Published: 01-11-2023 09:12 | Updated: 01-11-2023 13:39

Ceremony for the 2023 KI Global Master's Scholarship holders

This year's global master students 2023 together with KI's President. Photo: Amanda Nelzén

Twelve international master students from ten countries received Karolinska Institutet's Global Scholarship during a ceremony in Aula Medica.

KI President Annika Östman Wernerson presented the scholarships.

Adrita Kaiser, master's student in global health, receives the scholarship from KI's President. Photo: Amanda Nelzén

Awarding of scholarships and speech by KI´s president

Present in the Orangery was KI's President Annika Östman Wernerson who handed out the scholarships. In her speech, she emphasised "KI is Us" and the importance of community - not least when you arrive as a new student in a completely new country. She also talked about the importance of students to KI's internationalisation and encouraged them to: "Embrace change, seek knowledge and never stop learning".

Madahi Mejia, Master's student in Global Health and President of KI. Photo: Emma Karlsson

After the awarding of the scholarships, a Nobel lecture was held by Abdel El Manira, member of the Nobel Committee, who spoke about this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine and their discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The ceremony ended with a joint dinner in Aula Medica.

"We were impressed by the speeches made by the president and member of the Nobel Committee. And after getting to know the other awardees, members of my faculty, and leadership better, I feel even more proud to have received the scholarship", says Emile Pernet, master's student in biomedicine from the UK.

Meet this year's Master's scholarship holders

Facts about the scholarship

5855 students applied to KI's Global Masters Programme 2023.
361 were admitted, of which 12 received the master's scholarship.
The scholarships cover tuition and semester fees and are awarded by the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR).