In order to promote excellence in academic disciplines within the Visual Arts Area, NABA intends to support highly motivated and talented young people, by offering a scholarship that partially covers the tuition fees to attend Two-year Masters of Arts or a One-year Academic Masters starting in October 2025, February 2026 or October 2026.
Scholarship will be awarded based on the evaluation of the candidate’s portfolio, motivation letter and curriculum vitae.
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Master of Arts:
- Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies
Academic Masters:
- Contemporary Art Markets
- Photography and Visual Design
- Art and Ecology
- Registrar and Collection Management
Academic Master's programmes are available exclusively for the October intake
Who can participate?
The promotion is valid for international students. Students must have a University Degree Certificate or a First-Level Academic Diploma or equivalent title.
Prize
The best profile will be awarded a scholarship of 7000€ that partially covers the tuition fees to attend the first year of the selected Master of Arts or Academic Master Programme starting in October 2025, February 2026, or October 2026.
Prizes will be calculated on the standard tuition fee amounting to:
→ €21.600 for EU and non-EU passport holders (Regional Tax for Academic Studies and Graduation Thesis Fee are not included) for NABA Master of Arts Programme in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies; OR
→ €18.500 for EU passport holders / 23.000 for non-EU passport holders (Graduation Thesis Fee is not included) for one of the NABA Academic Master Programmes;
→ For students with residence within the EU from at least 3 years for Master of Arts Programmes:
◼ 1st income bracket €2.200;
◼ 2nd income bracket €2.400;
◼ 3rd income bracket €2.600;
◼ 4th income bracket €2.800;
◼ 5th income bracket €3.000;
◼ 6th income bracket €3.000;
◼ Achievement of at least 40 credits by the end of the 3rd exams session - Fall/September;
◼ Weighted average not lower than 27/30 by the end of the 3rd exams session - Fall/September.
→ In order to obtain the renewal of the scholarship for the 2nd Academic Year, the recipient should comply with NABA re-enrolment procedure and meet the requirements mentioned here above. At the end of the third exam session (Fall/September), the Registration Office will check whether the recipient meets the requirements to renew the scholarship. Scholarship confirmation will be communicated to the student by October 31st.
→ For Masters of Arts all scholarship amounts will be deducted for every Academic
Year from the last instalment of Tuition Fees.
→ In case of Academic Master Programmes, the scholarship will be deducted from the balance of the tuition fee.
→ Scholarship amounts for Two-year Master of Arts Degrees are calculated out of the yearly total cost net of the Regional Tax for the Right to University Education equal to €140.
→ The scholarship will be no longer applicable in case the student: does not enrol to NABA within the deadline set out in the admission communication; renounces to attend university or demands to be transferred to another Academy/University; incurs in more serious disciplinary penalties than written reprimand for infractions against NABA.
→ Selected participants accept that part of their work will be published on websites and/or social media channels of the institutions involved.
All interested students can submit their application by sending their documents and portfolio to info.dach@naba.it
The deadline for sending applications is August 30th, 2025.