Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship (BSTF) was established in order to financially aid the nation’s students to study abroad and develop the nation’s human resources and other sectors of their economy.

About Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship

Established in 1984 with funding from the Swedish International Development Agency, the Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund (BSTF) (SIDA). Bangladeshi students studying abroad are given a one-way travel subsidy in order to improve human resources in their home country. A 12-person committee, with representatives from the public and commercial sectors, oversees the BSTF’s operations. The committee is led by the Secretary of the Economic Relations Division.

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Deadline and opening dates

  1. By April 30, 11:59 p.m. Bangladesh time, the application must be turned in.
  2. Successful applicants will get email notifications of their rewards on or before May 31 after their submissions have been evaluated and chosen.
  3. By June 30, the award will be wired to the chosen applicant’s bank account.

Eligibility and requirements

  1. Bangladeshi students who have enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, or doctoral studies at foreign universities or educational institutions
  2. The Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund offers travel grants and airline tickets to students who have never before received such aid from the organization or from any other source.
  3. Students who failed any public examination with a third division/class/equivalent GPA or lower.

Requirements

  1. Admission Letter
  2. Scholarship Letter
  3. Letter from the present Department stating no travel grant was given
  4. Passport Couriers Scans: main page, visa page, arrival pages, airplane ticket
  5. one NID scanned copy
  6. passport photograph
  7. Signature Scanned Copies
Hard copies are not necessary. Through the online application system, applicants will just need to upload soft copies of the necessary documents. However, if and when BSTF demands actual copies of the documents, the applicants may still be required to deliver them.The following documents must be uploaded by applicants: copies of their passports (information pages and immigration seal pages), NID, educational certificates, annual income statements for themselves and/or their parents, passport-size photos, enrollment certificates from the foreign universities to which they have been accepted, plane tickets, all boarding passes, etc.

How To Apply for Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship

To begin the online application, all interested applicants should click HERE and create an account. Upload all the required documents.

Candidates that are chosen will be notified by email. Therefore, it is advised for all applicants to regularly check their inbox and spam folder for emails sent to the email address they gave in their application. Applicants are asked not to contact BSTF by phone or email to inquire about the status of their application if they have not heard anything by the first week of June, which will imply that their application has not been approved. However, if a candidate is informed that they have been selected for the trip grant but do not have their scholarship funds in their specified bank account by June 30, BSTF may contact them by phone or email.

Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship Amount

The Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship amount for 2023-24 is not disclosed yet, but it varies annually.

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  1. Md Shahjahan Mahmud Reply

    I have come to know about the Bangladesh-Sweden Trust fund scholarship. After searching in the website, I don’t find any option to open an account and apply for this. Has the scholarship application process been started yet for 2023-24?

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