Digging and Me
Scholarships for digging in Europe
The following scholarships are restricted to excavations in Europe. You may also wish to search the Global Scholarship page as these scholarships are less restrictive as to which continent you can work on.
Please note that when a category is stated "unrestricted" this means that anyone can apply, however, "unspecified" means that it wasn't stated if there was or was not a nationality requirement. When membership is required to apply for the scholarship this can often be done online.
When no year is given for the deadline this means that this is an annual deadline.
Achill Archaeological Field School Scholarship (click here) may not be offered this year as the website has changed and no longer lists it. Other, external scholarships are now listed (click here)
Value: $2000
Deadline: 30 April 2018
Excavation(s): Achill Archaeological Field School, Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland
Nationality: Unrestricted
CAMWS Excavation/Fieldwork Award (click here)
Value: $2000
Deadline: 30 January
Excavation(s): Greco-Roman summer excavation program or field school
Nationality of applicant: unspecified but must be a member of CAMWS
Classical Association of New England’s Alison Barker Travel Scholarship (click here)
Value: $750
Deadline: 1 December
Excavation(s): Classical sites
Nationality of applicant: unspecified (applicants teacher should be a member of CANE)
Connie Downing Scholarship for the Greenland-Arctic Vikings Program (click here)
Value: $3000
Deadline: 30 January 2019
Excavation(s): Greenland-Arctic Vikings Field School (http://ifrglobal.org/program/greenland-arctic-vikings/ )
Nationality of applicant: unrestricted
EL Will Travel Grant (click here) no longer listed
Value: $2500
Deadline: 1 February
Excavation(s): classical excavations
Nationality: Unrestricted
Fellowship Program for Fieldwork through the Etruscan Foundation (click here)
Value: $2000
Deadline: 22 February 2019
Excavation(s): Etruscan and indigenous sites of non-Greek Italy from the Neolithic through the 1st Century BCE.
Nationality of applicant: unrestricted (must be a member of the Etruscan Foundation)
Ireland-Birr Field School Scholarship (click here)
Value: $1000
Deadline: TBA (6 April 2018)
Excavation: Ireland-Birr Field school (http://ifrglobal.org/program/ireland-birr/ )
Nationality of applicant: unrestricted
Spain-Cova Gran Field School Scholarship (click here) no longer listed
Value: $3000
Deadline: 16 March 2018
Excavation(s): Spain-Cova Gran Field School (http://ifrglobal.org/program/spain-cova-gran/ )
Nationality of applicant: unrestricted
UK-Ribchester Field School Scholarship (click here)
Value: $2300
Deadline: 22 March 2019
Excavation(s): UK-Ribchester Field School (http://ifrglobal.org/program/portugal-vale-boi/ )
Nationality of applicant: unrestricted