Training professionals and managers

Students Jakarta

Professionals, managers and university lecturers can initiate lasting political, economic, and social transformation processes and innovative solutions to local and global problems.

The DAAD supports the training of experts and future leaders from the Global South. For example, we grant scholarships for degree programmes at German universities that are particularly relevant for the development agenda and to solve global problems. The DAAD also awards master's or doctoral scholarships for future university lecturers at selected universities and research institutions in the students' home regions. These scholarship holders can additionally apply for study visits to Germany.  Specialised scholarship programmes are designed to include on-the-job training phases to establish first contacts with the business world. We also provide funding for German academics to support higher education institutions in countries of the Global South.

The DAAD also fund specific trainings that complement our scholarships, for example workshops on the systematic use of free digital libraries for research and teaching. Such courses are promoted especially in the framework of the BMZ special initiatives "ONE WORLD – No Hunger” and "Tackling the root causes of displacement, reintegrating refugees". 

doctoral candidates

After the end of the scholarship, the DAAD promotes the ongoing networking and training of alumni, among other things through the Alumniportal Deutschland and self-organised expert events addressing central development issues. Alumni, working at higher education institutions in their home countries, can be supported with donations of scientific equipment as well.

The DAAD scholarships programmes facilitate training and networking of highly qualified young researchers. Supporting these "change agents" contributes solving regional problems and finding answers to global issues. Alumni become qualified researchers and university teachers or occupy key positions in the society. In these positions they can apply and pass on their acquired knowledge and thereby positively influence the development of their countries. 

Our scholarship holders act as mediators for intercultural dialogue and are important cooperation partners for German institutions and companies. Their presence fosters high quality application-oriented research and teaching at higher education institutions in their home  regions. At German universities, they support internationalisation and improve development-related competence.

DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service