Scholarships & Services

PIA Scholarships

Scholarship opportunities are available to students (BSc, MSc), PhD students and to young researchers. All scholarships are provided on a competitive basis and subject to application. The procedure is managed by the Pro Progressio Foundation and the detailed calls for applications are regularly published on its webpage.

The following information is tentative.

  1. Scholarships for students (BSc and MSc)
    1. Number of calls per year: two
    2. Number of scholarships per call: 3-4
    3. Duration of scholarship: 3-6 months
    4. Scholarship amount: 250.000-600.000 HUF
  2. Scholarship for PhD students
    1. Number of calls per year: 1
    2. Number of scholarships per call: 1-2
    3. Duration of scholarship: at most 10 months
    4. Scholarship amount: not exceeding 300.000 HUF/month
  3. Scholarship for young researcher
    1. Number of calls per year: 1
    2. Number of scholarships per call: 1-2
    3. Duration of scholarship: at most 10 months
    4. Scholarship amount: not exceeding 300.000 HUF/month

Remark: BSc/MSc students applying for scholarships are expected to have published PIA-related research (conference paper, TDK report, journal paper).

AWS could services

AWS IaaS is available to students participating in the PIA project and working on PIA-related research topics. Cloud-based storage and high-performance GPU-based architectures allow to execute machine learning algorithms in a professional environment similar to the one used by the industry. Instructions of use is given to interested PIA students who can also work with the AWS DeepRacer platform.

Duckietown

Under the aegis of the PIA project the Duckietown environment is available at our laboratory at the faculty. The Duckietown environment features a