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Chevening Alumni Programme Fund 2019-20 for Turkey is now open

The Chevening Alumni Programme Fund (CAPF) application are now open. This is your chance to create positive change in your country and/or region.

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If you have an idea for a project that promotes innovative solutions to global or community challenges, start preparing your bids as soon as possible.

Please remember that your projects will be delivered between May 2019 and 31 March 2020.

What are the objectives of CAPF?

The CAPF supports Chevening alumni activities across the globe in order to create the most engaged, active and impactful international scholarship alumni network in the world.

The CAPF supports Chevening alumni activities across the globe in order to create the most engaged, active and impactful international scholarship alumni network in the world. The fund is allocated annually on a competitive basis to projects that:

  • support this network to create positive change in their countries, regions or on global issues, where this contributes to UK foreign policy priorities and/or UK values; and
  • promote contact and relationships between Chevening alumni, and between the FCO and Chevening alumni, by providing opportunities for networks to be built and for ideas to be exchanged.

Who is eligible?

All scholars and fellows since 1983 who have completed their Chevening award, including alumni who studied through co-funded partnership scholarships (for example Chevening/HSBC or Chevening/OSI) are eligible to apply.

Current scholars/fellows, applicants or those who did not take up an award are not eligible.

If you are an alumni and interested in CAPF, please contact: Hande.Celikel@fco.gov.uk by 25 March 2019.

For further details about CAPF please watch the promo video:

promo video

Published 19 February 2019