DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is a registered members association made up of German institutions of higher education and student bodies. DAAD provides young people with the opportunity to gain international academic and research experience in Germany. Since it was founded in 1925, DAAD has provided funding to more than 1.9 million scholars in Germany and abroad.

DAAD has invited UC Irvine to nominate one priority candidate for the Study Scholarship and/or Research Grant-One Year Grant programs. Candidates who aren’t selected as UC Irvine’s priority applicant are still able to apply; however, they will run in the open competition with candidates with all over North America. DAAD also offers many additional opportunities for students to study or do research in Germany which students are free to apply for directly. For information on our DAAD funding please visit the Scholarship Database.

Study Scholarships are available to highly qualified final year undergraduate students or those who have received an undergraduate degree of all disciplines for a full master’s degree program at a German university, or for study at a German university as part of a postgraduate or master’s degree program completed in the home country.
Research Grants-One Year Grants are available to highly qualified candidates who have completed a master’s degree or in exceptional cases a bachelor’s degree at the latest by the time they begin their grant-supported research in Germany.

Important Dates

Call for nominations: September 5, 2023
UCI Submission Deadline (for priority candidate consideration): October 20, 2023
DAAD External Deadlines: November 3, 2023

*Please note: applicants for the Short-Term Research Grant and applicants in the artistic fields do not apply via the internal process and should follow application instructions on the DAAD website.

Eligibility Criteria

German language ability is not a requirement for this grant. Students should demonstrate language skills commensurate with their study and research needs. German universities are increasingly offering courses of study that are conducted in foreign languages and because DAAD wants to support such developments, applications may also be submitted for these programs.

Candidates will be evaluated on:

General and subject-related preparedness, and suitability of the applicant
Subject-related quality, preparation, and feasibility of the proposal
Reasons for wanting to study/conduct research in Germany
Quality of reference/recommendation letter

Nomination Process

Applicants should submit the following by the UCI internal deadline of October 20, 2023:

Submit all requested documents via the DAAD online-portal
Send the reference form (available on portal) to your professors and ask them to email a signed copy to Turner Dahl at tdahl@uci.edu
Once the applicant has submitted all required documents via the online portal, a PDF file of the application summary will become available. Please send this to Turner Dahl (tdahl@uci.edu) at the Graduate Division.

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Contact

Questions should be directed to Turner Dahl at tdahl@uci.edu.