The Confucius Institute at Unicamp has a partnership with Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), which offers courses and scholarships for exchange students. Learn more about BJTU and take a look at the opportunities it can offer you!
With the aim of training teachers of Chinese as a foreign language and facilitating the promotion of Chinese language and culture, the Confucius Institute (Hanban) headquarters launched the CIS (English, “Confucius Institute Scholarships) to support students, scholars and Chinese teacher to study the Chinese language at universities in China, here called host institutions.
To enroll, the student must meet the following requirements:
- You cannot be a Chinese citizen;
- Be in good physical and mental condition;
- Must be committed to the international teaching and promotion of the Chinese language;
- Must be between 16 and 35 years of age as of September 1, 2019. Applicants who currently work as Chinese language teachers can be up to 45 years old, while graduate scholarship applicants must not be over 25 years old deity.
To apply, check the “Confucius Institute Scholarships” programs of the host institution, create an account on the cis.chinese.cn website , apply for the desired scholarship, and print the generated material. Submit it to the Confucius Institute office for review and approval by management in the system.
“Scholarships in China can be searched directly by interested parties through the following address and through Chinese university domains ending in “…edu.cn”.
How to create an account
BUG : If the chosen password contains special characters (!,@,#,$, etc.), an error may occur stating that the password has fewer than 6 characters, regardless of the password's length. In this case, you should choose a password containing only lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers (and with more than 6 characters).
When you finish filling out, click “立即注册/Registered”
To sign up
On your homepage, select the “填写申请表 Fill in” field.
In the top left corner, in the “填表说明 Illustrate” field, you will see a preview of the content of the form and what documents are required.
It is extremely important to read this section carefully. In addition to the documents listed there, you will also need a certificate from the Confucius Institute showing the period during which you were a student. If you participated in an exchange program in China, you will also need documents that attest to this. After reading it, proceed to the next page by clicking “下一步/Next”.
On the “其本信息 Basic information” page, fields with an asterisk are mandatory.
In the “证件照片/certificate photo” field, what must be sent is your photo on your identification document, that is, a 3×4 face photo. The image must be smaller than 300KB and have the extension JPG,/.GIF/.BMP/.JPEG.
In the emergency information field in China, it is necessary to include a field. We suggest including information from the BJTU international relations team.
On the next page (“教育背景 Educational background”), it is necessary to upload a certified copy of the diploma (as stated in item 3 of the “illustrate” section).
In the field “是否是孔子学院学员/Have you ever studied Chinese in Confucius Institute?”, select yes, select the period of study at the Confucius Institute, and upload the certificate proving your studies at the Confucius Institute.
In the next section, if you have exchanged in China, select the yes option, indicate the period and upload the necessary documents.
Fill in the “工作经历 Work experience” page.
Then move on to the next section (“语言能力/ Language ability) and then the next section. Select your level of English and Mandarin. Then choose the last level of the HSK and HSKK exams taken, enter your score and upload the supporting document.
In the “奖学金申请 Application Category” section, select the following information in the following fields:
- “推荐机构类别/ Type of Recommending Institute”, choose 孔子学院;
- “洲/Continent”, choose 美洲;
- “国家/ Country”, choose 巴西;
- “推荐机构名称/ Name of Recommending Institute” choose 坎皮纳斯州立大学孔子学院
In the next field, choose the one-semester program (“一学期研修生/One-Semester Study”) or the one-year program (“一学年研修生/One-Academic-Year Study”).
Important : If you participated in a six-month exchange program through Unicamp, you cannot choose the six-month option, only the one-year option.
In the next field (“申请院校及专业/Institutions and Majors of Preference in China) and select the option “汉语言文学/Chinese Language and Literature”. As for the institution, select 北京交通大学 as your first option. The second option can be an option of your choice. It is not possible for the first and second options to be the same.
Finally, on the “推荐人 Referee” page, you need to upload the letter of recommendation and fill in the data with Instituto Confúcio at Unicamp:
In “申请陈述 application statement”, you must write a letter in Chinese between 200 and 800 characters explaining your background in the Chinese language, study plan and the objectives of your trip to China.
Once you have filled in all the data, simply send an image file of your signature
Now just print and send the form.
We inform that it is the sole responsibility of the student interested in the scholarships to fully and carefully read the notice available on the website, which contains information on the exchange modalities, applicable universities, duration of the exchange, requirements, deadlines, scholarship values, necessary documents, among other important information. The notice is available in three languages: Mandarin, English and Spanish.
The notice is also available in English and Spanish. To change languages, simply click on the desired language.
It is also the student's responsibility to check the availability of the university to which they would like to apply for the scholarship, as well as to check the step-by-step process for enrolling in the program. It is not up to the Confucius Institute at Unicamp, nor the Executive Board of International Relations at Unicamp (DERI), to act as intermediary, with the exception of Beijing Jiaotong University, which is the partner university for the establishment of the Confucius Institute.
For more information about the scholarships
If you have any questions regarding the call for applications, please write to scholarships@hanban.org.