“Professional scholarship” is a national social program that addresses all students attending vocational education and consists of monthly financial support.

Children of foreigners who are beneficiaries of a form of protection in Romania, or foreigners, respectively citizens of the European Union/European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation with the right of residence in Romania, who attend vocational education, also benefit from the “Professional scholarship”.

Students in vocational education cannot simultaneously benefit from both the “Professional scholarship” and the financial support granted to students under the national social protection program “High school money”.

A national commission for monitoring the granting of the “Professional scholarship” is established at the level of the Ministry of Education.