DAAD Scholarship Application Form 2024/2025 – apply here

Register for DAAD Scholarship Application Form 2024/2025 via online. We are delighted to inform you about the ongoing DAAD Development Related Scholarship Application Form 2024/2025. Register here.

With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries. Well-trained local experts, who are networked with international partners, play an important part in the sustainable development of their countries. They are the best guarantee for a better future with less poverty, more education and health for all. The scholarships offer foreign graduates from development and newly industrialised countries from all disciplines and with at least two years’ professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master’s degree at a state or state-recognised German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/PhD) in Germany.

Requirements

Graduates with at least two years’ professional experience from the following countries: list of eligible countries

The Typical Scholarship Holder
works either for a public authority or a state or private company in a developing country and, as such, is engaged in the planning and execution of directives and projects with emphasis on development policies having a bearing on technological, economic or social areas.
holds a Bachelor’s degree (normally four years) in a related subject.
has completed an academic degree with far above average results (upper third) and at least two years of related professional experience after the first degree (bachelor) at the time of application.
His/her academic degrees should normally not be more than six years old.
Applicants who have been resident in Germany for longer than 15 months at the application deadline cannot be considered

Duration

12 to 42 months (dependent on study programme)

Required Documents for a DAAD scholarship application (in the following order)

Completed and signed checklist
DAAD application form “Application for a research/study scholarship”
A curriculum vitae in reverse chronological order without any unexplained gaps (europass cv)
including exact information about your studies and practical experience
One letter of motivation with detailed reference to academic, professional, and personal
reasons for applying to the programme.
Letter of recommendation from your current employer. The letter must include an official
letterhead, a signature, and an official stamp and must be of current date
Certificate(s) of employment from the employer(s) showing at least two years of relevant work
experience after the bachelorʼs degree at the time of application. The certificate of employment
from the current employer should, if possible, include a guarantee of re-employment after
returning to the home country.
Recent proof of language skills:
‒ English – Proof of adequate language skills, according to the regulations of the respective courses.
‒ German – Proof only required for study courses taught in German
Copies of higher education degree certificates including a certified translation if the original
is not in German or English.
Copy of the complete transcript of records including an explanation of the grading system