Ajyal: Exceptional Component to Support Art Students in Syria
First Semester Exams for the Academic Year 2024-2025
Ettijahat - Independent Culture announces the launch of an exceptional support component directed to art students in Syria during the first semester exams of the 2024-2025 academic year, in order to help them attend their respective institutes, universities and colleges during the exam period, which extends until February 15.
Public life in Syria, including the higher education sectors, is witnessing many changes following the fall of the former regime on December 8, 2024, and this change is accompanied by a number of challenges in moving within or between Syrian governorates, as well as in the availability of accommodation and housing inside and outside universities.
Therefore, and in response to the right for students in the field of arts to take their exams, Ettijahat, within the Ajyal programme–which is dedicated to supporting arts education– is providing exceptional support dedicated to art students, including making small financial contributions to cover the costs of transportation within the governorates to attend exams, helping them travel to the governorates where their university is located and contributing to accommodation costs until the end of the exams.
Who can apply?
- Ettijahat is providing 200 opportunities for support upon launching this call, and based on the number of applications it receives, the organisation will try to increase this number.
- Any student of Syrian or Palestinian Syrian nationality residing in any of the Syrian governorates can apply.
- Any student in the field of arts can apply, at all levels of university study: bachelor's, master's, doctorate, in addition to students of intermediate and higher technical institutes.
- Previous and current Ettijahat beneficiaries are entitled to apply for this exceptional component.
Support Mechanism
- Applications are received exclusively through the simplified application form by the deadline at midnight on January 27, 2025.
- A committee consisting of a number of specialists in the fields of arts will quickly begin studying and evaluating the applications.
- Recipients of support will be notified periodically until the end of the exams period on February 15, 2025. If exams are already completed while the application is evaluated, support will be provided retroactively.
- Ettijahat will cooperate with a number of independent cultural institutions in Syria to quickly deliver support.
- Out of respect for their privacy, the names of the beneficiaries will not be announced.
The Ajyal programme aims to enable Syrian youth to continue their academic studies and education in all fields of art, and is committed to continuing to support beneficiaries until the end of their studies by covering their study costs in full or in part. The programme is based on a set of principles, the most important of which are: refining the skills of the new generation of artists and art students, openness to all forms of artistic expression, and the creation of channels of communication between the younger and older generations. Since the launch of the programme in 2019, it has provided support to 49 students in various artistic fields, and since 2022 it has, in partnership with the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, provided scholarships to study for a master’s degree in the fields of arts and cinema.
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