Scholarships & Grants

Below is information about the scholarships RES offered for exceptional students during its opeartion.

RES Scholarships

Each academic year RES provided a limited number of RES Scholarships to exceptional students which had been accepted to the M.Sc. Degree Program. The RES Scholarships were the following:

RES Scholarship Awards were earmarked for students coming from our partner universities in Europe, North-America and elsewhere. These awards were based on the signed cooperation agreements between RES and each foreign partner university. The awards included up to a half (50%) or  (100%) waiver of tuition fees. 

RES Scholarship Awards for students applying to RES from non-partner universities or organizations. These awards could include up to a (50%) waiver in tuition fees. In few cases, and then primarily for students from developing countries this award included up to a full (100%) waiver in tuition fees.

RES Scholarship Awards provided by a grant from the Icelandic National Power Company (Landsvirkjun). These awards were only awarded to students enrolled in the Hydropower Specialization and included full (100%) tuition waivers for up to five students, each academic year. 

None of these awards covered living expenses (accommodation and meals; flights to and from Akureyri, Iceland). Also it was sometimes required that students covered additional costs related their thesis work such as editing costs and travel costs if their thesis research was not done in Iceland.

Volunteer for RES

For Students receiving a RES Scholarship it was to be required to do some volunteer work for RES, but this would take at most 3 hours per week on average. The work was to be based on student’s qualifications and prior experiences. Below is an explanation of some of the tasks:

Help with managing RES printing facilities;
Assist visiting professors with logistics during their stay at RES;
Make sure that RES classrooms are always clean and tidy at the end of each day;  
Collect and edit material from RES students to be uploaded to the RES website;
Photography -  help building up a photo database of RES scheduled events and student activities;
Helping with registering and classifying new books, articles and DVD’s at the RES Library;
Assisting with planning of RES scheduled events and participate in these events on behalf of RES;
Contact person(s) with the RES Alumni Organization;
Student representatives for academic Issues – teaching & research;
Student representatives for housing;
Student representatives for social activities;
Student representatives for cafeteria foods & catering;   
Student representatives for RES web design and content.

Students interested in applying for one of the above RES Scholarship Awards would send a formal 2-page letter addressed to the Rector of RES and include with their RES Application, highlighting their qualifications, background and research interests dealing with renewable energy at RES. They should also state in the letter what voluntary work, from the list above, they would like to participate in at RES.

Please note that all students receiving the RES Scholarships were subject to strict academic evaluation by the RES Academic Board. If a student does not pass one or more exams the Scholarship can be terminated, leaving the student with the choice of paying full tuition fees or leaving the degree program.