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Scholarships, Awards and Grants

Grants, fellowships, awards and scholarships, each reviewed and decided in its own words.

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Grants and Fellowships

Invite proposals, have experts review them and award the grants.

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Your new call

DraftGrant or fellowship

What it is
It is a grant or fellowship.
What the type sets

It calls its people and things proposals, applications, applicants and reviewers, and the event a call.

It switches on:

  • Interviews
  • Committee
  • Cohorts
  • Mentors
  • Portfolio

The type, its words and its features can be changed in Programme Settings while the programme is a draft.

Who it is for
Grant, fellowship and innovation cells at universities, research parks, government missions and foundations.
The words it uses
EntryproposalSubmissionapplicationParticipantapplicantEvaluatorreviewerEventcall
How it is judged
Expert reviewers score each proposal against your rubric, then a committee votes Accept, Waitlist or Decline and the chair confirms. Every decision letter is checked before it goes.
Rounds it suggests
EligibilityExpert reviewCommittee
Switched on for you
InterviewsCommitteeCohortsMentorsPortfolioAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Fellowships

Choose the people to back, from application to final selection.

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Your new fellowship

DraftFellowship

What it is
It is a fellowship.
What the type sets

It calls its people and things candidates, applications, applicants and reviewers, and the event a fellowship.

It switches on:

  • Interviews
  • Committee
  • Cohorts
  • Mentors
  • Portfolio

The type, its words and its features can be changed in Programme Settings while the programme is a draft.

Who it is for
Fellowships that choose people rather than proposals.
The words it uses
EntrycandidateSubmissionapplicationParticipantapplicantEvaluatorreviewerEventfellowship
How it is judged
Reviewers score each candidate, the strongest are interviewed, and a final round selects the fellows.
Rounds it suggests
EligibilityExpert reviewInterviewsSelection
Switched on for you
InterviewsCommitteeCohortsMentorsPortfolioAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Awards

Take nominations, have your jury shortlist them and name the winners.

The Certificates page with a Certificate of Participation previewed beside its design settings.
Winner, merit and participation certificates in your colour, each with a public page that proves it is real.
Who it is for
Awards programmes run by institutions, associations and companies, from nominations to the winners.
The words it uses
EntrynomineeSubmissionnominationParticipantnomineeEvaluatorjurorEventawards programme
How it is judged
Your jury ranks the nominees or compares them head-to-head, shortlists and names the winners. Winners receive a certificate anyone can verify.
Rounds it suggests
NominationsJury shortlistWinners
Switched on for you
Tracks, prizes and problemsJudging modesCertificatesAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

Scholarships

Check who is eligible, verify documents, choose the scholars and track each year's payments and renewal.

Create a Programme

Your new scholarship

DraftScholarship

What it is
It is a scholarship.
What the type sets

It calls its people and things applicants, applications, applicants and reviewers, and the event a scholarship.

It switches on:

  • Committee
  • Cohorts
  • Portfolio
  • Certificates

The type, its words and its features can be changed in Programme Settings while the programme is a draft.

Who it is for
Universities, foundations and companies awarding scholarships on need and merit, with documents and a yearly renewal.
The words it uses
EntryapplicantSubmissionapplicationParticipantapplicantEvaluatorreviewerEventscholarship
How it is judged
Eligibility reviewers check the rules and documents, scorers read applications with sensitive answers removed, and an awards committee sets each award against the budget.
Rounds it suggests
Eligibility and documentsMerit reviewCommittee and awardRenewal
Switched on for you
CommitteeCohortsPortfolioCertificatesAnnouncements too. Switch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.

  1. Set-up

    Amounts, instalments, renewal and referees

    Award, budget, places, instalments and renewal in one place. Referees need no account.

    Scholarship settings: the usual award, budget and places, two instalments, renewal for up to 3 years, and the referees each applicant needs
    Scholarship settings: amounts, instalments, renewal and referees.

  2. Eligibility

    Applicants check they are eligible first

    Applicants check against the published rules first. Those answers are checked and forgotten.

    An eligibility check on a phone: last annual result and annual family income, checked against the scholarship's published rules
    The eligibility check on a phone, before the application.

  3. Verification

    Rules, documents and sensitive answers

    Rules, documents and references checked in turn. Sensitive answers stay with the eligibility team.

    • Income, category and disability answers reach only the people checking eligibility
    Eligibility and documents: an application checked against the published rules, with its sensitive answers shown only to the eligibility team
    Eligibility and documents: the published rules and the sensitive answers, shown here only.

  4. Blind scoring

    Blind scoring that holds

    In scholarships, fellowships and awards, reviewers in a blind round see case numbers, and written answers reach them with names removed. An entry stays blind for the reviewers who judged it blind.

    A blind merit review round: applicants listed by case number with their level of study, deadline and status
    A blind merit round: case numbers and the level of study, never names.

  5. Awards

    Awards against the budget

    Choose the scholars and set each award against the budget, and see what is left as you go. Before you confirm, the page lists what is still open, such as a document waiting to be checked.

    Awards and amounts: the budget, what is awarded and left, a list of what is still open, and the ranked shortlist with an award for each scholar
    Awards and amounts: the shortlist, each award set against the budget.

  6. Instalments

    Instalments and renewals, recorded

    Record each instalment your organisation pays and decide each year's renewal against the condition you set. IdeaScore records payments; it never holds or moves money.

    Instalments and renewals: planned, paid and still to pay, then each scholar's instalments by year and the renewal condition
    Instalments and renewals for each scholar.

Questions About Scholarships, Awards and Grants

Yes, while the programme is a draft. Change it in Programme Settings, under Event type. Once the first application arrives the type is fixed, but you can still rename the people and things it uses.
A grant or fellowship call ranks proposals. A fellowship ranks people, so it speaks of candidates, adds interviews, and masks the candidate's name for IdeaScore AI like any other person's name.
Yes. Each round chooses how it is judged: rubric scores, ranking, head-to-head, live pitch or a public vote, where your organisation has turned voting on.
No. IdeaScore records instalments and tranches your finance team pays; it never holds or moves money.
Only the people checking eligibility. Mark a question as sensitive and its answers stay with them, kept for a retention period you set; scorers never receive them.
No. Juries see the nominee, never the person who nominated them.

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Grants and Fellowships

Invite proposals, have experts review them and award the grants.

Who it is for
Grant, fellowship and innovation cells at universities, research parks, government missions and foundations.
The words it uses
EntryproposalSubmissionapplicationParticipantapplicantEvaluatorreviewerEventcall
How it is judged
Expert reviewers score each proposal against your rubric, then a committee votes Accept, Waitlist or Decline and the chair confirms. Every decision letter is checked before it goes.
Rounds it suggests
EligibilityExpert reviewCommittee
Switched on for you
InterviewsCommitteeCohortsMentorsPortfolioSwitch any feature off, or another on, in Programme Settings.
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