The Talent Grant is aimed at providing financial support to excellent students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and Suriname who wish to study at the AHK. The AHK Talent Grant will be available for students for the academic year 2025-2026. The Talent Grant 2025 is a discount of € 3.710 on the tuition fee for one study year.

• The student or applicant is a national from a non-EEA country (excluding the countries Suriname and Switzerland that are not eligible for this grant scheme);
• The student or applicant demonstrates exceptional merit;
• The student will be living full-time in the Netherlands while studying at the AHK;
• The student has to pay the non-state funded, and thus higher, institutional tuition fees;
• The applicant who is not yet enrolled at the AHK, must have passed the audition or the  entrance exam successfully.
• Each application will be assessed on the basis of the student’s potential, as well as their financial situation.

Each applicant will need to be assessed by the head of their study programme at the AHK before they can apply for this grant. Please contact the student counsellor of your academy to find out whether you meet the criteria of this grant. If you are eligible to apply according to the head of the study programme, you’ll receive an application form from the student adviser or contact person for the Talent Grant. You will need to submit the application before 1 June 2025.

As each art discipline requires their own set of skills and talents, the head of the study programme is entitled to set their own criteria for what is considered ‘exceptional merit’. The director of each academy will make a ranking of the applications; the ranking will be presented to the Executive Board of the AHK for a final decision. The application results will be announced no later than 15 July 2025.

The Talent Grant cannot be granted retrospectively for academic years that the student has already completed.

If you are a student at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam, please contact Ruth Graf at ruth.graf@ahk.nl
If you are student at another academy of the AHK, please contact your academy’s student counsellor for further details.