Open calls for DAAD funding
The Call for the International Deans’ Course for Africa is out. This intensive Training Course is part of the DIES programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies), which is jointly coordinated by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German
Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Course Content, Methodology and Schedule
The key objective of the course is to bring together a group of about 30 newly elected deans, vice-deans and heads of departments from universities in the African region and to prepare them for the challenges of holding a dean’s position in a changing higher education landscape. Issues such as strategic faculty management, financial management, quality assurance and leadership will be key parts of this course. A soft skills training and exchange with German university leaders about higher education reforms will be included as well.
The course starts in June 2025 with Part I held on-site in Germany which aims to introduce important new concepts and tools in higher education management. The methodology will be strictly practice oriented and the use of case studies offers a forum to reflect on professional experiences of the course attendees. Thus, active participation will be necessary and the participants are expected to reflect on their respective working environment and to develop a Project Action Plan (PAP) at the end of this first contact phase.
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PAPs should address individual reform projects which all participants are asked to implement during various stages of the course. The milestones of the PAPs will be further discussed during the intermediate virtual workshop (Part II). Finally, Part III offers the opportunity to assess the progress of the projects and to discuss lessons learnt among the group. Both, Part II and III include additional sessions on relevant higher education management topics.
Part I: ten days seminar in Osnabrück and Berlin, Germany from June 15th to June 28th, 2025
Part II: five days online seminar from November 10th to 14th, 2025
Part III: five days seminar in Ghana from February 9th to 13th, 2026 (tbc)
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This programme aims to deepen knowledge of the German language (general language, technical language) and regional studies.
Who can apply?
- Students in undergraduate (e.g. bachelor’s) and master’s degree programs in all disciplines are eligible to apply.
- Undergraduate students must have completed at least two academic years by the time the scholarship period begins.
What can be funded?
- The programme funds attendance of language, regional studies and technical language courses offered by state or state-recognised German universities and by affiliated language schools.
- Course providers and courses offered can be found on the DAAD website at: www.daad.de/hsk-kursliste.
- The courses are taught exclusively in German.
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The deadline for application is 1 December 2024.
You can join this web seminar to get more information about the opportunity, as well as to hear the experience of one of our alumni.
The In-Country/In-Region scholarship programme aims at fostering strong, internationally oriented higher education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with the capacity to contribute to sustainable development. To this end, scholarships are granted for postgraduate and doctorate programmes for training of future professionals and managerial staff in developing countries, in particular university teachers.
By training future academic and professional leaders, the programme contributes to the following long-term impacts:
- Qualified professionals’ involvement in the solution of development-related problems in developing countries
- Graduates strengthening education and research in developing countries
- Structural strengthening and regional networking of partner institutions and partner universities
To achieve these long-term impacts, the following outcomes have been formulated as programme objectives:
Programme objective 1: Graduates are qualified to take on responsible positions in or for their region of origin. Supported study courses equip graduates for taking on positions of responsibility in development-related areas in teaching and research.
Programme objective 2: The participation of women and underprivileged groups is reinforced.
Programme objective 3: Organisational, financial and personal capacities of partner institutions are strengthened.
This programme strongly encourages mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans to study in participating host institutions within the Sub-Saharan region.
The deadline for Application is 21 November 2024
We are happy to announce that the Call for Applications for the DIES Training Course “Management of Internationalisation” 2025/26 has now been published. Please find all information here
Objective
The key objective of the training course is to qualify university staff (either International Office staff or higher education managers responsible for coordinating international activities) from selected countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to manage processes and tasks of internationalisation in the area of higher education. The programme will enable the participants to build up improved and more effective structures and procedures of internationalisation at their home universities. The programme neither aims at universities with an already very developed stage of internationalisation, nor has as a main purpose to provide knowledge for proposal writing for third party funding.
The programme consists of three workshops and the work on a specific project of internationalisation.
The deadline for application is 20th of October 2024, 12.00h Central European Time.
Further information on our DIES training course can be found here: https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/universitaet/international/dies#c52413
For further questions, please send an e-mail to dies-info@zv.uni-hannover.de
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) are jointly organising the eighteenth DIES University Leadership and Management Training Course UNILEAD in Oldenburg, enabling young managers at higher education institutions in developing and emerging countries to successfully tackle every-day challenges.
In order to do so, the programme brings together the topics Project Management, Strategic Management & Academic Leadership and Human Resource Management with individual and practice-oriented change projects of each participant. So far, more than 500 participants from over 50 countries have taken part in the UNILEAD Training Courses.
Developed in 2008, UNILEAD is part of the DIES programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies), which is jointly coordinated by the DAAD and German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) since 2001 and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Further information on the DAAD DIES Programme and the DIES Training Courses can be found at
www.daad.de/dies/en.
Strict closing date of the application is October 15, 2024, 10.00 am Central European Summer Time.
Open call for Applications for Research Grants to Germany 2025/2026
The following scholarships are available, with different deadlines:
➢ Research grants in Germany
➢ Research scholarships – doctorates in Germany
➢Research grants – Bi-nationally supervised doctorates / Cotutelle
➢Study scholarships – Master’s/postgraduate studies in the field of architecture
➢Study scholarships – Master’s/postgraduate studies in the fields of Fine Arts, Design, Visual Communication and Film
➢Study scholarships – Master’s/postgraduate studies in the field of music
➢Study scholarships – Master’s/postgraduate studies in the field of performing arts
➢Study scholarships – Master’s program for MINT subjects
➢Surplace/third country program
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