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German Academic Exchange Service

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German Academic Exchange Service
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
AbbreviationDAAD
Formation1925
TypeEingetragener Verein (registered association)
HeadquartersBonn, Germany
President
Joybrato Mukherjee
Budget
EUR 471m (2015)[1]
Staff843[2]
Websitewww.daad.de

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; German: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), founded in 1925, is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation.[3] Since the 1st of January 2020, the president is Joybrato Mukherjee.[4]

Organisation

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DAAD is a private, federally funded and state-funded, self-governing national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany, representing 365 German higher education institutions (100 universities and technical universities, 162 general universities of applied sciences, and 52 colleges of music and art) [2003].

The DAAD itself does not offer programs of study or courses, but awards competitive, merit-based grants for use toward study and/or research in Germany at any of the accredited German institutions of higher education. It also awards grants to German students, doctoral students, and scholars for studies and research abroad. With an annual budget of 522 million Euros and supporting approximately 140.000 individuals world-wide,[5] the DAAD is in fact the largest such academic grant organisation worldwide[6][7] The organisation was founded on 1 January 1925 but closed down in 1945, only to be re-founded again in 1950.[3]

Headquarters and regional offices

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The DAAD headquarters are in Bonn and there are 15 international regional branch offices that exist to provide information and advice on study and research opportunities, as well as available grants, tailored to students and academics within their region.

Logo for the DAAD's 100th anniversary in 2025.

The DAAD New York office serves residents of the United States and Canada who are enrolled or employed at American and Canadian higher education institutions and would like to study or pursue research in Germany. From the perspective of this side of the exchange, the DAAD's mission is to facilitate American and Canadian students' access to the distinguished German institutions of higher education and research—from research universities (Universitäten) to universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschule), colleges of music and art, libraries and archives, and research institutions such as the Max Planck Institutes.

DAAD headquarters in Bonn

DAAD scholarships and programmes

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DAAD official reception in 1961

The DAAD scholarship grants[8] administered by the DAAD abroad are available to students of all academic disciplines and at each academic degree level, including undergraduates, graduating undergraduates and recent graduates with a BA, master's degree students, doctoral students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars, and faculty.

The DAAD worldwide network also includes around 50 information centers[9] and around 450 DAAD lecturer positions. DAAD scholarship is one of the top scholarships offered by European country Germany for outstanding international students. Every year Students are selected on merit basis and offered a DAAD scholarship to study postgraduate degree masters and PhD in German universities.

Notable DAAD Alumni

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Additionally, several Nobel Prize Winners are DAAD alumni.[3] For example, Günter Blobel (1999),[13] Gao Xingjian (2000),[14] Wolfgang Ketterle (2001),[15] Imre Kertész (2002), Wangari Maathai (2004),[16] Herta Müller (2009),[17] Mario Vargas Llosa (2009), Svetlana Alexievich (2015), Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (2017),[18] Olga Tokarczuk (2018), Peter Handke (2019)[19] and others.

Funding

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The DAAD is mainly funded by the German government and the European Union. In 2017, the DAAD received 522 million Euro.[6]

Leadership for Syria Programme

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During the fall of 2014, the DAAD, supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, launched a program called the Leadership for Syria.[20] The declared aim of the program was to create "a select elite among Syria's future leadership" for "active participation in organizing" post-war Syria.[20] In the initial stage of the program, 271 Syrians seen as suitable for university scholarships were chosen from potential candidates who were "either still living in Syria or in one of the bordering countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey), or who had fled to Germany".[20] The former were then brought to Germany to join those participants who were already there. The scholarships were to various universities throughout Germany. The German Foreign Office funded the bulk of the scholarships (200) with the balance being sponsored by Baden Württemberg (50) and North Rhine Westphalia (21).[20] The scholarship curriculum included an introductory language course for those students who were not already fluent in, or otherwise had no prior knowledge of, German. Alongside this was a concomitant obligatory element intended to imbue the planned future Syrian elite with the "fundamental and practical knowledge and skills in political sciences, economics, social sciences, as well as operational competence."[20]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "DAAD annual report 2015". Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  2. ^ "DAAD annual report 2012" (PDF).
  3. ^ a b c "History". www.daad.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
  4. ^ https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/71935-prof-dr-joybrato-mukherjee-zum-neuen-daad-praesidenten-gewaehlt/
  5. ^ "Jahresbericht - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst". www.daad.de. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  6. ^ a b DAAD (2017). "Jahresbericht" (PDF). DAAD. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "Weiterer Aufwärtstrend bei Stipendien und Programmen: DAAD zieht positive Bilanz für den Wissenschaftsaustausch 2017 - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst". www2.daad.de. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  8. ^ "DAAD Scholarships 2023 - Study for Free in Germany". DAAD Scholarship 2023 - DAAD German Scholarship Application Call Letter.
  9. ^ "About DAAD". DAAD Office New York. 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  10. ^ "Michelle Bachelet". www.daad.de. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Chin, Unsuk | JetztMusik | SWR2". swr.online (in German). 2008-01-18. Archived from the original on 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  12. ^ The University of Adelaide: Researcher's Profile, retrieved 16 September 2016.
  13. ^ "DAAD, New York City: Sound Understanding - A Gala Concert in Carnegie Hall". www.eventme.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  14. ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm". www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  15. ^ "Wolfgang Ketterle | The Nobel Prize". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  16. ^ "Kenyan environmental Activist wins Nobel Peace Prize | Deutsche Welle DW". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  17. ^ "Informationsdienst Wissenschaft". idw-online.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  18. ^ "Friedensnobelpreis 2017: Für eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst". www2.daad.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  19. ^ "Literature Nobel Prizes go to DAAD-Alumni - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst". www2.daad.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  20. ^ a b c d e "Leadership for Syria". German-Foreign-Policy.com. German News Information Services GmbH. 18 December 2015. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
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