The 2013 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has launched and is inviting applications from schools of architecture around the world. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student by a panel of judges which includes Lord Foster and the President of the RIBA.

Students from all RIBA or CAA validated degree programmes from Schools of Architecture worldwide are invited to apply for this £6,000 scholarship, which funds international research on topics and in locations of the student’s choosing. The topic of the research should however, relate to the survival of our cities and towns and fall under one of the following themes:

• learning from the past to inform the future

• the future of society

• density of settlements

• sustainability

• use of resources

• quality of urban life

• transport

The deadline for applications is:

Friday 26th April.

Eligible students:

• must be enrolled in a School of Architecture with RIBA or CAA validated degree programmes or from a specially invited school or architecture centre AND

• must have successfully completed at least the first year of a Part 1 degree.

Each school only can submit one application produced by one student.

For information on how to enter and elegibilty visit the RIBA website