instructions (PDF)

The SOE 2010 Educational Grant applications are now closed.

Should you wish to apply next year, note that only online applications will be considered. Applications for 2011 will be open from May 2010 to 30 September 2010. You will be sent a reply by the Educational Committee by the end of November 2010.

Click here to see a list of Ophthalmic Centres in Western Europe (PDF)

Further information is available from

SOE Secretariat
50 Edward Road
Nottingham NG2 5GB
UK

E-mail: secretariat@soevision.org