When you search in GlobalGrant there are a few things you should know. The search engine does exactly what you tell to it, and nothing more. It can't associate similar objects as a person can; you have to ask about everything to get a full answer.

      When you ask the database to search for scholarships for your studies, you should search in several different ways. Do this if you are going to search for study scholarships:

  • First search for scholarships with a connection to your current home district, where you grew up, and your birthplace. Search at county and municipal levels, and with your church congregation.

  • Secondly, search for scholarships with connections to your subject, and to scholarships that have no connections to any subjects at all.

  • Continue with scholarships with connections to all schools or areas that you could see yourself going to.

  • Finally, you can search for scholarships with connections to your student union or student club, or to your union, church, athletics association, etc.

      If you search for contributions to the financially needy, or to the sick or handicapped, do this:

  • First search for subsidies with connections to your current home district; search at county and municipal levels, and with your church congregation.

  • Search for subsidies with connections to your illness or to your hospital and to the county council that you belong to.

  • Finally, you can search for subsidies that have connections to your union.

      Every search will result in a number of hits. Read through the list of hits, and mark in the little squares of those you would like to save. After each search attempt you save the marked scholarships be pressing the printer symbol in the bottom of the search page. In that way you build a personal list of scholarships in one separate window, and you can then print this window out, or mail it forward.

      The easiest way to apply is to just read through the top lists that suit you. The bad part of doing this is that you miss a lot of nice scholarships. The next easiest would be to use the "guided searching", and the hardest is to you the "free text" searching, as this is mainly for advanced users who are used to searching for things in databases. If you combine all three methods, you will receive the best result.

      The search engine in not case-sensitive (it can tell the difference from small and upper case letter's), it also does not matter if you write Stockholm, STOCKHOLM, or stockholm. Except for the words that are visible in the text, every scholarship is also classified with a number of invisible classification words. This helps you to find the scholarships that are hiding behind poorly worded or non-completed word formations.

 

 Sign  Action  Example  Explanation
 Space  OR  london paris Gives all scholarships that contain any of the words
 *  Wildcard  research* All scholarships that contain any of the variations of the word research (researching, researcher, reserchers etc)
 +  AND  london +medicin All scholarships that contain the word London and any  variation of the word medicine
 -  NOT  London  -university All scholarships that contain the word London but not the word university
 "sökord"  "  "University of New York"  Scholarships that contain exactly that phrase
 ( )  ( )   (usa uk  denmark) 
 +( technical*  engineer*)		  All scholarships that contain one or more of the words USA, UK or Denmark and any variations of the words technical or engineer