<h1 style="padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;">Student Scholarship</h1>

As part of Viking Outdoor Footwear’s ongoing efforts to drive innovation in footwear and maintain our standing as the leading outdoor heritage shoe brand in the Nordics, we offer two student scholarships each year.
The first scholarship is offered to university students in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. 
The second scholarship is offered to university students in Europe, North America and Japan.
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What is the purpose of the student scholarships?
The scholarships are offered to promote the study of footwear at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as support university students interested in footwear as an academic area of study by providing them with additional financial aid to cover the costs of course materials, textbooks and other expenses.
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How much are the student scholarships?
Each scholarship is for 15,000 NOK. Two scholarships are awarded each year. For a total of 30,000 NOK.
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Who is eligible to apply?
Applicants must be enrolled as a student at a recognised undergraduate or postgraduate academic institution in Europe, North America or Japan. Moreover, applicants must have completed or be in the process of completing academic work (e.g. written thesis or course project):
which is focussed on footwear, e.g. shoe product design, materials development, podiatry, marketing, brand development, consumer shopping habits &amp; sustainability, and is being completed for academic credits or points
The academic work can be either written and/or in a visual format.
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What are the selection criteria?
The student scholarships are awarded to applicants whose academic work improves footwear knowledge.
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Scholarship applications are assessed solely by Viking Footwear. If the academic work has already been completed, applicants must still be enrolled as a student at a recognised academic institution at the time of the application.
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How to apply?
Email the following to us at ….@&#8230;:
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<li>Your name and contact details. If an academic work has been completed by more than one student, then each of the students must email us their respective name and contact details.</li>
<li>The name of the academic institution where you completed the academic work.</li>
<li>The original title of the academic work.</li>
<li>The date the academic work was/ will be completed.</li>
<li>A 500-word summary in English if your application is a written academic work. The summary must be shared in an attached Microsoft Word document.</li>
<li>A 200 to 300 word summary in English with max six (6) supporting images if your application is a visual based academic work. The summary with images must be shared in an attached Microsoft Word document.</li>
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When to apply?
Applications can be submitted between the 1st April to 30th September of each year.
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<h3>Terms and conditions of the student scholarship</h3>
To allow for the effective and fair administration of the student university scholarships, applicants agree and confirm to the following terms and conditions.
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Student scholarship decision
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<li>The assessment of applications and offering of scholarships by Viking Footwear is final, and cannot be appealed by applicants.</li>
<li>Only applications with academic work focussed on footwear can qualify for the scholarships. Academic work with an alternative focus will be disqualified.</li>
<li>Only applications with academic work shared in an attached Microsoft Word document will be assessed. Applications with academic work submitted in any other document format will be disqualified.</li>
<li>Any additional information added to an application such as personal circumstances will disqualify an application.</li>
<li>Any application submitted before the 1st April or after the 30th September will disqualify an application.</li>
<li>Any application which exceeds the permitted word or image limits will be disqualified.</li>
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Student scholarship notification
Viking Footwear will only notify applicants if their application is successful. Notification of a successful application will be emailed to the email address used by the applicants when applying for the scholarship.
Successful applicants will be notified in October of each year.
If applicants do not respond to the notification of a successful application within three weeks, Viking Footwear will rescind the scholarship offer, and offer the scholarship to another applicant.
Viking Footwear is not responsible if a notification is redirected by an email service provider to a spam/ junk email folder, and/ or if applicants no longer have access to the email addresses used when applying for the scholarship.
A final notice of successful applicants will be published by Viking Footwear on vikingfootwear.com in December of each year. Viking Footwear may publish the notice of successful applicants on other marketing channels such as Facebook and/ or Instagram.
If applicants do not receive notification by Viking Footwear then this means their application has not been successful.
Viking Footwear cannot provide applicants with feedback if their application has not been successful. Neither can updates on the progress or evaluation of an application be shared with applicants.
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Number of applications
An applicant can only apply once every calendar year for a student scholarship. In cases where an applicant makes multiple applications in the same year, all applications will be disqualified.
An applicant can apply a maximum of three times for a student scholarship.
An applicant cannot be a co-applicant in more than one application in the same year. In cases where an applicant is a co-applicant in more than one application, then all the applications will be disqualified.
An applicant cannot be awarded two scholarships in the same year.
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Sharing and use of personal data
The name of successful applicants, and details about their academic work including the title, summary and submitted images will be communicated and published by Viking Footwear.
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Intellectual property
No party acquires any intellectual property rights via student scholarships except the limited rights necessary to share and use personal data for the purpose of communicating student scholarship results.
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Quality of the academic work 
The academic work submitted by applicants is original, not subject to a non-disclosure or similar agreement, and the applicant is the sole author of the academic work unless points 21 to 24 are applicable.
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Multiple student applicants
If a submitted academic work is the work of multiple students, then the scholarship will be divided equally among the students.
For a scholarship to be equally divided among multiple students, each of the students must separately submit their contact details when applying for a scholarship.
In any instance where a submitted academic work is the work of multiple students and not all students have submitted their contact details then the application will be disqualified.
The total amount of a scholarship cannot exceed 15,000 NOK irrespective of the number of students who submit an application.
 
Payment of scholarships
Viking Footwear pays scholarship via bank transfer, or other payment method determined by Viking Footwear. Viking Footwear will not pay any bank transfer, currency exchange or similar charges that may be incurred by successful applicants.
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Legal relationship
The student scholarships do not create any agency, partnership relationship and/ or employment.
These terms and conditions supersede any other communications or information on the student scholarships.
Viking Footwear reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions of the student scholarships at any time without prior written notice.
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