Not necessarily. If a student is a recipient of financial assistance under the FASP at the time he/she applies or is nominated for an outbound exchange activity, he/she is eligible for assistance under the M-SSE and the M-SSEBR.
For students who have not received and are not applying for financial assistance under the FASP at the time they apply or are nominated for an outbound exchange activity, they are not eligible for assistance under the M-SSE or the M-SSEBR. In case where students have not received financial assistance under the FASP before but are applying for such financial assistance at the time they apply or are nominated for an outbound exchange activity under the M-SSE or the M-SSEBR, participating institutions may exercise their discretion on whether to enroll the concerned students in the exchange activity. However, if the FASP applications of the students fail, the cost of the exchange activity cannot be covered by the M-SSE or the M-SSEBR. It will have to be borne by the institutions/students/other funding sources.
Under normal circumstances, application results of the FASP will be released at the commencement of an academic year (around August/September) for continuing students in an institution and at the end of the Autumn Term of an academic year (around December/January) for new students of an institution.