- send until 1 September, for the graduates of high schools/pre-university, the graduation diploma or a certificate that the applicant has graduated high school, if applicable.
- send to DRCES the confirmation that the successful candidate will use the scholarship granted by the Romanian state through the MAE.
- Once the files are registered with DRCES/MAE they cannot be completed with other documents except for the copy of the graduation diploma/certificate.

- Incomplete files are not taken into consideration and are not returned.

- Application files rejected by the MAE and MECT selection boards are not returned.

- DRCES does not receive any application files for the MAE scholarships after the announced deadline (15 April 2008). All candidates interested to study in Romania can apply directly to study on their own expenses, by submitting a new file according to the instruction at item I above.

- DRCES will check the correct completion of files. After that they will be submitted to the selection boards of the MAE and MECT. The boards will select the candidates, in keeping to the available number of places, and a number of candidates for the waiting list, in case the selected candidates give up the scholarship, for any reason.

- The MAE selection board will meet until May 15, 2008 to study the files.

- The files of the candidates selected by the MAE board will be sent to the MECT selection board. After its own analysis and selection, this board will issue “the letter of acceptance to study in Romania”. This document is necessary to get the study visa and to enroll at the chosen faculty (the original document).

- In case the candidate does not specify two options for universities and the chosen university cannot offer a place, MECT will make another offer of university (same faculty), according to the availabilities of the Romanian higher education institutions. After receiving the letter of acceptance to study in Romania containing the new university, the candidates are free to accept the scholarship or to reject it, in which case they can apply to study in Romania on their own expenses, in keeping with item I above.

- The candidate will receive the original letter of acceptance to studying Romania, from the diplomatic mission that submitted the file to MAE/DRCES no later July 15, 2008.

- Until 1 September 2008, the diplomatic missions that sent out the candidates’ application files have to send to DRCES (by fax or email):
- the confirmation of each candidate’s decision to use the scholarship granted by the Romanian state through MAE for which he or she has applied;
- where applicable, the copy or the authorized copy of the (high school or university) graduation diploma or of the certificate attesting that the applicant has graduated the respective education cycle, mentioning the date when the proper graduation diploma is issued. In case the diplomatic mission does not send out the applicant’s confirmation, the graduation diploma or the certificate specified above, the file is considered incomplete and the scholarship is taken as refused and is automatically granted to the first candidate on the waiting list.

- Between 20 September – 10 October 2008 the admitted candidates must come in person to the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, Department of International Relations and European Affairs (str. Spiru Haret, nr. 12, room 1) to register personally to study in the Romanian system of education. They will have to present a file with all original documents (whose copies they sent in their application files) and the letter of acceptance to study in the original. The scholarship holders will present to the secretariat of the faculty that accepted them the same original documents with authorized copies, and with the authorized translations in Romanian language and the order to register issued by the MECT.

II. 2.3 List of the documents necessary for a complete application for MAE scholarships

- Cover letter issued by the diplomatic mission of the country of origin accredited to Bucharest or of the Romanian Embassy in the respective country, containing the following:
- Specification the scholarship scheme to which the candidate applies, i.e. “scholarships offered by the Romanian state through MAE’
- The candidate’s full name
- Comments on the candidate or his/her activity if the case may be
- A list of all documents contained in the file

- The document attesting the last cycle of education graduated (graduation diploma) in authorized copy and authorized translation. In case the candidate is still enrolled in the last year of pre-university studies, the file must contain a certificate and its authorized translation, stating that the respective candidate will have the graduation exam at the end of the 2007-2008 school year, specifying the date when the diploma is issued. The candidate must pledge that, in case the file is selected, he /she will present to the diplomatic mission the confirmation that he/she will use the scholarship, the authorized copy of the graduation diploma and its authorized translation, or as the case may be, the copy of the certificate attesting that he/she has graduated, mentioning the date the diploma is issued (the original diploma or the original certificate will have to be produced together will all original documents when the candidate enrolls personally in the Romanian system of education).

- Diploma supplement transcript for the graduated studies (authorized copy and authorized translation):
- The graduates of the pre-university system who will chose to study in the Romanian university system will have to produce the authorized copy of the diploma supplement transcript of the last school cycle, i.e. high school or the equivalent thereof. The candidate in the last year of study will produce the transcript of the previous years and for the first part of the 2007-2008 school year.
- The candidates requiring equivalation of partial studies and the continuation of studies in Romania, the diploma supplement transcript must be accompanied by the authorized copy of the curricula and its authorized translation for the partial studies.
- The under and post graduated candidates requiring post graduate studies must necessarily produce authorized copies of study documents at all university levels, diploma supplement transcripts included.
- Birth certificate authorized copy and authorized translation

- Medical certificate attesting that the candidate does not suffer from transmissible diseases or other illnesses incompatible with the future profession.

- MAE application form (Annex 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3) for a scholarship to study in Romania dully filled in

- MECT application form (Annex 2) for the letter of acceptance to study in Romania. In case the applicant’s file is selected by the MAE and the MECT boards, MECT issues the letter of acceptance to study in the Romanian system of education, based on this application form filled in personally. The letter of acceptance is sent to the candidate through MAE/DRCES and is needed for registering at the university and for getting the long stay visa.

- The candidate’s CV

- 4 recent photographs

The candidates will submit the file in two copies: one containing the authorized copies and the authorized translations of the above documents, and the second containing the simple copies of the documents in the firs file.
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