Other scholarships, prizes and competitions
Numerous institutions award scholarships and prizes or hold competitions for students. Here you can find current announcements.
The European Universities Competition on Artificial Intelligence to Promote Sustainable Development and Address Climate Change invites students to propose innovative AI-driven solutions that tackle sustainability challenges and contribute to addressing climate change.
The competition aims to:
- Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among students, researchers, and faculty across European universities.
- Promote the development of AI applications that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Highlight the role of AI in creating solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The grand prizes are endowed with 4,000 euros.
Applications are open until 21 July 2025.
For more information, please visit www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/call-for-applications/.
The Enginneering Newcomer Award aims to promote young engineers and rewards particularly innovative and creative project or final theses in the field of engineering and development. The best project is awarded 2,000 euros, second place 1,000 euros, and third place 500 euros.
Applications are open until 31July 2025.
For more information, please visit norelem.de/de/engineering-newcomer.
The German University Foundation is awarding the Tandem Scholarship for educational advancers.
Students who will begin their studies in the winter semester of 202/26 and are the first in their family to study, have a higher education entrance qualification with at least the equivalent of the grade “good” of the German Abitur and are engaged in volunteer work can apply for the scholarship. They will be provided with 1:1 mentoring by a university lecturer who is close to their subject and place of study, and two workshops on key skills per year, personal one-on-one coaching sessions with professional coaches during the study period, networking events, specialist events and a study-related drawdown budget, as well as a digital package, will support their study and career success.
Applications are open until 1 September 2025.
All information about the scholarship and the application can be found at www.deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de/stipendienprogramme/tandem/.
With the hochform scholarship, the German University Foundation, in cooperation with the Walter Blüchert Foundation, supports refugee students or students from developing countries who are studying in a Master's degree program in a STEM subject at a public German university.
Applications are open to students in the first semester of their degree program who have German language skills of at least C1 level, are eligible for BAFÖG or have adequate funding, and are no older than 44 years.
Scholarship holders receive the following benefits:
- Matching with a university lecturer close to their subject and location as a mentor
- Supervision of the mentoring relationship by the German University Foundation
- Seminars to develop key skills (twice a year, compulsory) on the following topics:
- Mentoring as an opportunity and a task
- Self and learning management
- Job application training
- Intercultural skills
- One-time personal coaching with a professional coach during the study period
- Reimbursement of travel expenses for seminars and other trips associated with the scholarship
- Participation in academic events (e.g. DHV symposium) and involvement in relevant networks
- Provision of an annual call-off budget per scholarship holder for study-related costs
- Digital package for the purchase of digital technology, once per scholarship
Applications must be sent to Carina Heuser (heuser@deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de) with a letter of motivation (max. one page) outlining the expectations of the scholarship, a CV in tabular form (max. 2 pages) as well as certificates, proof of language proficiency, and certificate of enrollment electronically in single PDF.
Applications can be submitted until 30 September 2025.
For more information, please visit www.deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de/stipendienprogramme/hochform/ (German).
The TransForm concrete design competition invites students of architecture, design and engineering to explore and rethink the potential of concrete in terms of this change.
Entries can deal with aesthetic, structural, or technological issues as well as ecological, economic, or social aspects. The sensitive handling of existing structures – whether listed or previously unnoticed – is also welcome.
The competition does not specify a fixed task. Participants choose their own context to suit their idea, their fascination, their creative vision. The spectrum of possible entries ranges from objects and furniture to architectural details, residential and landscape buildings, infrastructure projects, complex supporting structures, concrete formulations, or material studies.
The decisive factor is that the projects must combine technical, functional, design, and programmatic aspects. The concepts should be illustrated by designs and their potential convincingly demonstrated.
The creative implementation of the TransForm theme and the design relevance of the ideas submitted will be assessed. The decisive factor here is how concrete is used and why this use makes sense and is forward-looking.
The competition will take place in five European countries in the academic years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. The national winners will be invited to a one-week international workshop in Vienna (Austria), led by renowned lecturers and experts who are intensively involved in the future of building with concrete. Prize money totaling 3,000 Euros and a seat on the jury for the subsequent competition in 2027 will also be awarded.
Applications are open until 8. April 2026.
For more information, please visit www.concretedesigncompetition.de/.
With the Ungethüm-Aesculap Scholarship for the Advancement of Surgery and Medical Technology, the B. Braun Foundation supports surgeons from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who wish to spend time at German universities to conduct research on medical technology topics.
The scholarship is aimed at surgeons with two to three years of professional experience in clinical research in the fields of general surgery, trauma surgery/orthopaedics, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, plastic surgery. or thoracic surgery.
Applications can be submitted between 1 March and 30 April and between 1 September and 31 October of each year.
Further information can be found at www.bbraun-stiftung.de/de/foerderungen/Ungethuem-Aesculap-Stipendium/Ungethuem-Aesculap-Fellowship.html.
Rimon supports interns whose internship is not or hardly paid. The scholarship is aimed in particular at people who want to do an internship in the fields of environment, education or health.
Scholarship holders are supported with 1,000 euros per month for the duration of the internship (up to three months).
Applicants do not have to be accepted for the internship at the time of application, but the scholarship will only be paid out if the internship actually begins.
Please send your application letter and CV to kontakt@rimon.group. In your application letter, please elaborate on what internship you would like to do and why, and what personal or professional goal this will bring you closer to.
Application deadline: November 30, February 28, May 31, August 31. The decision to award the scholarship will be made at the end of the month following the application deadline.
For more information, visit www.rimon.group/stipendium.
The Welcome Scholarship of the German University Foundation supports students from refugee areas who are studying at a German university, art or music college in a Bachelor’s or state examination degree program.
Applications are open to refugees in the first or second semester of their degree course who have German language skills of at least C1 level and are eligible for BAFÖG or have adequate funding.
Scholarship holders receive the following benefits:
- Matching with a university lecturer close to their subject and location as a mentor
- Supervision of the mentoring relationship by the German University Foundation
- Seminars to develop key skills (twice a year, compulsory) on the following topics:
- Mentoring as an opportunity and a task
- Self and learning management
- Presentation and self-presentation
- Job application training
- Business etiquette and communication
- Intercultural skills
- One-time personal coaching with a professional coach during the study period
- Reimbursement of travel expenses for seminars and other trips associated with the scholarship
- Participation in academic events (e.g. DHV symposium) and involvement in relevant networks
- Provision of an annual call-off budget per scholarship holder for study-related costs
- Digital package for the purchase of digital technology, once per scholarship
Applications must be sent to Simone Geerdsen (geerdsen@deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de) with a letter of motivation (max. one page) outlining the expectations of the scholarship, a CV in tabular form (max. 2 pages) as well as certificates, proof of language proficiency, and certificate of enrollment electronically in single PDF.
Applications can be submitted until 1 April and 1 September.
For more information, please visit www.deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de/stipendienprogramme/welcome/ (German).
The Franco-Bavarian University cooperation center BayFrance supports students at Bavarian or French universities who are planning a study or research visit in Bavaria or France. Scholarship holders receive a one-off grant of 500 euros to cover additional costs prior to a mobility phase and a location-dependent travel allowance of up to 450 euros. In addition, the costs of a preparatory online language course in German or French via DUO online can be covered.
The minimum duration for a study visit is four months, for research visits one month; corporate internships are not eligible for funding.
Details on the call for applications and the application process can be found at www.bayern-france.org/de/foerderung/unsere-foerderprogramme/studierende/ (German).
Applications can be submitted until April 15 and November 15 of each year.
The district of Coburg awards scholarships to students of human medicine every winter semester.
Scholarship holders receive monthly financial support of 500 euros with a maximum funding period of 5 years. In addition, a grant of 600 euros from the Free State of Bavaria can be received.
Following university training, the scholarship holders complete further training as specialists in general medicine at the Coburg Further Training Association. This is followed by 24 months of practical work in general medicine in the Coburg region.
Applications are open until 31 October each year.
Further information can be found at gesundheitsregionplus.coburg-stadt-landkreis.de/arbeitsschwerpunkte/gesundheitsversorgung/stipendienprogramm/.
The Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency offers various scholarships for participation in language courses, summer and winter schools as well as study and research stays and internships in the Czech Republic. For more information, visit www.btha.cz/de/.
With “Böckler-Aktion Bildung”, the Hans Böckler Foundation awards scholarships to young people who could not afford to study otherwise. Students who are on their way to obtaining their high school diploma (Abitur) or entrance qualification for university of applied sciences (Fachhochschulreife) can apply. Applications are also open to those who have only recently qualified for university entrance.
Applications can be submitted up to three months before the end of the standard period of study.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation supports around 1400 students and doctoral candidates of all disciplines and nationalities each year, both in universities and universities of applied sciences in Germany.
Scholarship holders are expected to demonstrate outstanding academic or scientific achievements, social commitment and political interest, as well as an active engagement with the Foundation's core values of ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice.
Applications are generally open March 1 and September 1 of each year.
All information can be found at www.boell.de/en/scholarships.
With its graduation grant, the E.W.-Kuhlmann-Stiftung supports students who are about to graduate and are dependent on financial support. They can receive an interest-free loan of up to €2000.
Applications can be submitted continuously.
Insights technology provider SUPRA is supporting scholarship recipients by funding a survey panel with 1,000 participants worth 3,500 euros.
Students of economics, marketing, market research, business information systems, psychology, social sciences or other similar subjects are eligible to apply.
To enter, applicants must submit an essay of 1,000 to 1,500 words on one of the categories (1) new pricing strategies for consumer products, (2) leveraging tech for better pricing, (3) innovative insights and research to find better pricing, (4) the future of pricing psychology or (5) AI methods in pricing.
Applications are accepted annually until August 30.
For more information, visit https://supra.tools/scholarship.
TUM Asia provides successful applicants with a one-time grant of up to 50% of the tuition fees for one of the following Master’s programs: Aerospace Engineering, Green Electronics, Industrial Chemistry, Integrated Circuit Design, Logistics Engineering and Management, Rail and Urban Transport, and Sustainable Food.
Detailed information on the TUM Asia Scholarship and how to apply can be found at tum-asia.edu.sg/admissions/graduate/scholarships/.
Applications can be submitted until the application deadline for the respective degree program.
The Stahlmann Foundation offers a housing scholarship to students who are younger than 25, have a good command of written and spoken German, have a clear idea of their educational goal, are striving to achieve this goal at a German educational institution, are in some form of need, and are willing to make a commitment to the Foundation.
The scholarship covers the rent for a shared apartment and the guarantee for the rent deposit for the current semester in each case; it is possible to extend the scholarship to a maximum of six semesters in total if studies proceed successfully.
For the application a curriculum vitae in German, a letter of motivation in German, the last certificate of the highest educational qualification, two independent confidential recommendations in German or English with contact information from the home country (in case of Ukrainian applicants also from another country) as well as the admission of a German educational institution are required.
Here you will find further information (German).