Il Circolo Awards 2023

Every year il Circolo chooses a worthy cause to promote and fund and invites entries of creative projects to compete for the awards. The 2023 chosen cause is ‘’Mental Health’’. Underneath all information on how to enter the competition
Applications for two awards of £2,000 on “Mental Health in young people “are invited from:
Students of all nationalities, resident in the U.K., attending a British or Italian Higher Education Institution, either at the undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Candidates are required to provide:
- Application form as from Il Circolo website www.ilcircolo.org.uk
- An up-to-date C.V. (using the Europass format with academic qualifications in the original language), a “Why Me” note no longer than 300 words in either English or Italian.
- Full postal address and contact numbers (mobile, e-mail).
- One academic reference sent electronically.
- Postgraduate students will not be considered unless they have already received a formal letter of acceptance to the proposed course of study/research for 2023/24, from the University or other Institution. This should be sent together with 1, 2 ,3 & 4 above. If the documentation is incomplete candidates cannot be considered.
- Scholarships are not available either to members of Il Circolo and their families or to recipients of previous scholarships/awards from Il Circolo.
- All the recipients of the awards must be prepared to have relevant personal details posted on Il Circolo – Italian Cultural Association’s website.
- The complete documentation should be sent electronically to awards@ilcircolo.org.uk no later than midnight on Friday 14th July 2023. Applications received after this date for whatever reason, will not be considered. An email of confirmation will be sent upon receipt.
- The selected candidates will be interviewed in October 2023.
- The winners will be presented with the award in November 2023.