The Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs awards annually a number of scholarships for BA-studies in Icelandic as a second language at the University of Iceland. The scholarship program is administrated by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

Application deadline is December 1st each year.

Further information and application form.

Annually, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships. The Snorri Sturluson Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars (not to university students) in the field of humanities, from outside Iceland, to enable them to stay in Iceland for a period of at least three months, in order to improve their knowledge of the Icelandic language, culture and society.

There is a special application form to be used when applying for the Fellowships. Applicants should submit a brief but thorough account of the purpose of their stay in Iceland, specifying period of stay, as well as details of education and publications.

Application deadline is 1st December each year.

The application form is available here.

For further information, please contact Branislav Bédi via e-mail: branislav.bedi@arnastofnun.is.

The Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2026 will be held June 15-25 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The application deadline is January 15th.

The summer school offers training in palaeography, codicology and transcription of Scandinavian manuscripts as well as editorial technique and textual criticism. The Summer School is a collaboration between the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the University of Iceland, the University of Copenhagen and the National and University Library of Iceland.

For further information, see the Summer School‘s page.

The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Iceland, organizes every year an International Summer Course in Modern Icelandic and Icelandic Culture. The course is to be held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. Classes take place at the University Campus at Suðurgata.

The application deadline is 15 February.

For further details, see the summer school's information page in Icelandic or in English.