Scholarship - Information in English

Student groups that are particularly important to us:

Women, students from STEM subjects, students at universities of applied sciences, first-time graduates (= students who are the first person in their family to attend higher education), students from immigrant families

We expect: 

• Enrolment at a state or state-recognised university, higher education institution or university of applied sciences
• Proof of sufficient German language skills
• Good performance in school or with course of studies
• Socio-political commitment
• Identification with the fundamental values of social democracy

Requirements for foreign students:

• You are already studying in Germany at the time of your application.
• Bachelor’s students must submit their first graded performance records.
• German language skills are absolutely necessary and must be proven.

Requirements for Germans, foreign nationals with a German university entrance qualification, and refugees:

• You have German citizenship.
• You obtained your access to higher education in Germany, but do not have a German passport.
• You are a refugee.

Foreign scholarship holders receive:

• 934 € per month (students) / 1.200 € per month (postgraduates)
• 276 € of family allowance, if applicable
• refund of health care costs
• any income exceeding 400 € per month will be credited against the scholarship.

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung does not provide funding for:

• Further training as a psychological psychotherapist
• Short-term stays abroad
• Project proposals
• Short-term course of study (less than 3 semesters, for example 2-semester Master’s degree programmes)
• Research visits
• Trainee programmes
• University preparatory courses
• Medical studies up to an including the preliminary (medical) examination
• Doctoral degree and further education and training in the medical field
• Training to become a physiotherapist
• Final stages of a degree course/doctoral degree
• Postdoctoral projects
• Study abroad programmes outside the EU
• Extra-occupational or part-time course of study

Unless you already have scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, we do not provide funding for:

• Language courses
• Second degrees

Applications will be accepted no later than

• diploma / magister / state examination: by the end of 6th semester
• Bachelor/ undergraduate programmes: until 3 semesters before finishing the standard period of study
  (if 6 semesters by the end  of 3rd semester; if 7 semesters by the end  of 4rd semester)
• postgraduate/ Master programmes: by the end of 1st semester

Applications are submitted in German because German language skills are a requirement for a scholarship.

All information about the application process can be found here (in German).

Application deadlines can be found in the scholarship programme descriptions.