Scholarships, Postgraduates courses
for Professionals with Relevance
to Developing Countries
DAAD: Scholarships and Postgraduate Courses for Professionals with Relevance to Developing Countries Opportunity type: Fellowships and Scholarships Opportunity closing date: Friday, October 15, 2010 With its Postgraduate Courses for Professionals with Relevance to Developing Countries, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has created an educational programme that has set several milestones on the way to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. This is because well-trained local professionals who are networked with international partners play an important role. They are the best guarantee for a better future with less poverty, more education, and good health for all.
For these courses, the DAAD sponsors selected persons from developing countries by awarding them scholarships that enable them to acquire an internationally competitive degree in a postgraduate course with close ties to practical experience.
Detailed Information on the Programmes can be found here.
The main goal of the postgraduate programmes is promoting the higher qualification of young, employed professionals in fields related to development policy. This next generation elite are offered the opportunity to acquire an internationally recognized university degree in Germany. When these scholarship holders return to their home countries, ideally back to the same organizations or government agencies, the knowledge that they acquired during the postgraduate course should put them in the position to contribute toward the further development of their countries. The university degree acquired in Germany thereby fills the formal requirement allowing programme participants to move into decision-making positions after the completion of their studies.
Young professionals (generally no more than 36 years old) with a first academic degree and several years of work experience in a governmental ministry, central agency or subordinate authority, in a chamber of commerce and industry, an enterprise or business, or as the employee of an NGO or development help project, are the primary, desired clientele of this programme.
Dates and deadlines:
For admission of the university course into the DAAD funding programme:
Scholarship applicants from developing countries (on the DAC List of the OECD (*.pdf)) can apply at the German embassy or DAAD regional office, directly at the DAAD in Bonn or directly to the university.
General closing dates for applications:
For these courses, the DAAD sponsors selected persons from developing countries by awarding them scholarships that enable them to acquire an internationally competitive degree in a postgraduate course with close ties to practical experience.
Detailed Information on the Programmes can be found here.
The main goal of the postgraduate programmes is promoting the higher qualification of young, employed professionals in fields related to development policy. This next generation elite are offered the opportunity to acquire an internationally recognized university degree in Germany. When these scholarship holders return to their home countries, ideally back to the same organizations or government agencies, the knowledge that they acquired during the postgraduate course should put them in the position to contribute toward the further development of their countries. The university degree acquired in Germany thereby fills the formal requirement allowing programme participants to move into decision-making positions after the completion of their studies.
Young professionals (generally no more than 36 years old) with a first academic degree and several years of work experience in a governmental ministry, central agency or subordinate authority, in a chamber of commerce and industry, an enterprise or business, or as the employee of an NGO or development help project, are the primary, desired clientele of this programme.
Dates and deadlines:
For admission of the university course into the DAAD funding programme:
Scholarship applicants from developing countries (on the DAC List of the OECD (*.pdf)) can apply at the German embassy or DAAD regional office, directly at the DAAD in Bonn or directly to the university.
General closing dates for applications:
· German Embassy/DAAD Regional Office: 31 July
· DAAD in Bonn: 31 August
· University: 30 September or 15 October
Applicants should be sure to check information regarding application closing dates directly with the individual universities (*.pdf) because they may vary from the general deadlines listed above.The selection process generally takes place at the universities in the period from November to February.
Scholarships are usually awarded for the following winter semester.
For more information and advice, please contact:
DAAD-Office Johannesburg
Dr. Ralf Hermann
University of the Witwatersrand
Department of Literature and Language Studies
P O Box 269
Wits 2050 Johannesburg /Südafrika
E-mail: daad@wits.ac.za
DAAD Lektor
Iris Vernekohl
School of Government FL
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Belleville 7535, Cape Town
E-mail: vernekohl.daad@gmx.de
For other opportunities, refer to www.ngopulse.org/group/home-page/other-opportunities
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