Finnish Game Jam organization is launching a scholarship program to promote Finnish jamming scene and to provide further learning opportunities for the jammers of Finnish jamming community. The first scholarship in line is supporting one jammer’s participation to the Train Jam 2016 (United States).

Finnish Game Jam organization is awarding a ticket to the legendary Train Jam (http://trainjam.com/) and a 300 Eur travel aid to a prominent jammer willing to represent Finnish game jamming scene in the United States and bringing back the lessons learned to the community. The candidate for the scholarship is selected based on the applications sent prior to Sunday 21st February 2016 16:00 (GMT +2). A great applicant has participated to at least one FGJ game jam between 2010-2016 and has a broad experience on game jams in Finland (and/or elsewhere) as well as an interesting portfolio of game jam projects.

Train Jam is a great opportunity to network with international game jam community and to spend an amazing trip from Chicago to San Francisco right before GDC (http://gdconf.com) week. Train Jam 2016 is the 3rd organized annual event of 52h game jam taking place in a moving train. The jam is organized by Adriel Wallick, independent from Finnish Game Jam organization. Finnish Game Jam Scholarship Program is founded to improve the mobility of the Finnish jammers and further enhance the international collaboration of the global jamming scene.

See all the details and apply for the scholarship from here.