LOTE students in year 9, 10 or 11 during 2010 are now eligible to apply for WEP's $3000 scholarship to Italy! Fill out our enquiry form to request a FREE scholarship application pack sent to you in the mail.

Applicants for WEP Australia's scholarship award to Italy must submit the following:

1. WEP application form (download from website). At this stage medical pages and immunisation records do not need to be submitted.
2. Parental/guardianship and student declaration form (contact WEP for scholarship application).
3. 150 words, in English, about what you imagine will be most difficult (other than missing your friends and family and the inevitable communication difficulties) about living overseas.
4. 150 words in English that explain why you are studying your current LOTE.
5. 100 words in the language you are currently studying (Italian) that answers the question, “Why I want to win a WEP student exchange scholarship to Italy.”

The above components must be submitted to:
“Scholarship Awards” WEP Australia,
PO Box 260,
Black Rock VIC 3193
by 28 May 2010.

A shortlist of three applicants will be required to be available for a phone interview in June 2010. The interview will be conducted in English, with three short questions in Italian. Applicants will be briefed on the content of this conversation closer to the date.

The winner will be announced on 9 JULY 2010.

All short listed applicants will receive a $500 discount towards a semester or year program to Italy, commencing in January 2011.

At the end of her program, scholarship recipient Eliza described to WEP how she felt when she first applied:

Before leaving Australia, I admit, I was worried sick. I asked myself more than once, “What am I doing leaving my family, friends, and life as I know it to go somewhere practically unknown and to live with people I’d never even met”. Despite these worries, 2 January 2009 I threw myself into the deep end and walked through those big yellow departure gates at Melbourne Airport. This is, decidedly, the best choice I have ever made!