Through GO Summer!, Queen Mary students have the chance to apply for partial funding from Queen Mary to help towards the cost of participating in an international summer experience from a selection of Queen Mary's partner universities' summer schools abroad. Learn more about the Benefits of going abroad during your degree.
Queen Mary makes these opportunities accessible through securing both tuition-free places at select partner universities abroad as well as financial support available through the GO Summer! Bursary, with financial contributions from the Queen Mary Annual Fund, and the Turing Scheme. Find full details below about eligibility, opportunities and funding available.
You can apply for either:
Visit the links above to discover the individual destinations that await you abroad, how to apply, application deadlines and the total potential funding you could receive from Queen Mary. If you have any questions, please email us at summerschool@qmul.ac.uk.
The tuition-free places and all associated, available financial support are distributed according to Queen Mary's Funding priority group system, with priority group (1) being considered the highest financial need. This ensures that available resources and subsidised opportunities are prioritised for students from low-income and widening participation backgrounds.
Qualifying in a priority group on the basis of household income for GO Summer! opportunities is determined by the annual household income data for the current academic year held by Student Finance as of 01 January 2024. If your household income is not assessed by Student Finance, or if you have not provided your consent for Student Finance to grant your university access to your data by this date, Queen Mary will not have access to this and will therefore not be able to consider you for the relevant priority group on the basis of annual household income.
This is a fixed award amount, and eligibility will depend on your priority group status, and selection will depend on remaining funds available.
If your application is successful and you are awarded the GO Summer! Bursary, you may use this to help cover expenses you will incur during your preparation for / participation in the partner summer school, for example, those related to travel, housing, health insurance, visas etc.
If your application is successful, you must fulfil the below requirements to remain eligible to receive the GO Summer! Bursary (you will be emailed the first document during pre-departure). Failure to do so would result in you being required to pay back any funding received:
If you study abroad at one of the GO Summer! summer school opportunities for a minimum duration of 4 consecutive weeks (28 days), you can also apply to Global Opportunities to receive additional funding from the Turing Scheme, as part of the GO Summer! 2024 application process.
If eligible, you could receive a generous cost of living grant to help you cover your subsistence costs abroad: this would be £17 (priority groups 2-7) or £21 (priority group 1) per day of your placement. Priority group 1 students are also eligible for a fixed-rate travel grant depending on the distance to the destination abroad (consult the individual opportunities to know the travel grant amount available per host destination). As this is a grant, this is not money that you have to pay back except if you do not meet the requirements as a funding recipient (see below).
In the selection process, the GO team considers the highest scoring applications as assessed by the specified criteria in conjunction with Queen Mary's funding priority groups system. This ensures that available funding first reaches students coming from a widening access background who demonstrate the highest financial need and who also submit strong applications.
Please consult the individual opportunities via the links below to know the total amount of funding (including Turing Scheme) that you could be eligible to receive.
If your application is successful and you have been informed that you will be considered eligible for Turing Scheme funding, as a funding recipient you must fulfil the below requirements (the first two documents will be emailed to you during pre-departure). Failure to do so would result in you being required to pay back any funding received:
You must contribute to the promotion of short term international experiences by undertaking a minimum of one of the following activities:
All applications are governed by the terms and conditions as specified on the GO Summer! webpages. If you submit a partner summer school application or a GO Summer! funding application, you do so on the understanding that you meet the prerequisites of application and you are confirming your acceptance of these terms.
GO Summer! Terms and Conditions [PDF 271KB]
All complete applications received by students qualifying for:
Selection is managed by the Global Opportunities team who will then score the applications received by that point out of a total 100 points, based on pre-set criteria consisting of: