Research grants provide young foreign academics and scientists with an opportunity to carry out a research project or a course of continuing education and training at a German higher education institution or non-university research institute.
Research grants can be used to carry out
• research projects at a German higher education institution for the purpose of gaining a doctorate either in Germany or in your home country. We would particularly refer to the structured doctoral study programs, such as Research Training Groups or Doctoral Research Groups, International Postgraduate Programs, Graduate Schools, Max Planck Research Schools, etc. Please visit the following website for further information:
DAAD - Doctoral Studies in Germany
(http://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/promotion/06546.en.html).
• research projects or continuing education and training, but without aiming for a formal degree/qualification.
Requirements:
• Applications for DAAD research grants are open to excellently-qualified university graduates who hold a (research) Master's or Honours' degree at the time they commence the grant-supported research and, in exceptional cases, graduates holding a Bachelor's degree or already holding a doctorate/PhD (post-docs).
• It is required that doctoral candidates wishing to take a doctorate/PhD in their home country will already have been admitted to an appropriate course at their home university.
• The application papers must generally include written confirmation of academic supervision by a professor in Germany and expressly refer to the applicant's project, thereby confirming that the host institute will provide a workplace. If the applicant is planning to complete a doctorate at the German host university, the letter of confirmation must come from the academic supervisor (Doktorvater/Doktormutter) for the applicant's doctoral program/thesis.
• Applicants who intend to gain their doctorate within the scope of a structured doctoral study program are required to present a letter of admission from their study program or at least proof that they are being considered for admission.
Applicants who have been resident in Germany for longer than one year at the time of application, cannot be considered.
Special note for medical students: Please click here for specific requirements!
Application papers:
Detailed information on the application papers that need to be submitted can be found on the Application Form for "Research Grants and Study Scholarships" ("Antrag auf ein Forschungs-/Studienstipendium"), which can be obtained here.
Application address and deadlines (Date of receipt at the DAAD Information Centre Sydney):
• 30 September for a research stay longer than six months (for stays to run from October of the following year) • 30 September (for stays to run from February of the following year) and
• 31 March (for stays to run from August of the same year) for short term research stays up to six months
Dr. Andreas Jaeger
Director of the DAAD Information Centre
c/o Goethe-Institut Sydney
90 Ocean Street, Woollahra, NSW 2025, Australia
Phone: (+61-2) 8356 8345 (usually Mondays and Thursdays)
Fax: (+61-2) 8356 8314
Email: daad.australia@gmail.com
Source: DAAD Information Centre Sydney (http://ic.daad.de/sydney/researchDAADsships.htm)