Undergraduate Courses Scholarships - IED Istituto Europeo di Design

If you are choosing or rethinking your educational journey, here’s your chance to get started: for the 2026/2027 academic year, IED, Accademia di Como and Kunsthal offer 140 partial Scholarships covering up to €6,000 in tuition fees for Undergraduate and Foundation programs in Italy and Spain.

How to participate:

1. Read the regulations: find out which courses are included in the contest, discover the participation requirements, and check the deadlines.
2. Develop your creative work: choose whether to present a personal portfolio or develop an original project. Show us your talent, your vision, and what makes you unique.
3. Send all the required materials by 5th May.

Everyone can think big, but good designers must also be able to do the opposite: look at the details, discover what no one else usually notices. That's where the best ideas come from, and that's where it all begins.

This is just the beginning of a much bigger journey!

Are you ready? Register now and kickstart your career in the creative field.

ABOUT US

For more than fifty years, the Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, fashion, visual communication and management. Today, the IED is a constantly expanding international network that issues first-level academic diplomas and organises three-year courses, Masters courses, continuous professional development and advanced training courses.

The most significant milestones in the Group’s history include the foundation of the IED campuses in Milan (1966), Rome (1973), Turin (1989), Madrid (1994), Barcelona (2002), São Paulo (2005), Venice (2007), Florence (2008) and Cagliari (2009). In 2012, the Aldo Galli Academy in Como also joined the IED Group and as of 2013 courses have commenced in Rio de Janeiro, the second IED school in Brazil.

Since 1966, the IED has developed innovative and diversified teaching methodologies, focused on synergies between technology and experimentation, creativity, strategies and integrated communication, market issues and a new form of professionalism. Thus does the Istituto Europeo di Design offer young professionals working in the fields of Fashion, Design and Communication the knowledge and the effective tools they need to cater for the constantly developing requirements of the working world.

The nexus between knowledge and knowhow is the indispensable starting point for developing the cultural, creative and critical skills and competencies that are the ultimate goal of education at the IED.

Partnerships with leading enterprises are a fundamental factor in the IED’s educational strategy, featuring both at every stage throughout the didactic process and in the special events held to mark the end of every academic year. As a result of the IED’s constant, active relationship with the business world, more than 200 firms contribute in various ways every year to its student training programmes.

The faculty comprises experts and professionals with the ability to teach applied skills and a constant stream of innovation. Each individual course is run in direct contact with and supported by companies operating in the fields in question.

As a school with an international vocation, the Istituto Europeo di Design welcomes students with different nationalities and cultures to all its campuses. Some 2,000 foreign students – primarily from the Far East, Central and South America and Europe – enrol in its courses every year. To date, the IED has trained students from about 100 different countries.