Description:
The Heinrich Böll Foundation grants scholarships to approximately 1,000 undergraduates, graduates, and doctoral students of all subjects and nationalities per year, who are pursuing their degree at universities, universities of applied sciences (‘Fachhochschulen’), or universities of the arts (‘Kunsthochschulen’). We expect our scholarship recipients to have excellent academic records, to be socially and politically engaged, and to have an active interest in the basic values of the foundation: ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self determination and justice.
Student scholarship - general
Special groups are:
- first-generation students, students with migration background, or students from universities
of applied sciences
- students in MINT study programmes (mathematics, informatics, natural sciences or technical
subjects, especially with an environmental focus (environmental studies, climate studies,
renewable energies etj).
Students of all subjects in a MASTER'S programme, who gained their university entrance qualification from a school outside of Germany and who would like to study in Germany
- Special focus regions are: Central Europe, EU neighborhood/ CIS, Middle East/ Northern
Africa, transition and newly industrialised countries as well as conflict regions worldwide.
- Applicants must have already obtained a first university degree
- Good or very good knowledge of German is a requirement. The selection workshops are
generally held in German ( if a scholarship is granted, additional German language courses
can be financed).
Applicants for a doctorial scholarship (PhD)
Doctorial students of all subjects who gained their university entrance outside of Germany and who wish to do their doctorial studies in Germany:
- Special focus regions are: Central Europe, EU neighborhood/ CIS, Middle East/ Northern
Africa, transition and newly industrialised countries as well as conflict regions worldwide
- Applicants must provide proof that they have been accepted as a doctoral student by a
Germany institution of higher education.
- Preference will be given to dissertation projects related to thë working areas of the Heinrich
Boll Fondation
- Good or very good knowledge of German is a requirement. The selection workshops are
generally held in German ( if a scholarship is granted, additional German language courses
can be financed).
Deadline:01 March 2013
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