The German Chancellor Fellowship for Tomorrow's Leaders

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is searching for the leaders of tomorrow – from Brazil, China, India, Russia, and the USA. The German Chancellor Fellowship offers you an opportunity to take the next career step in Germany – irrespective of your field of work.

ESMT’s MBA Scholarship

ESMT’s MBA scholarship program helps make your goal of an international business career a reality. Supported by its 25 corporate founders, ESMT offers a number of partial-tuition scholarships for MBA applicants. Every year, there are also a limited number of prestigious full-tuition scholarships available.

Kofi Annan Business School Foundation Fellowship

The Kofi Annan Business School Foundation provides fellowships for talented and motivated students from developing countries that allow them to obtain a university degree in Europe at one of the academic partners of the Kofi Annan Business School Foundation. Partner schools are ESMT, HHL Leipzig (Germany), University of Utrecht (Netherlands), NOVA SBE (Portugal), Koc University (Turkey) and Business School Lausanne (Switzerland).

Part-time MBA - Global Diversity Scholarship at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

The HHL Global Diversity Scholarship focuses on prospective students with an international background, who bring their leadership potential and international experiences to HHL

Heinrich Boll Scholarships in Germany for International Students

The scholarship department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation grants scholarships to undergraduates, graduates, and doctoral students from inside and outside Germany.

International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science

The International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS) is a graduate program jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), and the Computer Science Department at Saarland University. 

COFUND Fellowship Programme of Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt for Experienced Researchers - Academic Year 2018/19

The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt) at the University of Erfurt is a highly ranked international research centre. It is unique in its organizational structure by combining the functions of an institute for advanced study and a graduate school. Its ‘Weberian’ research programme combines historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives with an interest in normative issues in the social sciences. It has a focus on contemporary social challenges, especially those arising in connection with (religious) plurality, cultural diversity and social processes of acceleration and growth. The core disciplines at the Max Weber Kolleg are sociology, economics, religious studies, law, philosophy, history and theology. Within its fellowship programme “MWK-FELLOWS" the Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt offers (up to) 10 Fellowships for Experienced Researchers.

Heinz Neumüller Foundation Doctoral Scholarship for International Students in Germany, 2018

Heinz Neumüller Stiftung annually supports from the fields of engineering, law, computer, economic, and natural sciences such doctoral candidates at the University of Oldenburg "who have distinguished themselves during their studies through ability, initiative and responsibility". 

Scholarships for International Doctoral Candidates at the University of Cologne in 2017

The International Office provides two study completion grants for international doctoral candidates starting from November/December 2017.

The grants are financed by the DAAD with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office (STIBET-Doktoranden-Programm).

DAAD Research Grants for Foreign Doctoral Students in Germany, 2018-2019

DAAD research grants provide young foreign academics and scientists with an opportunity to carry out research and continue their education in Germany. There are funding programmes for various qualification phases and stages in a career. The grants also promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues. 

The aim of this grant programme is to support doctoral projects in Germany.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Scholarship Programme

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Scholarship Programme aims to address social disadvantages by supporting students who actively work for freedom, justice and social cohesion in their commitment to social democracy, or will do so in future.

DAAD University Winter Courses in Germany for Foreign Students and Graduatees

This study programme is geared towards students and graduates from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Namibia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uruguay and aims to help them improve their knowledge of German (general language, special language) and their cultural knowledge of the country.

Biozentrum Basel International PhD Fellowship Program in Switzerland, 2017

The Biozentrum encourages talented, ambitious and highly motivated young scientists to apply to the Biozentrum Basel International PhD Program. This program offers prestigious PhD fellowships that are awarded on a competitive basis, provide direct entry into the Biozentrum PhD program and offer the fellows  a unique rotation-based selection of a research group of their own choice and a number of other incentives.

Giessen University PhD Scholarships for International Students in Germany, 2017-2018

Giessen University’s International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), co-funded by the German federal government’s Excellence Initiative, offers a three-year, structured PhD-programme in the study of culture. With its excellent research environment, a doctoral programme which is tailored to the needs of PhD students and the intensive personal support it provides, the Graduate Centre offers doctoral researchers optimum conditions for their PhD-projects and custom-made preparation for the time thereafter, both with regard to academic and non-academic careers.

The GCSC invites applications for one of the up to 13 PhD scholarships available.

The Baden-Württemberg Scholarship

The Baden-Württemberg Scholarship for university students is offered each year to the universities in Baden-Württemberg. The programme’s purpose is to support international exchange between highly qualified German and foreign students.

Furthermore, the scholarship programme increases the competitiveness of Baden-Württemberg’s universities for the recruitment of the best internationally mobile students and postgraduates.

The programme addresses all students who are matriculated at one of Baden-Württemberg’s universities and who would like to expand their horizons through a study abroad.  The programme additionally applies to foreign students who would like to study abroad in Baden-Württemberg.

Potential Candidates

In order to be able to apply to the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship, students must be either Master, Diplom or Staatsexamen students enrolled at the University of Mannheim who aim to study abroad in a non-European country (incl. Russia) in the fall semester and/or in the spring semester.

Applications from Freemovers are not admitted.

The University of Mannheim can only support European study abroad programmes through the Erasmus Programme.

Application

Please take note of the varying application deadlines:

March, 31st 2016: Application deadline for students accepted to a study abroad programme in a non-European country beginning in the Fall Semester of 2016.

October, 15th 2016: Application deadline for students accepted to a study abroad programme in a non-European country beginning in the Spring Semester of 2017.

For further details and application visit the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship page.

UNFCCC’s Internship Programme

The objective of the internship programme is to provide a framework through which postgraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds may be assigned to the UNFCCC secretariat to enhance their educational experience through practical work assignments. It allows selected candidates to gain insight into the work of the United Nations and provides assistance and training in various professional fields.

The Einstein Fellowship 2017

The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research.

The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches – following the example set by Albert Einstein.

Hamburg University Academic Scholarships for Master Students

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences awards scholarships to academically strong foreign students studying in Master degree programmes. 

GIGA Doctoral Fellowship Programme - 2016

The GIGA Doctoral Programme invites applications from prospective doctoral students to join the programme on 1 October 2016. We strongly welcome international applications.

The application deadline is on 1 March 2016.

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Academic scholarships for Master Students

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences awards scholarships to academically strong foreign students studying in Master degree programmes*.