The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

This sounds like taking a summer off from the SMART program to do your own research with your advisor, and I really doubt they’d let you do that. There are official international internships sanctioned by SMART every year, you’d have to apply to one of those.

Anyone have any experience with setting up, requesting, and getting an international internship approved? My PhD advisor here in the US was awarded a Fullbright scholarship, and I think it'd be a cool idea to go work with her during Summer '26. For context, I've already completed one SMART internship (+ two others before SMART) with my SF.

Thought I would ask on here for others' experience before bugging anyone from SMART or my SF. Are we limited to Five Eyes countries? NATO-only? Are we responsible for organizing and connecting the international facility with SMART and/or my SF? Not sure if it will actually happen, but would love to hear from others that have done one of these things