From November 2 to 4, 2022, the Power and Energy Student Summit and the Power Electronics Student Summit will be held in Kassel, Germany, as a joint international professional conference specifically aimed at students and doctoral candidates. The main focus is on electrical power engineering and power electronics. The conference enables students to gain their first experience in writing, publishing and discussing their own publications in front of an expert audience.
Interested parties are invited to submit a scientific paper with results from student research projects, theses, auxiliary activities, etc. The selected contributions can be presented at the conference and published in the IEEE Xplore research database; the best contributions will also be awarded a prize of € 1,000.
Some authors may be allowed to attend the conference free of charge. Please contact studentsummit2022(at)iee.fraunhofer.de.
Details about the conference and how to submit papers can be found at www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/e2n/pess-pelss-2022.
Submissions are open until September 23, 2022.
Each year, the district of Leer awards five scholarships to support students of human medicine. The aim is to support students who decide at an early stage to work as a contract medical specialist in an area of the Leer district with below-average medical care.
The medical students receive a monthly allowance of 400 or 600 euros from the beginning of their studies. The allowance is intended to enable the students to concentrate intensively on their studies and to complete them quickly and successfully. The scholarship is granted from the beginning of the winter semester of the year of the grant, at the longest until the end of the standard period of study of twelve semesters and three months. The scholarship holders undertake to work as contract physicians in an underserved area in the district for two or three years after completing their specialist training.
Applications are open until October 15, 2022.
For more information on the fellowship and how to apply, visit www.landkreis-leer.de/media/custom/13_843_1.PDF?1467041829.
The Zava Scholarship in the amount of €2,000, an initiative of the telemedicine provider Zava, is awarded five times a year and is aimed at medical students in Germany. The goal is to give them an insight into the professional world of online medicine and into the development of medical algorithms and products to support the digital doctor's work.
For the application, a one-page CV as PDF, a motivation letter on the topic “Healthcare of the future – how can digital innovations and solutions ensure patient safety and support physicians in efficient patient care?” of at least 2,000 words and also as PDF, as well as a current certificate of enrollment are required. Documents should be sent to stipendium(at)zavamed.com.
Applications are open until March 31, 2023.
In fall 2022, the Stiftung Industrieforschung (Industrial Research Foundation) will award up to eight scholarships for master's and diploma theses that are highly relevant to small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial SME sector in Germany.
The scholarships are research grants for students of technical and scientific courses of study who have performed particularly well in the course of their studies and who wish to work in a scientifically sound and at the same time practice-oriented manner in their upcoming thesis. Scholarship holders receive 500 euros per month for a maximum period of six months.
Applications for funding can only be submitted by the instructors who are responsible for the respective qualification theses. Applications are possible until Ocotber 9, 2022.
More information can be found at https://www.stiftung-industrieforschung.de/htm/stipendien.php.
In the winter semester 2022/23, three scholarships will be awarded in the areas of water and environment by the Roland Mall Foundation at the Technical University of Munich.
The foundation aims to promote talented students who have already achieved or for whom outstanding achievements are expected due to their previous commitments and career experiences. Social and personal circumstances are also taken into account.
Master students in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering will be given preference. Applicants should be enrolled in the first semester of the Master's Program.
The professional suitability and personal qualifications of the applicants are decisive for award of the scholarships. A prerequisite is also that the applicants are in need of financial support.
The scholarship awardee will be supported as follows:
- The scholarship amount is €500 per month.
- The maximum duration of the scholarship corresponds to the regular study time needed to complete the Master’s Degree.
- The start of the scholarship will be at the time of the official scholarship award.
The funding is also subject to the following conditions:
- The student is not receiving any other talent- or performance-dependent material sponsorship, i.e. does not receive any other scholarship.
- Self-declaration as to need, i.e. proof of having received BAföG during Bachelor studies
- Submission of the Bachelor’s thesis and Bachelor’s Degree Certificate with Transcript
- Letter of motivation
- Curriculum vitae; if applicable also proof of special awards, as well as societal and social engagement; proof of German language proficiency with foreign applicants
- Master study schedule (whole study)
- Willingness to choose a topic for the master thesis covering the spectrum of the company MALL Environmental Systems
If he or she is shortlisted, the student will be evaluated on the basis of a 15-minute talk to be given as part of the application process. The subject should have a professional relation to the respective master course.
The relevant documents are to be submitted digitally (Application documents as one complete pdf-document + Bachelor’s thesis (pdf) extra) to the chairman of the selection committee (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Helmreich, Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Email: b.helmreich(at)tum.de) by 31.10.2022 at the latest.
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The Bavarian Ministry of Finance supports dedicated bachelor students in the field of IT with the Study Grant for IT Talents.
Applicants should already have studied two semesters in an IT degree program with above-average performance and want to continue with it in a goal- and graduation-oriented manner, and should be interested in gaining practical experience in a state IT agency while still studying.
Funded students receive a monthly study grant of 415 euros for the remainder of their studies, as well as practical insights into the state IT infrastructure and hands-on experience in one of the major state IT agencies.
For more information on the program and how to apply, visit www.stmfh.bayern.de/oeffentlicher_dienst/studienfoerderung_it/default.aspx.
The application deadline for the 2023 summer semester is 15.11.2022.
The funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research supports professionals with vocational training and several years of practical experience in their first academic studies . Applications are possible even before the start of studies and until the end of the second semester. A full-time study program is supported with 934 euros per month plus 80 euros book allowance. In addition, there is a care allowance for children under 14 of 160 euros per child. For scholarship holders who study alongside their job, the funding amounts to 2,900 euros per calendar year.
Application deadline: 28.11.2022
Here you will find further information (German).
With the AI Testbed Competition, the Estonian government invites students with interest and expertise in data science and analytics to participate in an experimental testbed to find solutions to real-world problems based on open data.
The challenge includes five sub-competitions:
- Drinking water quality prediction
- Multi-intent detection of customers' requests
- Improving the quality of museums data
- Object recognition of the city of Tartu's image bank
- Skills detection from the text
For more information on the competition and how to participate, please visit en.kratid.ee/aitestbedcompetition.
In view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Hildegardis Association is launching an emergency aid program for female students who belong to a Christian denomination. The applications for the interest-free loans that the association has been granting since its foundation in 1907 are now being examined and approved in an expedited procedure. The simplified procedure includes a grant of up to €3000.
Applications can be submitted continuously.
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.
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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, and Rail, Transport and Logistics.
Applicants must email TUM Asia Admissions Advisors (events(at)tum-asia.edu.sg) and include this e-flyer, which also provides more detailed information about the TUM Asia Scholarship, to receive a special code. With this code, they can fill out an online application on this website. In doing so, they must also submit an essay of no more than 500 words in which applicants justify why they should receive the TUM Asia Scholarship.
Applications are accepted annually between October 1 and March 31.
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).