4. Eligibility for social scholarships is granted to students studying under state-funded places in full-time or dual forms of education, who are not on academic leave, and who belong to the following categories:
Orphans and children deprived of parental care, as well as persons from their number, in case of continuing education up to the age of 23 or until completion of educational institutions in accordance with Article 54 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education,” Article 62 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education,” and Article 8 of the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Organizational and Legal Conditions for the Social Protection of Orphans and Children Deprived of Parental Care”;
Persons who, during their studies, aged 18 to 23, have lost their parents (whose parents died / were declared dead, perished, or went missing) in accordance with Article 8 of the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Organizational and Legal Conditions for the Social Protection of Orphans and Children Deprived of Parental Care”;
Persons entitled to receive a social scholarship under Articles 20–22 and 30 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Status and Social Protection of Citizens Affected by the Chornobyl Disaster”;
Miners with at least three years of underground work experience, in accordance with Article 5 of the Law of Ukraine “On Increasing the Prestige of Mining Work”;
Persons who became students (cadets) within three years after completing basic and/or full secondary education, whose parents are miners with at least 15 years of underground work experience or who died as a result of an industrial accident or were recognized as having a disability of group I or II, in accordance with Article 5 of the Law of Ukraine “On Increasing the Prestige of Mining Work”;
Persons recognized as affected participants of the Revolution of Dignity, combatants under the Law of Ukraine “On the Status of War Veterans and Guarantees of Their Social Protection,” and their children (until the children complete their education, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age) in accordance with Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education” and Article 44 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”;
Persons who were deprived of personal freedom due to armed aggression against Ukraine, after their release; children of persons deprived of personal freedom due to armed aggression against Ukraine, as well as children of persons who were deprived of personal freedom due to armed aggression against Ukraine and who died (until such children complete education in the relevant educational institution, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age), in accordance with Article 13 of the Law of Ukraine “On Social and Legal Protection of Persons Deprived of Personal Freedom Due to Armed Aggression Against Ukraine and Their Family Members”;
Children whose one parent died during mass civil protest actions or died as a result of injury, concussion, or disability sustained during mass civil protest actions (until completion of education in such an institution, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age), in accordance with Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education” and Article 44 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”;
Children registered as internally displaced persons (until completion of education in an educational institution, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age), in accordance with Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education” and Article 44 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education,” specifically:
- who moved from territories for which no end date of hostilities (cessation of hostilities) or temporary occupation has been determined, included in the list of territories where hostilities are being (or were) conducted or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, approved by the Ministry of Development;
- whose housing was destroyed or damaged (to a degree unsuitable for living) as a result of hostilities, terrorist acts, or sabotage caused by armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, information about which is entered into the State Register of Property Damaged and Destroyed as a Result of Hostilities, Terrorist Acts, or Sabotage caused by Armed Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine (hereinafter – the Register of Damaged and Destroyed Property).
At the same time, the belonging of a settlement to the relevant territorial community included in the list of territories where hostilities are being (or were) conducted or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, approved by the Ministry of Development, is determined according to the administrative centers and territories of the territorial communities of the relevant regions defined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
Children with disabilities and persons with disabilities of groups I–III;
Students (cadets) from families receiving assistance under the Law of Ukraine “On State Social Assistance to Low-Income Families”;
Persons with disabilities due to the war in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Status of War Veterans and Guarantees of Their Social Protection” and their children (until children complete education in such an institution, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age), in accordance with Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education” and Article 44 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”;
Children of deceased, missing, or killed participants of the Revolution of Dignity, combatants, persons with disabilities due to the war, or Defenders of Ukraine (until children complete education in such an institution, but no longer than until they reach 23 years of age), in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Status of War Veterans and Guarantees of Their Social Protection,” Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Pre-Higher Education,” and Article 44 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education.”