MA in Applied Economics
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Data-driven Changemakers
Fellowship for social impact
Data-driven Changemakers (DDCs) are exceptional applicants to the program who have already created projects or enterprises with substantial social impact. Like other applicants to the program, they are curious, impact-driven and self-reflective. Their past results and forward looking ideas will make them natural leaders in social impact work in their student cohort.
To find out more about this fellowship and MA in Applied Economics program, come to our Open Day on 18 February, 2016.
The fellowship is set up to cover most of the tuition costs of attending the MA in Applied Economics program at CERGE-EI, not to provide funding for interesting social projects.
Details
- Number: 3 fellowships are available for the academic year 2016/2017
- Eligibility: Anyone eligible to apply to the MA in Applied Economics Program is also eligible to apply for the fellowship.
- Value: 6,500 USD for regular admission applicants; 4,500 USD for early admission applicants. The fellowship is provided in the form of tuition discount. Fellows will be expected to cover 3,000 USD of their tuition (1,000 USD per semester).
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Deadline: March 31, 2016 at midnight CET
- For regular admissions applicants: upload an additional DDC Application Essay together with the rest of the application materials required to apply to the MA in Applied Economics program.
- For early admissions applicants: if you are already admitted to the MA in Applied Economics program you are also eligible to apply for the fellowship. Send your additional DDC Application Essay to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject line “Data-driven Changemaker fellowship”.
- For students applying during the rolling admission process (after March 31, 2016): you are not eligible for the fellowship.
DDC Application essays:
Applicants should submit three Data-Driven Changemakers Application Essays. Each essay should be 250-400 words long and answer the questions below. Please send answers to these questions in a single file (doc or pdf) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
We value passionate, thoughtful answers over politically correct artificial constructs.
- Question 1: Describe in detail a project where you have achieved social impact, including a quantitative estimate of your impact (for example, number of people positively affected, financial savings created, etc.). How scalable is this project?
- Question 2: Do you have ideas for new scalable projects or social innovations that you would like to pursue in the future? Tell us about them.
- Question 3: What have you learned about yourself during the course of your project? If you were to ask your friend or colleague about moments when you shine and moments when they’d wish to stop working with you, what would they say?
