Partially Funded Scholarships for Refugees in Germany from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is calling refugees in Germany for various scholarship opportunities. These scholarships support undergraduate (Bachelor scholarships), graduate (Master scholarships), and postgraduate (PhD scholarships) students.

Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students:

• It enables committed young students to focus profoundly on their studies and to prepare for their future careers in the public and the private sector.

Scholarship for PhD candidates

• It supports socially and/or politically committed postgraduate students with excellent academic results, preparing these to take over responsibility and leadership respectively.

If you get one of these scholarships, you will have:

For scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students

• Financial support up to 649 Euros per month plus 300 Euro for study-related expenses (books, writing material etc.).
• Wide range of seminars on salient political, economic, academic, and cultural topics.
• Access to an extended network of fellow scholarship holders and over 13.000 alumni.
• Career counseling and support with your first steps into the labor market.

For scholarship for PhD candidates

• Financial support of 1350 Euros per month plus 100 Euro for research-related expenses (further allowances possible).
• Individual support and consultations in all matters regarding your PhD and scholarship. 
• Encounters with personalities from the public sector.
• Wide range of seminars on salient political, economic, academic, and cultural topics.
• Career counseling and support with your first steps into the labor market.

You must have:

1. Open-mindedness, high commitment, and a wide range of interests.
2. Above-average learning or academic achievements at school or university.
3. Social engagement and willingness to assume social and political responsibility.
4. You can apply only after 15 months from the date you originally applied for asylum in Germany.
5. Besides the aforementioned criteria, the proposal of PhD candidates should fulfill the following criteria:

• High actuality and social and/or political relevance of your topic.
• An overview of the main problems and solution approaches.
• Research design and methods.
• Tentative timeframe of PhD project.

About Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung:

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a political foundation. In Germany, 16 regional offices offer a wide variety of civic education conferences and events. Its offices abroad are in charge of over 200 projects in more than 120 countries. The foundation’s headquarters are situated in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, and also in Berlin. There, an additional conference center, named “The Academy”, was opened in 1998. Nationally and internationally, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation is committed to achieving and maintaining peace, freedom, and justice through political education. It promotes and preserves free democracy, the social market economy, and the development and consolidation of the value consensus.

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