The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with financial support provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), supports academic qualification measures for individuals from developing countries who participate in the InCountry / In-Region Programme. Every year, the DAAD awards more than 1,000 BMZ-funded scholarships to junior researchers from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia and South Asia to help finance their Master or PhD programmes in their home country or region. The programme aims to enable trained professionals to address and deal with diverse societal, economic and ecological issues in developing countries. A further objective is to sustainably improve the teaching and research conditions in the partner regions and to strengthen their higher education profile.
As an additional offer for scholarship holders of the In-Country / In-Region Programme, the DAAD cooperates with German universities in organising a range of summer schools in Germany. These four-week measures give the students and young researchers an opportunity to take part in a high-class academic training in a selected subject area, meet and exchange with peers from across the world, and make their own, unique experiences of the German society, culture and history.
WORTH
Participants will receive the following:
- All course-related fees
- Travel expenses (economy class) from the international airport of the participant’s home country to Freiburg and back (via Frankfurt Rhein-Main International Airport)
Provision of accommodation:
- 1-20 Sep. 2020: Self-catered single room apartments in student dorms of the University of Freiburg with shared bathrooms and kitchen facilities
- 20-22 Sep. 2020: Shared rooms in a centrally located hostel in Bonn.
- 22-27 Sep. 2020: Shared rooms in a centrally located hostel in Frankfurt.
- Full emergency health insurance and accident insurance (for 1-30 September 2020)
- Free public transportation in Freiburg and surroundings as well as in Bonn and Frankfurt
ELIGIBILITY
- The “Contested Governance” Summer School is exclusively offered to current DAAD InCountry/In-Region scholarship holders (Master or PhD students) in countries of the Global South who have a primary qualification (at least a Bachelor’s degree) in political sciences or other social sciences. The maximum number of participants in this summer school is 28.
- In order to apply, you have to be an active scholarship holder of the DAAD’s In-Country / InRegion scholarship programme, as of 1 January 2020 (if your scholarship expires before or starts after that date, participation is not possible).
- Applicants have to provide proof of their English proficiency, as the language of communication in all summer schools will be English. If you are not sure about your level of fluency and/or the suitability of your documents, please contact the coordinators at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
DEADLINE: March 1 2020
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