Objective

This programme offers former scholarship holders the opportunity to carry out research and working projects in Germany and to maintain contacts as part of DAAD's global alumni network. The scholarships are funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are former

• holder of DAAD research grants or study scholarships and have been funded for more than six months by the Federal Foreign Office or in a programme co-financed with Federal Foreign Office funds.
• East German scholarship holder who studied for at least one year in Germany.

Duration of the funding

• Funding is provided for one to three months. Please indicate in your application how long you wish to receive funding.
• The grant is non-renewable.
• Please note in your time planning that the funded stays should be completed by January 2025 at the latest.

Value

• Monthly payments of 2,000 euros for assistant teachers, assistant professors and lecturers
  2,150 euros for professors.
• Travel allowance, unless these expenses are covered by the home country or another source of funding.
• Please note: Health insurance coverage is mandatory in Germany. If you do not have a corresponding home health insurance, you will be insured by the DAAD. The costs will be deducted from the scholarship payment.

Application documents

Documents to be uploaded to the DAAD portal

• Online application form
• Full curriculum vitae in tabular form (max. 3 pages)
• If necessary, list of your published academic publications
• Comprehensive statement about research or working project (max. 10 pages), to be uploaded in the portal under ‘research project’
• Time schedule and itinerary (host institutions / cooperation partners) of planned research or working visit (to be uploaded in the portal under ‘time schedule’)
• Confirmation from the academic host in Germany that must refer to your project and guarantee that the host institute in Germany will provide you with a workplace.

NOTE: The application procedure occurs online through the DAAD portal.
Please note that the access to the application portal only appears while the current application period is running.

Application deadline

10.10.2023
Selection decision will be taken in February 2024, start of the funding usually in May 2024.

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Contacts

• Interested students can contact jennifer.spence@utp. ac.pa cc [email protected] 
• Phone: 560-3201
• Attention in person at the International Relations Office from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 4 pm.
• Find us on social networks as @dri_utp