Other scholarships, prizes and competitions
Numerous institutions award scholarships and prizes or hold competitions for students. Here you can find current announcements.
The Landwirtschaftliche Rentenverein e.V. supports Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in the fields of Agriculture and Forestry at German universities and universities of applied sciences. Topics such as sustainability and risk prevention in agriculture and forestry are of particular interest.
Sponsored students receive a one-off payment of 500 euros. In addition, one Bachelor’s thesis and one Master’s thesis will be selected once a year from among all completed theses submitted, for which an additional grant of 1,000 euros will be awarded.
To apply, please send a synopsis (also of theses that have already been started) with a letter of motivation to info@rentenverein.com.
Applications for the first half-year are possible until May 31, 2024, and for the second half-year until October 15, 2024.
Further information can be found at www.rentenverein.com/stipendium-2.html.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) administers the scholarship programme “Bridge Scholarships for Palestinians in Germany” with funds from the Federal Foreign Office. As part of the programme, qualified Palestinians, who are in Germany and not able to return home due to the current situation, will receive the possibility to establish or improve their academic qualifications.
Bachelor’s students, Master’s students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers as well as university lecturers from the Palestinian Territories from all academic disciplines are eligible to apply. Study and research projects with the aim of obtaining a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or doctoral degree, or implementing a research project at a state or state-recognised higher educational institute resp. non-university research institution in Germany can be funded.
Scholarship benefits currently include:
- depending on the academic level, monthly payments of 992 euros for Bachelor’s or Master’s students, 1,300 euros for doctoral and postdoctoral candidates, 2,150 euros for (assistant) professors
- payments towards health, accident, and personal liability insurance cover
Under certain circumstances, scholarship holders may receive the following additional benefits:
- monthly rent subsidy
- monthly allowance for family members
- In case of a disability or chronic illness: on application, a subsidy may be provided for justified additional costs, incurred in Germany due to the disability, that are necessary to realise the project in Germany and that are not covered by a third party; whether and to what extent a subsidy will be paid, will be reviewed and determined on an individual basis (see important information for scholarship applicants, section F, point 8)
To allow you to improve your language skills during the scholarship:
- allowance for a personally chosen German language course
Applications are open until October 15, 2024.
Details on the program and the application process can be found on the DAAD website.
In the winter semester 2024/25, 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@tum.de) by October 31, 2024, at the latest.
The advancement scholarship supports skilled workers with vocational training and several years of practical experience in their first university degree program.
A full-time degree program is supported with 992 euros per month plus 80 euros book allowance. In addition, there is a care allowance for children under 14 (160 euros per child). For part-time students, the subsidy is 3,045 euros per calendar year. The benefits are a lump sum and are not dependent on income.
Applications are open until December 2, 2024.
In cooperation with the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region Top-level Sports Scholarship, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation supports top-level athletes who are studying at Heilbronn universities with non-material and material support. Scholarship holders receive individual support from top-level sports advisors, mentors, or tutors; in addition, they are given 100 euros per month.
The prerequisite for receiving the scholarship is enrollment, admission, or application to study in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree program with the goal of graduation, or enrollment for a doctorate at one of the Heilbronn partner universities, including TUM’s Heilbronn campus, as well as meeting at least one of the listed criteria with a focus on outstanding performance:
- Practice of a sport with assignment to a DOSB national base (BSP), BSP-like performance center, or sponsored by the Dietmar Hopp Foundation
- Federal squad status (Olympic squad/A-squad, perspective squad/B-squad, junior squad 1/C-squad, junior squad 2/DC-squad)
- Federal association assessment with target perspective
- Bundesliga players
of all sports organized as an association within the DOSB.
Details on how to apply can be found at www.spitzensport-stipendium.de/bewerbung.
For TUM students at the Heilbronn campus, the application deadline is January 15, 2025.
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 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, 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).