Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023 from the PEHF Board of Directors!
PEHF MM2023 ESTONIA IFMSA GA SCHOLARSHIP – RESULTS OF EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS
DEAR APPLICANTS FOR THE PEHF MM2023 GA SCHOLARSHIP,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the results from the evaluation of all applications for the MM2023 Scholarship, provided by the Prof. Erik Holst Fund to a promising medical student, member of IFMSA, in order to cover part of the expenses for his/her participation at the IFMSA General Assembly – March Meeting 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia.
We received applications in total, 78 excellent applications from all 5 IFMSA Regions. After a thorough, 2-rounds-long evaluation that lasted 7 days, we finally reached to the winner, who is:
Mr. Ahmed Abdelrahman Ahmed from Egypt!
Congratulations!
The Board of Directors of the Fund will be in touch with him in the following days in order to arrange properly how the scholarship will be received by its beneficiary.
We would like to take this opportunity and provide you with full details on how the whole evaluation procedure took place, in terms of transparency.
The Fund first announced the call for applications for the scholarship on November 29th over Erik Holst Facebook page and erikholstfund.com and provided a timespan of 8 days for receiving applications online. The first announcement was also posted on various IFMSA-related Facebook groups, and was followed by 1 reminder as the deadline approached. The deadline for receiving applications expired on December 7th 2022, 23:59 (GMT/UTC). The application procedure was done at our website erikholstfund.com by filling in an online application form, which included a CV and a Motivation Letter of each applicant as a prerequisite for application submission. Through these two texts, we would be able to better become acquainted with each candidate and take a thorough look into their aspirations from their possible participation in the GA, their vision of IFMSA and themselves in it, as well as their background and achievements both academic, professional and personal. As the scholarship aims mainly in students who cannot attend the GA due to financial constraints, special attention was given to any relevant information provided by the applicant. Applicants that haven’t attended a GA before, and those who had previously applied for our scholarship programme were also seen in a more favorable way.
After the 1st round of evaluation, a ranking list of all applicants was determined. Then, all applicants were arranged according to IFMSA Region and the first two of each Region were chosen, which provided us with a list of 19 finalists in total, due to some ties. Then, a 2nd round of evaluation followed, starting with these 19 finalists, which led us to the final ranking list that gave the winner of the scholarship.
Finally, we would like to thank once again all those who applied, especially those who made it to the list of the finalists. We are sorry that we could not give more scholarships this time, but hopefully we will be able to do so for the next GA, that is the AM2023! We do encourage all of the applicants to re-apply next time, when the call for applications is released! We will be happy to receive your applications once again when time comes!
Check our website erikholstfund.com for more news & updates on the GA Scholarships and other upcoming grants, as we will be enriching its content soon, after the scholarship is received, as we shall be following our grantee Mr. Ahmed and his experience at the IFMSA GA- MM2023!
Kind regards,
Konstantinos M. Roditis
Chair, Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors
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The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors: Konstantinos Roditis (Chair), Yon Chong (Secretary), Stefan Buttigieg (External Relations Officer).
The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Alumni Partners: Ljiljana Lukic, Giacomo Cinelli, Ahmet Murt
And IFMSA Vice-president on Finance: Evelina Roubou
Erik Holst AM2022 GA Scholarship: and the winner is…
Dear applicants for the PEHF AM2022 GA scholarship,
Dear IFMSA members worldwide,
Dear IFMSA Alumni,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the results from the evaluation of all applications for the AM2022 Scholarship, provided by the Prof. Erik Holst Fund to a promising medical student, member of IFMSA, in order to cover some part (if not all) of the expenses for his/her participation at the IFMSA General Assembly – August Meeting 2022 in Turkey.
We received 47 applications in total, 47 excellent applications from all 5 IFMSA Regions. After a thorough, 2-rounds-long evaluation that lasted 11 days, we finally reached to the winner, who is:
Ms. Batool Jayyousi from Palestine!
Congratulations!
The Board of Directors of the Fund will be in touch with her in the following days in order to arrange properly how the scholarship will be received by its beneficiary.
We would like to take this opportunity and provide you with full details on how the whole evaluation procedure took place, in terms of transparency.
The Fund first announced the call for applications for the scholarship on April 21st over Erik Holst Facebook page and erikholstfund.com and provided a timespan of 10 days for receiving applications online. The first announcement was also posted on various IFMSA-related Facebook groups, and was followed by 1 reminder as the deadline approached. The deadline for receiving applications expired on May 1st 2022, 12:00 (GMT+2). The application procedure was done at our website erikholstfund.com by filling in an online application form, which included a CV and a Motivation Letter of each applicant as a prerequisite for application submission. Through these two texts, we would be able to better become acquainted with each candidate and take a thorough look into their aspirations from their possible participation in the GA, their vision of IFMSA and themselves in it, as well as their background and achievements both academic, professional and personal. As the scholarship aims mainly in students who cannot attend the GA due to financial constraints, special attention was given to any relevant information provided by the applicant. Applicants that haven’t attended a GA before, and those who had previously applied for our scholarship programme were also seen in a more favorable way.
After the 1st round of evaluation, a ranking list of all applicants was determined. Then, all applicants were arranged according to IFMSA Region and the first of each Region was chosen, which provided us with a list of 10 finalists in total. Then, a 2nd round of evaluation followed, starting with these 10 finalists, which led us to the final ranking list that gave the winner of the scholarship.
Finally, we would like to thank once again all those who applied, especially those who made it to the list of the finalists. We are sorry that we could not give more scholarships this time, but hopefully we will be able to do so for the next GA, that is the MM2023! We do encourage all of the applicants to reapply next time, when the call for applications is released! We will be happy to receive your applications once again when time comes!
Check our website erikholstfund.com for more news & updates on the GA Scholarships and other upcoming grants, as we will be enriching its content soon, after the scholarship is received, as we shall be following our grantee Ms. Jayyousi and her experience at the IFMSA GA- AM2022!
Kind regards,
Konstantinos M. Roditis
Chair, Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors
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The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors: Konstantinos Roditis (Chair), Yon Chong (Secretary), Stefan Buttigieg (External Relations Officer).
The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Alumni Partners: Ljiljana Lukic, Giacomo Cinelli, Ahmet Murt
And IFMSA Vice-president on Finance: Rajesh Sharma
NEW📣 Call for applications for the Prof. Erik Holst Fund GA Scholarship for attending the IFMSA August Meeting 2022
Dear medical students worldwide,
This is the official call for applications for our next GA scholarship programme, which will allow one medical student to attend the next IFMSA meeting in August 2022.
500 EUR will be awarded to the best applicant, after the evaluation process ends at the end of April.
More information and the application form to be found at: https://erikholstfund.com/ga-scholarship-am2022
Erik Holst AM21 GA Scholarship Awarded to IFMSA Travel Assistance Fund Runner-Up – An update
Dear PEHF donors and friends,
Dear IFMSA Alumni Family,
We would like first of all to take this opportunity and wish you all the best of health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which, unfortunately, is still causing a global disease burden.
Furthermore, we would like to inform you all about some recent developments in PEHF and its scholarship programme:
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the travel limitations thereof, we were not able to provide any scholarships for GA attendees for the past year 2020. We also did not launch any call for new applications, for the same reason. However, as an exception, in 2021, a decision was taken by the Board of Directors to assign one (1) GA scholarship to the 1st runner-up of the IFMSA Travel Assistance Fund (TAF) list of applicants. The 500EUR scholarship was assigned to Mr. Yahya Korteh from GaMSA-Gambia to enable him to attend the AM21 in Panama, since the AM21 was only intended as a physical meeting for NMO-heads. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, which could not be attributed to his wrongdoing, Mr. Korteh was unable to issue a visa for his travel and, eventually, did not travel to Panama. On the other hand, he made serious expenses buying his flight tickets and following the necessary visa application process. Therefore, after careful consideration, we decided not to revoke the assigned scholarship, but to reimburse Mr. Korteh for his expenses, up to 500EUR (that is 125EUR for his registration fee + 42EUR for visa expenses + 333EUR for flight tickets loss). We would like to share the whole process with you all, dear friends and supporters of PEHF, for transparency reasons, as well as to keep everyone on the same page, in terms of continuity. We truly hope that the COVID-19 crisis will soon be over, that it will remain only “a bad dream” in our memory, and that really soon, we shall be able to restart the usual PEHF function, enabling more IFMSA students to attend an international IFMSA GA, gain knowledge and expertise, and transfer this accumulated wealth back to their local communities.
Kind regards,
The PEHF Board of Directors
ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CANCELLATION OF AM2020 PEHF GA SCHOLARSHIP
Dear IFMSA members, dear Alumni & PEHF supporters,
we have been informed by IFMSA officials that due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, the upcoming AM2020 GA is now officially cancelled.
Therefore, PEHF won’t be launching a call for applications for a GA scholarship at this moment.
Hopefully, we will be offering this opportunity later this year in November, for the MM2021.
Until then, keep healthy and safe and keep in touch with PEHF by subscribing to our newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/bs3ZpH, by following us on our Facebook page, and by regularly visiting our webpage: erikholstfund.com!
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The PEHF Board of Directors
ANNOUNCEMENT ON PEHF AM2020-GA SCHOLARSHIP
Dear PEHF friends and supporters, dear medical students,
Thank you for your patience during these times of crisis.
Due to the COVID pandemic, we are still unsure on whether the IFMSA will have a normal General Assembly-August Meeting.
Therefore, we at PEHF have not yet launched a new call for applications for AM2020 GA scholarship.
We are gathering data from NMOs, different stakeholders and the hosting NMO to see if this will be possible.
We will have a definitive answer from IFMSA by May 15th, 2020.
Till then, keep safe and healthy!
Season’s Greetings 2019-2020
We all at PEHF would like to extend to all of you our warmest greetings for the season and for those celebrating, Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2020 full of happiness, achievements and good health!
Let us also remind you that your generous donations are always welcome at our website PayPal platform! Just click “Donate” on www.erikholstfund.com !
Because we are ‘giving something back for all that IFMSA has given us’!
Message from Erik Holst Fund: We would appreciate your donation!
Dear IFMSA Alumni worldwide,
Dear esteemed colleagues,
Mr. Rajesh Sharma from Nepal has been awarded the latest IFMSA GA- AM2019 Erik Holst Scholarship to attend the GA in Taiwan last August! He joined the growing family of PEHF awardees that already counts 8 people:
PEHF Awardees Hall of Fame:
- Surendra Sapkota (Nepal) attended the AM15 in Ohrid, North Macedonia
- Haleema Munir (Pakistan) attended the MM16 in Malta
- Dana Shubat (Syria) attended the MM17 in Budva, Montenegro
- Patrick Rene Archimed Djabou (Burkina Faso) attended the AM17 in Arusha, Tanzania
- Phillip Chigiya (Zimbabwe) attended the MM18 in Egypt
- Javier Asfura (Honduras) attended the AM18 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Danny Sierra (Guatemala) attended the MM19 in Slovenia
- Rajesh Sharma (Nepal) attended AM19 in Taiwan
At http://eepurl.com/gEN9fz you may find our last Newsletter #17 with a narrative by Mr. Sharma reflecting on his receiving the PEHF award and his experience with IFMSA during the AM19 in Taiwan.
You may also look through some photographs of him during his participation.
Rajesh Sharma (second row, far right), PEHF AM2019 aeardee
Mr Sharma facilitates a session at the AM2019 pre-GA
Rajesh with the Nepalese flag at the AM2019
Rajesh Sharma (second from the left), latest PEHF AM2019 awardee
All this would never have happened, if you, individual Alumni, had not offered your generous donations to the PEHF!
We therefore call upon your kind assistance in making the Erik Holst Fund a sustainable project, created and run by IFMSA Alumni, by offering your kind donations using our PayPal platform. You may choose between an ONE TIME or a RECURRENT donation, although we would prefer the latter!
It’s so simple! For example, if every IFMSA Alumnus/a offered 1 Euro as a recurring monthly donation, we would end up with over 20.000 € to give away as GA scholarships and project grants each year!
CLICK and DONATE!
Please join our growing family of PEHF donors and put your name too under the All-time Donors List, also available on PEHF website!
All-time PEHF Donors List (in random order)
- Claire Procter
- Francisco Oviedo
- Richard Hamilton
- Kostas Roditis
- Vasu Sunkara
- Stefan Buttigieg
- Jacco Veldhuyzen
- Robert Steffen
- Thorsten Hornung
- Christine Chen
- Maria Alvarez
- Janina Deyng
- Xaviour & Jenny Walker
We all, the team behind the PEHF will continuously try and reach out to you, the IFMSA alumni family to join our efforts and make our goals a reality, benefiting future generations of IFMSA activists globally!
Kind regards,
Kostas Roditis, MD, MSc
Chair, Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors
www.erikholstfund.com
erikholstfund@gmail.com
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The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Board of Directors: Konstantinos Roditis (Chair), Yon Chong (Secretary), Stefan Buttigieg (External Relations Officer), and Nebojša Nikolić (IFMSA President).The Prof. Erik Holst Fund Alumni Partners: Ljiljana Lukic, Giacomo Cinelli, Ahmet Murt
Recent development: Revoking the scholarship for AM2019 due to awardee travel inability
Dear PEHF donors, friends, IFMSA Alumni and family,
We would like to inform you on a recent development regarding the change of the PEHF AM2019 GA scholarship recipient, due to last minute inability of the initial awardee, Mr. WUNDE from Cameroon to travel to the GA in Taiwan.
The PEHF Board decided to revoke the scholarship from Mr. WUNDE and instead award it to the 1st runner-up of the last applications evaluation process, that was:
Mr. Rajesh Sharma, from NMSS-Nepal!
Congrarulations goes to Rajesh, who recently attended the AM2019 and will be soon receiving the scholarship.
Stay tuned for more on Rajesh’s experience from the GA in Taiwan as well as more news by the PEHF in our upcoming newsletter issue!
The PEHF Board & its Alumni Partners
Professor Erik Holst Fund 