Scholarships

• There is no fixed age limit for DAAD scholarships.
• In some cases, the last academic degree may last only a certain time.
• Language skills: If the study programme is taught in English, proof of good Englsh language skills may be accepted.
• Example for DAAD Scholarships: DAAD-Promos (for internships or research for the thesis abroad)

Denominational foundations

• Adelhausen-Stiftung – Dr. Leo-Ricker Stiftung (catholic) http://www.stiftungsverwaltung-freiburg.de/stiftungen/
  
• Bread for the World (BfW) (protestant; applicants must be suggested to the organization) https://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/en/bread-for-the-world/
  
• Cusanuswerk (catholic) www.cusanuswerk.de/startseite.html
  
• Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation www.ekfs.de/
  
• Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst: Scholarship for Students (protestant) www.evstudienwerk.de/
  
• KAAD: Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst (catholic) www.kaad.de/
  

1. Program 1 (for students applying from their home countries)
   
2. Program 2 (for students from developing countries, already in Germany)

• Ökumenisches Studentenwerk (ÖSW) (protestant) 

Party-affiliated foundations

• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung www.fes.de/de/
  
• Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung www.freiheit.org/
  
• Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung www.hss.de/
  
• Hans-Böckler-Stiftung www.boeckler.de/index.htm
  
• Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung www.boell.de/
  
• Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (scholarships for foreign students) www.kas.de/
  
• Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung www.rosalux.de/
  

Business-oriented organizations

• Bayer Foundation www.bayer-foundations.com/
  
• Claussen-Simon-Stiftung (Beiersdorf) www.claussen-simon-stiftung.de/stiftung.html
  
• Haniel Stiftung www.haniel-stiftung.de/
  
• Johannes und Cordula Trum-Stiftung www.jct-stiftung.de
  

Others

• Deutschlandstipendium (http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/studium-en/stipendien-en/deutschlandstipendium-en/foerderfaehigkeit-en?set_language=en)
• e-fellows.net
• Fellowship program of UNESCO (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/fellowships)
• Housing benefits (rent subsidy) for students not eligible for BAföG or for certain other reasons (more information from SWFR BAföG Office)
• Oberle Stiftung
• Otto-Benecke-Stiftung
• Studienförderwerk Klaus Murmann (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft)
• Wellcome Trust/Master’s Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• World Bank Scholarship and Fellowship Program

1. Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program
   

 For students from certain countries

• Africa

1. Egypt : German Egyptian Research Short-Term Scholarship Program (GERSS)
2. Ghana : Ghana Education Trust Fund
3. South Africa : DAAD-NRF Joint Scholarship Program South Africa

• America

1. Argentina : ALEARG
2. Colombia : COLFUTURO – Fundación para el Futuro de Colombia
3. Costa Rica : ALECOSTA

• Asia

1. Hong Kong : DAAD Croucher Scholarship
2. Indonesia : DAAD-ACEH Scholarship of Excellence (Province of Aceh)
3. Saudi-Arabia : KASP – King Abdullah Scholarship Programme
4. Turkey : DAAD-TEV-Master’s degree scholarships
5. DAAD-TROPMED Scholarships (Indonesia, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam)

•  Australia

• Europe

1. Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. – EUROPA-Fellowship (no Germans, also for Turkish and Israeli citizens)
2. Association for Student Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe (GFPS): Scholarship Programme (Belarus, the Czech Republic and Poland)
3. BAföG – Financial Aid for German and European students
4. Evangelisches Studienwerk: Eastern European Scholarship
5. Stipendium Plus
6. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Where students can find further information:

• Freiburger Förderportal von FRS (ffp.uni-freiburg.de) Scholarship Database for Freiburg
• University of Freiburg http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/studium-en/stipendien-en
  

• foundations.org
• idealist.org
• mystipendium.de
• stipendien-datenbank.de
• stipendienlotse.de
• vergleich.org/stipendium