The RIBA is inviting applications from architecture students at RIBA/CAA-validated schools around the world for the 2014 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student to fund international research on a topic related to the survival of towns or cities.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 25 April 2014. Entries will be judged by a panel which includes Lord Foster and RIBA President, Stephen Hodder.

Eligible students must:

• be enrolled in a School of Architecture with RIBA or CAA validated degree programmes or from a specially invited school or architecture centre AND
• have successfully completed at least the first year of a Part 1 degree.

Each school can only submit one application produced by one student.

Please download the guidance notes and application form below:

 2014 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship Application Form
File size: 135kB

About the scholarship 

The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has been running since 2007. 

The spirit of the scholarship is based on Lord Foster's own experience as a student of architecture: 

'As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation - liberating and exhilarating in so many ways. Today it is my privilege to fund the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy - offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work - for generations to come.'

Thanks to the generosity and support of Lord Foster and Foster + Partners, the scholarship has supported seven students seeking the same inspiration. You can read about their travel experiences below.

2013: Charles Booth Going Abroad

2012: Material Economies: recycling practices in informal settlements along African longitude 30ºE

2011: Sanitation: a case study across eight metropolises

2010: In search of cold spaces

2009: Ancestral cities, ancestral sustainability

2008: Role of public transport in shaping sustainable humane habitats

2007: East: exploring and experiencing the East Asian Communist city

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