IELTS Award - Scholarship

One successful applicant will be selected and will receive an award of up to 10,000 EUROS to assist with his/her tuition fees and/or accommodation.

The IELTS Award is open to everyone.

The award can be used to cover tuition fees for one academic year, or accommodation expenses up to a maximum of 10,000 EUROS.

You can use the award at any institution of higher education in any country including Spain that recognises IELTS for the purposes of undergraduate or postgraduate admission requirements. You can search our worldwide list of recognising institutions.

Global IELTS recognition is growing all the time and if the institution of higher education you plan to attend is not listed, we strongly recommend you contact the institution directly for confirmation of their latest admission requirements.

Yes, you can apply, however to be eligible, you will need to provide by 30 June 2022, an IELTS TFR form with an overall band 6.5 - B2 (MCERL) issued by the British Council in Spain.

Yes. Only shortlisted applicants will have to provide an acceptance letter or conditional offer from the university they plan to attend by 15 July 2022. This university must use IELTS scores to satisfy their English language requirements for admission.

You can apply for the IELTS Award in Spain if you provide an IELTS Test Report Form (TRF) dated between 1 May 2021 and 30 June 2022, issued by the British Council in Spain.

Yes, if the test was administered by the British Council at your school or university and you received your scores on an IELTS Test Report Form (TRF) dated between 1 May 2021 and 30 June 2022, issued and stamped by an official British Council centre in Spain.

Yes, you are eligible. You will have to give details of other funding sources in your application. However, if you are applying to other grant authorities, you are advised to check if they allow you to receive another award.

Yes, you are eligible. If you receive an award that covers your full tuition costs, you can still apply for the British Council IELTS Award, as we will cover your accommodation expenses. If we find that you have not disclosed full details of any other awards, we reserve the right to withdraw or terminate the IELTS Award.

Employees of the British Council along with their relatives (up to second degree of kinship) are excluded from the IELTS Award programme;

• People wishing to apply for the IELTS Award will need to ensure that they have their own access to the Internet. The British Council is not responsible for assisting with access to websites or for providing other technical assistance to any applicant;
• Access to the British Council website is permitted only under the terms of operation of the relevant server and the technical or other conditions and specifications of this programme;
• Applicants bear full responsibility for the complete and correct filling in, and submission of, their personal information;
• By submitting an application for the IELTS Award, applicants hereby consent to the publication of their names on British Council websites, if they are shortlisted;
• The IELTS Award is non-transferable and cannot be used by any person other than the successful candidate; 
• The IELTS Award will be paid directly to the Higher Education Institution that the successful candidate will attend, subject to the British Council officially confirming his/her application status with the institution; If the Award is applied to cover accommodation expenses, the candidate might need to prepay the expenses and the British Council will reimburse the amount once an invoice is produced.
• The British Council will not bear any responsibility for the loss of the IELTS Award, should the organisation be unable to notify the successful candidate, due to any issues connected to his/her e-mail, including, but not limited to, technical issues;
• The British Council reserves the right to allocate or withdraw the IELTS Award at its discretion, should the successful candidate not respond to the British Council, including failure to provide the British Council with any required information and documentation by 15 July 2022. After this deadline, the responsibility of the British Council ceases.
• The successful candidate consents to appear in relevant advertisements connected to the IELTS Award and future award programmes, or to have his/her name and photo or video used for the purposes of promotion by the British Council, without receiving any remuneration; 
• Participation in the IELTS Award programme entails the provision of full and unreserved consent of the applicants towards the British Council for their personal information to be registered in a file, which will be kept in accordance with Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal as it is currently in force in Spain, and British Council Standards. The participants have the right to ask for a copy of the information the British Council holds on him/her, and the right to ask the British Council to correct any inaccurate information or delete his/her personal information, according to the specific provisions of the relevant legislation, by e-mail to ieltsaward.eu@britishcouncil.org ; 
• The information you submit will be used to consider your eligibility and suitability for the IELTS Award and to manage the application process and the forwarding prize to the Higher Educational Institution or to the winner candidate; 
• The decision of the awarding panel is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Participation in the IELTS Award programme presupposes and entails unreserved acceptance of all the terms and conditions included in this document along with the additional documents stated below.