DAAD Kenya - German Academic Exchange Service

DAAD is pleased to invite former DAAD scholarship holders to submit applications for funding of small Alumni events. This invitation is extended to DAAD Alumni from Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia and the DR Congo. You may apply for funding of small Alumni events scheduled between the end of April and December 2026.

Germany's universities remain highly attractive to students from all over the world: in the 2024/25 winter semester, around 402,000 international students and doctoral candidates were enrolled at German universities – around six per cent more than in the previous year. This continues the upward trend of recent years, with more than half of international students enrolled in engineering and natural sciences. At the same time, dropout rates among international students are lower than previously assumed: their dropout rates are relatively close to those of German students. This is shown in the new edition of Wissenschaft weltoffen (Science Open to the World), published today by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in collaboration with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW).

In recent years, German universities have become important players in international scientific cooperation with countries in the Global South. These partnerships are part of an active foreign science policy and contribute to Germany's positioning in a changing world order. On 3 and 4 December, around 120 international participants will therefore discuss the future of university cooperation between development aid and equal partnership at a conference organised by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.