How to apply online for DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Scholarship Programme 2024/2025

DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Scholarship Master’s Programme 2024/2025 for Public Policy and Good Governance Application Form is out – register online before deadline.

Introduction

The DAAD Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (known as Public Policy and Good Governance) supports future leaders from developing countries (see list of countries), who want to promote democracy and social justice in their home countries. The programme, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, offers the chance to acquire a Master’s degree in Master programmes of particular relevance for the social, political and economic development in the students’ countries of origin. In the light of the principles of Good Governance, highly qualified graduates with a first academic degree are being educated in political science, law, economics and administration and prepared for future leading positions in their home countries.

About the Programme

offers future leaders master’s courses in disciplines that are of special
relevance for social, political, and economic development
prepares students in a practice-oriented course for responsible
positions in or for their home regions and contributes to establishing
economic and social institutions that are democratically oriented and
designed to overcome social inequalities

Graduates from developing and emerging countries
(bachelor or equivalent)

with a well-qualified first university degree and above-average
grades (upper third) in Social and Political Sciences, Law, Economics,
Public Policy and Administration
willing to actively contribute to the social, political and economic
development of their home countries/regions
who have already gained practical experience relevant for the
programme (professional experience, internships, political/social
commitment)

Academic education in one of the master’s courses, listed below and selected
by the DAAD, will take place from September/October 2025. The courses have
an international focus and are mainly offered in English.
Throughout their studies, all scholarship holders of the Helmut-SchmidtProgramme benefit from accompanying support services provided by the
programme coordinators at the respective study locations.
Scholarship holders benefit from events and seminars organised specifically
for them, as well as close exchange with other international scholarship
holders.