Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Scholarship Program for Worldwide College students (Grasp/PhD) 2023-24, Germany

Deadline for functions: 15 July 2023

Our Scholarship Program for Worldwide College students is geared toward worldwide college students and graduates who’ve acquired a college diploma and who intend to finish postgraduate or grasp research, doctoral research or a analysis keep of not less than 4 semesters at a college in Germany.

The rules

• have a college diploma, as we don’t present help for bachelor research,
• show above common educational efficiency,
• have good data of the German language (B2-level),
• be actively engaged in voluntary work,
• plan to review a minimal of 4 semesters at a college in Germany,
• possess a broad basic schooling and distinct curiosity in political points,
• have a constructive perspective in the direction of democracy and human rights,
• be open to develop their private factors of view and apply tolerance,
• be extremely motivated and capable of persuade us of their objectives in life.

Additional specs

• College students in Drugs or Pharmacy can solely apply after having accomplished their intermediate examination in Germany or when having achieved a comparable stage of their research.
• Human or dental medication specialist coaching or put up graduate analysis stays in Germany can’t be supported.
• Individuals having already achieved a doctorate usually are not eligible for a scholarship.

Advantages of our scholarship program

Our scholarship program consists of monetary help, private steering, a large seminar program and entry to the worldwide KAS-network. After the profitable completion of research, we stay in touch with our alumni and contain them in our nationwide and worldwide actions.  

Monetary help

The period and stage of funding varies for various kinds of research. Graduates (grasp or postgraduate college students) obtain a month-to-month scholarship of € 861. The usual funding interval is 2 years. After having obtained unconditional admission to doctoral research at a German college, PhD-students obtain a month-to-month scholarship of € 1.200. The usual funding interval for PhD students is three years. We additionally fund analysis stays in Germany for the minimal of three semesters.

Beside the month-to-month stipend, we provide a number of subsidies for our students. Upon request, we subsidize well being care insurance coverage as much as the quantity of € 120 monthly. We additionally provide a household allowance of € 276 offered that you simply and your partner stay collectively in a single place in Germany for not less than three months and that his/her earnings doesn’t exceed the quantity of € 450 monthly. Moreover, we grant kids’s allowance of € 194 monthly for youngsters dwelling with you in Germany. Conditions are the submission of an official German translation of the kid’s start certificates and the official rejection of your demand for public baby allowance.

As well as, PhD-scholars can apply for monetary help for analysis stays overseas. Nevertheless, we don’t fund participation in congresses or symposia.

Charges ensuing from programs on the college in Germany which are instantly associated to your research may be refunded as much as the quantity of € 1.500 per semester. Nevertheless, we don’t refund common semester charges ensuing from enrollment or annual re-registration.

Community and Seminars

Being a scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung means way more than simply receiving monetary help. Our students profit from a broad program of ideational help. They turn out to be a part of an energetic and dwelling community. This system is predicated on three pillars: 1. Private contact and mentoring. 2. A large seminar program – with over 180 actions per yr – for all of our app. 3.000 students in Germany. 3. Regional and native actions of our greater than 140 completely different college teams.

1. Mentoring by our employees and representatives on the universities

Our employees members and representatives on the universities supervise and seek the advice of our students personally. They monitor the progress of your research in addition to your participation within the seminar program and the actions of your college group. Our basis attaches nice significance to the continued improvement of your social dedication. The general goal is to help you in figuring out and in enhancing your particular person strengths.

2. A manifold seminar program

The target of the seminars, that are held completely for our students, is to develop the overall schooling of our students. The seminars present alternatives for an interdisciplinary change of concepts and knowledge with different students and acknowledged specialists. The ranges of matters embody historic, political, financial and social points on a nationwide, European and worldwide scope. Moreover, coaching and training seminars assist our students to strengthen their mushy abilities and to facilitate the transition from learning to skilled life.

3. Being a part of a neighborhood college group

The native college teams, “Hochschulgruppen”, are managed independently by our students together with the representatives of our basis on the universities, the so referred to as “Vertrauensdozenten”. Every semester, they create a program of numerous actions for themselves. These native teams additionally aid you with settling in and getting used to your new environment.

Our community of former students

It’s a matter of explicit curiosity to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to encourage networking between our present and former students. Over 14.000 alumni kind a vibrant and international community of former KAS students who play energetic roles in politics, economics, science and society all around the world and who, on the similar time, stay dedicated to our basis and its present students. Greater than 50 regional alumni teams worldwide and a number of other specialised sub-networks give nice alternatives to our former students and permit them to stay linked to our basis. This alumni community additionally gives sensible help: its members finance a Social Fund which gives assist to present and former students in circumstances of want. Furthermore, the community promotes scientific and social tasks.

The right way to apply

There are two methods to use for our scholarship program:

1) Every year new focus international locations or areas are decided for our choice procedures. In 2021 we’ll deal with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Latin America (coordinated by way of our workplace in Peru) and interviews might be performed on-line. In case you are dwelling in one in all these international locations, you could ship your written utility on to the accountable KAS workplace – please test their web-sites for the precise process and addressee. College students dwelling in international locations that aren’t listed can’t apply for the worldwide choice process in 2021.

2) In case you might be already dwelling or learning in Germany, you might be welcome to use for a scholarship through the home choice program utilizing our on-line process. Please fill out the applying kind on-line and add all required utility paperwork. Please don’t ship in any paperwork by mail as these won’t be thought of. The applying interval ends on July fifteenth (12:00/midday) every year for the home process.

Mandatory paperwork for the applying

Please obtain and fill out the applying kind and connect the next paperwork in case you are making use of for a MA-Scholarship.

• A significant CV in tabular kind together with particulars about your earlier voluntary work or social dedication.
• Motivation letter.
• Copies of your examination certificates in German translation if the originals usually are not in English.
• Copies of your research efficiency data if in case you have been learning at a College in Germany.
• Proof of German language abilities (B 2).
• An off-the-cuff educational letter of advice: This letter ought to present details about your educational {qualifications} and potential; it shouldn’t be older than two month. The writer needs to be a college professor or instructor holding a doctoral diploma.
• An off-the-cuff letter of advice in regards to the applicant’s persona: This letter ought to focus in your persona and pursuits in addition to in your understanding of values and your social dedication. The writer can’t be the identical because the one offering the tutorial letter of advice.
• Certificates of admission or matriculation out of your college in Germany.

In case you are making use of for a PhD-Scholarship, please add the next paperwork:

• An in depth description of your doctoral thesis: This exposé ought to be written in German or English (5-10 pages; font measurement 12; 1.5 line spacing) and may define the central analysis query of your proposed challenge, its scientific relevance, your theoretical method and the motives behind your selection of the analysis topic. It also needs to comprise a piece and time schedule and a bibliography.
• A second educational letter of advice: This second letter ought to be written by the supervisor of your doctoral thesis, offering you have already got one. It replaces the letter of advice in regards to the applicant’s persona.
• A affirmation of supervision by your doctor-father or -mother

Supply / Extra data: Official Web site HERE.