Support through scholarships for a) students residing in the canton of Aargau, b) students residing in the rest of Switzerland, c) students who are native and resident in southern Germany; scholarships can be awarded for law, economics, natural sciences, medicine or engineering studies, provided that the applicants have been enrolled at a university in Switzerland for at least two semesters and offer the guarantee that they will promote the science of their field of study. A strict standard is to be applied.