200 programmes worldwide
The 200 and more programmes with which the DAAD pursues its goals range from short-term
research or teaching exchange through to doctoral
scholarships for (post) graduates from developing
countries which last several years, and from information
visits by delegations of foreign university rectors
and vice-chancellors through to the long-term regional
programme which aims to create efficient higher
education systems in the Third World. Essentially,
DAAD funding programmes areopen for all countries
of the world and for all disciplines. In some cases,
the exchange frameworks and procedures have been
embedded in international cultura lagreements or
defined in arrangements reached between the DAAD
and its partner organisations abroad. As a rule,
the other party will also offer corresponding measures
(e.g., reciprocal scholarships, payments and services
from the host country,exemption from fees).
Further information about our programmes can be
found in the Annual
Report.
Guidance-counselling for scholarship holders
A substantial proportion of the DAAD’s work is concerned with guiding, counselling
and advising scholarship holders, whereby the cost to the DAAD in terms
of time and energy varies considerably, depending on the nationality and the specific
study situation of the scholarship holder. Visits by the relevant desk officers,
even as early as during a student’s preliminary language courses in Germany,
introductory events held throughout Germany at the host institutions, and scholarship
holder meetings arranged by the DAAD – in the year under review in Berlin,
Bonn, Freiburg, Jena and Lübeck – all belong to the regular guidance-counselling
services as do the exchange of experience meetings held at the DAAD Annual
Conference on Studying Abroad, plus specific continuing training events.
More information about the DAAD's guidance-counselling for scholarship holders
Contacts with former foreign scholarship holders
The DAAD uses various instruments to keep in touch with former long-term scholarship
holders (Alumni) from abroad – including those who once studied with a
scholarship in East Germany. These measures include the alumni magazine
"DAAD-Letter – Hochschule und Ausland" with a print-run of just under 32,000
copies, a dedicated information service on the DAAD website (Alumni Forum),
literature and equipment donations plus re-invitation visits lasting several months,
and seminars with German colleagues.
In addition, subject-related seminars for former scholarship holders are held
abroad which generally originate from initiatives taken by Alumni Clubs or by
Lektors or, occasionally, constitute part of a BMZ programme under which
German higher education institutions organise events for their own alumni from
developing countries. The year 2001 saw Alumni Seminars held in Australia,
Chile, Cuba, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, North
Korea, Poland, Portugal, Syria and in Uganda, and elsewhere. In addition, ten
major Alumni Seminars were organised by the DAAD in Argentina, China, India,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mongolia, Romania, Spain and in Yugoslavia.
Former scholarship holders have meanwhile set up
more than 120 Alumni
Clubs around the world. While the DAAD cannot
provide these clubs with institutional support,
it can and does support appropriate projects.
Contacts with German alumni – "Freundeskreis"
German DAAD alumni often advance to work in leading professional positions in
science, education and research, or business, industry
and politics. However, contacts with them have previously
been much less emphasised than contacts with foreign
alumni, especially since no special programmes existed
for this group. Yet, German alumni can also keep
in touch with each other and with the DAAD via the
DAAD’s web-based Alumni Forum,
can subscribe to the journal "Post- Skript" (print-run
of 16,000 copies), or can join the "Association
of Alumni and Friends of the DAAD", known in
German as "Vereinigung Ehemaliger und Freunde des
DAAD e.V.", or, in short, "Freundeskreis".
The DAAD Freundeskreis currently has some 1,200 members who, above all,
endeavour to help and advise foreign DAAD scholarship holders completing a stay
The DAAD in 2001 in their "home" university town. The association is managed by DAAD head office
staff in Bonn.
The Freundeskreis cooperates with the so-called "Tönissteiner Kreis", an association
of people who gained at least one year’s experience abroad in an Englishspeaking
and in a French-speaking cultural area. The cooperation focuses on supporting
young German academics and scientists interested in taking up a position
in international organisations and, in particular, who take part in the internship
support provided under the "Carlo-Schmid Programme".
Programme to internationalise German higher education institutions
Since the mid-1990s and the adoption of an appropriate "Action Programme", the
DAAD has developed a number of institutional structure-building programmes
which aim to make German science, education and research more attractive to
the international market (Objective 3). This includes programmes to improve the
content of study and research opportunities, to relax the legislative framework conditions
which foreign guests face and, finally, to create a professional information
and marketing system. The programmes are largely funded by the BMBF from the
proceeds of the sale of 3rd generation digital phone networks (UMTS) and thus
will run for a limited time only.
More information about the DAAD's programme to internationalise German higher education institutions
International higher education marketing
The establishment of an "International marketing office to promote study, research
and training in Germany" allowed the DAAD to further extend and professionalise
its marketing activities. This new office now serves both the Higher Education
Consortium "GATE-Germany" and the "Joint Initiative" Secretariat.
GATE-Germany was jointly established by the DAAD and the HRK on 1 January
2001. Its mission is to position German science, education and research in the
international market and to promote the profile of its meanwhile 100 and more
members by running appropriate programmes and campaigns abroad (participation
at fairs and exhibitions, information and marketing tours). The work programme is
advised by five committee, whose chairs form a steering committee. DAAD Vice-
President Professor Huber chairs the consortium. Campaigns are funded by the
BMBF using proceeds from the sale of 3rd generation digital phone networks.
GATE-Germany cooperates with the "Hi! Potentials" Joint Initiative – also
launched in 2001 and affiliated to the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational
Planning and Research Promotion (Bund-Länder Kommission für Bildungsplanung
und Forschungsförderung – BLK). The members of the Joint Initiative are federal
government, the state (Länder) governments, intermediary organisations, science,
education and research institutions, and German business and industry. Under
its slogan "International careers made in Germany", the Joint Initiative promotes
German study, research and training around the world. The Secretariat of the Joint
Initiative is located at the DAAD. Besides the major opening event held in India in
October 2001 in the presence of Federal Chancellor Schröder, the Secretariat
organised advertising campaigns in Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia. As a rule,
advertising measures are closely coordinated with GATE-Germany.
Promoting the German language and German studies at foreign universities
Just under one fifth of the DAAD’s programme funds are assigned to promoting
German language, literature and area studies abroad.
These begin with the onemonth summer course visits offered
by universities and colleges in Germany, include structured
semester scholarships for international German studies
students and academics and regular one-year and doctoral
scholarships right through to the provision of support
for institutional German studies partnerships with universities
and colleges in Eastern Europe and the establishment
in these countries of degree courses instructed in German.
More information about
the DAAD's promotion of the German language and German
studies at foreign universities
Programmes for developing and transformation countries
The programmes for developing and transformation countries focus primarily on
providing continuing education and training for young academic staff and for
important experts and executives (staff development) as well as on supporting the
construction of appropriate structures (institution building). This is why the instruments,
above all, involve various study programmes in Germany and in the home
country or respectively the home region (sur-place and "third country" scholarships).
The DAAD receives substantial funds for its programmes from the BMZ,
although in some cases Federal Foreign Office (scholarship) programmes also take
effect here.
More information about
the programmes for developing and transformation countries
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