Our editorial standards

Every page on European Funding Guide is meant to help someone decide how to pay for their studies. This page says what has to be true of a page before we publish it, and what we do when a page stops meeting that bar. It is the standard our editorial team is held to, and it is the standard you can hold us to.

Scholarship profiles

A scholarship profile describes one funding programme. Before it is published:

• Every fact is checked against the awarding body’s own published materials. Never against another aggregator.
• The profile links to the official programme page, so everything we say about a programme can be checked against the awarding body itself.
• Where the programme defines them, the profile states the funding amount, the application deadline, who is eligible and the awarding institution. These are visible on the page, not hidden in a database. Plenty of real programmes set no fixed amount and no fixed deadline. Where that is the case we leave the field out rather than invent a figure.
• The profile explains, in its own words, what the programme offers and how to apply. A name and a link is not a profile.
• The page carries the date its facts were last checked, and that date is shown to you.

Profiles are re-checked on a rolling schedule at least once every 12 months. When a programme changes its terms, we correct the profile. When it ends, we say so or remove the page.

Guides

Our guides cover scholarships, public funding programmes, student finance and ways to earn alongside your studies. Before a guide is published:

• It carries a named author with a real profile page, who researched and reviewed what appears under their name.
• Where the topic calls for first-hand evidence, we produce it ourselves: our own account, our own test, our own screenshots.
• Where we compare providers or options, the guide explains how we tested, what we did, over what period, and what the outcome was.
• The page carries a visible last-updated date.

Before anything is published

No page becomes public without editorial review and sign-off by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Mira Maier, or a reviewer she has appointed. Sign-offs are recorded.

Telling us we got something wrong

If a figure, a deadline or a programme rule on this site is out of date or wrong, please write to us at feedback@european-funding-guide.eu. Corrections are made on the page itself, and the last-checked date moves with them.

Last updated: 1 September 2026.