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Where should I spend my scholarship money?

Hello academics,

I'm going to have an interview for a scholarship, and I believe one of the things I will be asked is "why should we give you this scholarship and how are you going to spend the money?". I am posting this since I'm new when it comes to research, and I don't really know what I should answer: should I say I will use it for expenses such as trips for interviews, to develop a project in the future related to my thesis, to publish articles on journals, or anything else?

Some useful information:

1. It's a considerable amount of money (10k USD);
2. The scholarship is for the development of a Master's degree thesis;
3. My thesis is related to health and public policy;
4. I will use national and european databases for my thesis, but I will also need to interview some national personalities related to the field.

Thank you all in advance.

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EDIT: added the scholarship's budget.
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> It's a considerable amount of money; 

It's easier to give an answer to your questions if you are more specific about this. As far as I've experienced, personal scholarship/fellowships which don't have an explicit budget section as part of their application rarely if ever ask questions about what you'll do with the money in an interview - they expect you to spend it on your personal (and perhaps some professional) expenses. If they do ask you, your proposed response sounds fine.