Competition for a scholarship to a student from the territory of the municipality of Nova Varos for the 2024/2025 school year.

Scholarship Competition 2024/2025

Conditions for applying to the scholarship competition

The following students are eligible to apply to the scholarship competition by the Statute of the "Petar Mandic" Endowment:

• Students enrolled in the current school year in studies of technical or other sciences,
• Students who are not employed,
• Citizens of the Republic of Serbia who are from the territory of the municipality of Nova Varos or originally from that municipality,
• Who shows interest in the figure and work of Nikola Tesla.

Note for students from vulnerable social groups:

Students from vulnerable social groups (students without parental care, from single-parent families, students with disabilities, students with chronic or rare diseases) may submit proof of such status and, in the event of the same number of points in the final ranking, may gain an advantage.

Required Documentation

When applying for the competition, the student must submit copies of the following documents electronically, i.e. the forms listed in the competition and forming its integral part:

• completed application (the application form is at the bottom of the page),
• certificate of enrollment at the faculty,
• for second-year and higher students, proof of passed exams, i.e. average grade achieved,
• high school transcripts (for first-year students only),
• birth certificate,
• a scanned ID card,
• An essay on the topic: "What do you know about the priest Nikola Mandic, after whom Nikola Tesla was named?"

Note for students from vulnerable social groups:

Students from vulnerable social groups (in addition to the above documents) must also submit evidence of belonging to a vulnerable social group.

Deadline for submitting documents

The deadline for applying to the competition is by the end of Sunday, November 3, 2024. Applications are made on the website of the "Petar Mandic" Foundation by filling out the application form with attached electronic copies of documents.

Incomplete application documentation and documentation submitted after the expiration of the specified deadline will not be considered.

Deadline for selecting the scholarship winner

After the competition's application deadline expires, the Endowment's Board of Directors will select and publicly announce the scholarship winner on the Endowment's website and the Novo Varos municipality's information portal within 7 (seven) working days.

Scholarship payment

The student will receive a one-time scholarship of 100,000.00 Serbian dinars.

The approved scholarship amount will be transferred to the bank account provided.

Note

The student-scholarship recipient has an exclusively moral obligation, which is reduced to effort and diligence in acquiring knowledge and virtues, by the motto of the "Petar Mandic" Endowment, which was created based on the following thought:

"It is very difficult to find a person with all three qualifications: knowledge, fairness and selflessness" (Nikola Tesla, letter to his nephew Nikola Trbojevic, 1928).

In Belgrade, October 15, 2024

In front of the "Petar Mandic" Endowment

Vladimir Obucina, Director