Eligibility Criteria

To be considered eligible to apply for this scholarship, the student must:

Be maximum 18 years and 4 months old by September 1st, 2024 (that is, being born after May 1st, 2006);
Be enrolled, at least, in the 11th grade, during the 2023-2023 school year
Have an average of 14 or higher in the last school grade completed
Be Angolan and living in Angola for the previous 3 years
Have the following documents:
(1) Certificate or Declaration of High School Qualifications
(2) Copy of the Angolan National ID Card
(3) Curriculum
(4) Motivation Letter

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

Intellectual curiosity and motivation

A genuine urge to learn about the world around oneself and the ability to recognize the details and grasp the breadth of issues (for example global and local concerns) involved in any given topic and to analyze them thoroughly.

Active commitment

The ability to develop and readiness to reflect, question and confront one’s own values, to measure one’s behavior within family and community against one’s values, and to act on one’s own beliefs accordingly and responsibly.

Social competence

The ability and readiness to make contact with other people, to interact respectfully with them, to work together with them in a team and to achieve solutions; the ability to express oneself adequately in different situations and to different people.

Resilience, personal responsibility and integrity

The ability to look after oneself physically and emotionally during the challenging and transforming experience that a UWC offers; the personal motivation to adhere to UWC’s common moral and ethical principles, a sense of humility and an ability to listen and value another person’s opinion and experience.

Motivation for UWC