Deadline:
March 05, 2025
Location(s)
Germany
Overview
The programme offers young environmental scientists from these countries the opportunity to obtain additional professional qualifications through a research fellowship in Germany for up to 12 months. Applications are made online. The best applicants will be chosen once a year. The research stay in Germany begins approximately six months after the selection interviews have taken place.
Details
The DBU welcomes a wide range of topics in the environmental sciences and especially supports reseach stays in facilities that offer experience in step with actual practice. Some scholarship holders from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) use their reseach stay in Germany to continue work on their dissertation. The DBU welcomes partnerships between German and international university institutions.
Institutions that host international scholarship recipients include universities, companies from the environmental management, engineering and consulting sectors as well as ministries and other associations. The DBU provides approximately 60 research fellowshiops at German institutions annually for young scientists from the aforementioned countries. The amount of the scholarship is 1,350 € per month. In addition to financial support, health, accident and liability insurance is also provided.
The scholarship begins with a 3-4-week intensive German course in Osnabrück. The cost of the course will be financed by the DBU. Additional information on the course will be communicated after the successful accomplishment of theapplication process.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility
Applications are accepted from university graduates from the above-named countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The studies program must have been completed with above-average exams (Master‘s, Magister degree/diploma) not more than three years in the past. Applicants must be citizens of one of the previously named countries and have a permanent residence in their home country at the time of the application.
Priority for scholarships is given to persons who have not previously studied in Germany. All applicants must have adequate know- ledge of the German language and demons- trate this, at the latest, at the beginning of the scholarship period (through a language school diploma/certi cate, language level B1).
The scholarship is not intended for students who wish to write a doctoral thesis or carry out a doctoral studies program at a German institute of higher learning. Nor is the scho- larship for persons who, at the time of their application, are already active in Germany within the framework of advanced quali ca- tion or the practice of a profession. PhD stu- dents may not complete their doctoral studies during the DBU scholarship program.
Dates
Deadline: March 05, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Financial benefits
- up to 50 fellowships annually. Fellowships funded to date
- Funding period: 6-12 months
- monthly fellowship: 1.350 €
- Health, accident and liability insurance
- Intensive German course in Osnabrück lasting several weeks before the stay at the host institution
Ideal promotion
- Assistance in finding a host institution in Germany: possible options include universities, research institutes, companies, specialized authorities, NGOs, etc.
- Seminars for mutual exchange
- Invitation to important DBU events, e.g. the presentation of the German Environmental Award
- Networking between fellows as well as alumni via the online communication platform Stipnet
- annual meetings of alumni in their home countries
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
