Fund Details
Previously AUT Creativity and Innovation Scholarship - 2023

Brief Description:

Previously Unavailable (PU) believes the best way to predict the future is to create it. As a branding, innovation and venture studio, they work with ambitious leaders and businesses who are inventing, or reinventing, to create impact both here in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world.

The future that Previously Unavailable wants to create involves helping build a creative industry with young people from more diverse backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures. PU believes the entrepreneurs, researchers, strategists and designers of tomorrow will thrive best as a more inclusive community and industry.

Refer to the Regulations for eligibility criteria.

Description:

Previously is delighted to invest in a scholarship package to support Māori and Pacific students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) on a pathway to a creative industry (design, branding, innovation, creative).

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Applicants for these scholarships must:
  1. Be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Māori of Pacific descent and declare this ethnicity and whakapapa when applying for admission to AUT.
  2. Be a full-time student at AUT enrolled by the closing date in the first year of a bachelor’s degree programme focussed on a creative industry (design, branding, innovation, creative).
  3. Students with family, work or community commitments outside of study who are enrolled in at least 30 points per semester may apply.


Amount and Type of Award:

  • One scholarship is available annually.
  • Each scholarship covers tuition fees and compulsory student fees (domestic equivalent) for full-time study in Year 2 and Year 3 of a bachelor's degree programme at AUT focussed on design or innovation.
  • In addition to the scholarship the successful scholar may be assigned a mentor from Previously Unavailable and be employed on a part-time basis with Previously during semester breaks as mutually agreed under a separate employment contract.

Tenure:

  • Two years of full-time study in the second and third years of the approved bachelor's degree programme at AUT.
  • The successful scholar must pass all papers in their first academic year of study and each subsequent academic year to retain the scholarship.

Important Information:

  • The award of this scholarship is conditional on the recipient gaining entry to and enrolling full-time in the approved bachelor’s degree programme at AUT.
  • The recipient must enrol full-time in no less than 120pts during each year of tenure of the scholarship.
  • The award will be paid as tuition fees and compulsory student fees to the recipient’s AUT fees account.


Search Filters:
Citizenship
  • New Zealand Citizen
  • New Zealand Permanent Resident
    Level of Study
    • Undergraduate (1st Year)
      AUT School
      • School of Future Environments
      • School of Art and Design
      • School of Communication Studies
        Other Criteria
        • Maori
        • Pacific
          Begin Accepting Applications Date:
          20 Jul 2023
          Deadline Date (NZT Time Zone) :
          31 Aug 2023 11:55 PM