The Immerse Education Essay Competition is free for students worldwide who will be aged 13–18 when their scholarship programme begins. Entrants write a 450–550-word academic essay on a listed subject question or an open question, excluding references, titles and captions, and submit one entry through the competition form. Registering interest provides guidance and updates rather than submitting an entry.
The official 2027 competition page marks submissions closed and gives this timeline: opening August 3, 2026; submission cutoff October 25, 2026; results November 9, 2026; prize redemption November 25, 2026. Scholarships apply to the subsequent summer's experiences. No later application window or exact cutoff time/timezone has been verified, so the older generic September/January schedule is not treated as a future deadline.
Full and partial course scholarships are available, with partial scholarships advertised up to 75%. The page's prize counts differ: its headline says up to ten full scholarships across all four Immerse competitions, while its essay overview says ten winners will receive full scholarships. No fixed number of full essay scholarships is asserted here. Course scholarships should not be read as guaranteed coverage of every travel or personal expense.
Source checked November 4, 2026: official competition page and FAQs. The dated timeline supports the cycle above even though one FAQ still mentions a generic September/January cadence. The page's detailed specification says 500 words with 10% leeway; an FAQ's isolated reference to characters is inconsistent with its own 450–550-word explanation.