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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Study Visits to Germany for Groups of Foreign Students

Overview

The program aims to provide students with subject-related knowledge by arranging appropriate visits, tours and information meetings (Study Visits) or by organising subject-related seminars and practical courses (e.g. specialist courses, block seminars, workshops) at the invitation of a German university. This university is also responsible for organising practical courses with universities, companies and, possibly, public institutions (Study Seminars and Practicals). The program is also intended to facilitate meetings with German students, academics and researchers to establish and maintain contacts between German and foreign universities as well as to give students a greater understanding of and insight (regional and area studies) into economic, political and cultural life in Germany. This part must not make up more than one third of the funding term.

In the case of Study Seminars and Practicals, the programme strives for reciprocity, although this is not a condition for the award of funding. This means that funding can initially be provided for visits in one direction only.

Cultural events (e.g. concert tours) can be funded when the focus is on meeting students and university teachers from a relevant academic field and this academic relevance is appropriately documented.

Funding cannot be provided for annual repeat visits (by applicants, faculties or departments); each applicant, faculty or department can only be considered for a maximum of one application per year. Funding cannot be provided for required/obligatory excursions or for measures that have already been completed.


Duration

Study visits, study seminars or practicals should last no less than 7 days. Funding is available for a maximum of 12 days (including travel days), although the visits themselves may last longer.

Value

The trip is independently organised and carried out by the group or by the applicant (lead) university teacher. The DAAD grant is provided as project funding, paid as a flat-rate sum of 50 EUR per participant and day to subsidise travel and other costs The DAAD also takes out health, accident and public/private liability insurance for each funded group.

The DAAD regrets that it is unable to pay any international travel costs.

Requirements

Funding can be provided for groups of students who are fully matriculated in their second semester or higher in a relevant degree programme at a foreign university and who are travelling in a group headed by a university teacher. Subject to approval by the DAAD, individual doctoral students can also be funded. To ensure that the conditions are given for a successful study trip, all the participants should, as far as possible, have a common level of language skills in a language of relevance to the programme. Groups should be made up of at least 10 and must not, as a rule, exceed 15 persons. In addition, funding can be provided for one university teacher as group leader.

Application papers

A full funding application includes:

Application form (available here) including budget and list of participants (DAAD Portal)
Statement of reasons and description of programme content outlining exactly what the group wishes to visit and view, both in terms of subject-specific (academic) content and German regional/area studies content (vague or generally-worded descriptions such as visits to museums, universities are not acceptable on their own)
Schedule (in tabular form)

Description of the contentual preparation for the trip (e.g. preparatory seminars)
Proof of contacts on the German side (in the case of Study Visits), especially in higher education (e.g. by submitting copies of correspondence - invitations, confirmations). Proof of contacts on the foreign side (in the case of Study Seminars/Practicals), commenting on the significance of the proposed Study Seminar/Practical and how it is integrated into the academic development (programme path) of the foreign participants (general agreements, cooperation agreements, and similar documents do not, on their own, provide sufficient proof and can only be submitted to further document the existing contacts).

Application process

Applications are submitted online via the DAAD Portal.

Study Visits

Applications may be placed by university teachers from a foreign university. Please include a letter of recommendation from the DAAD Regional Office, DAAD Information Centre, or the German Embassy. The application deadlines at the DAAD in Bonn are binding.

Study Seminars and Practicals

Applications may be placed by university teachers from a German university. Please additionally advise the Akademisches Auslandsamt/International Office of your application.

The decision is made by a selection committee. Experience has shown that the limited financial resources mean that only a proportion of the applications that meet the programme's three funding goals can be approved. Preference is given to trips that are carried out in close cooperation with universities, academics, and students in Germany .

Applications must have been submitted via the DAAD Portal by the following deadlines at the latest:

1 February each year for trips starting from 1 June (The DAAD decides in mid-April)
1 May each year for trips starting from 1 September (The DAAD decides in mid-July).
1 November each year for trips starting from 1 March (The DAAD decides in mid-January)

Contact Details:
Ms Julia Löllgen
Telephone:+49 228 882 328
Fax: +49 228 882 9 328
E-Mail: loellgen@daad.de

Ms Katharina Klein
Telephone: +49 228 882 370
Fax: +49 228/882 9 370
E-Mail: k.klein@daad.de

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Referat 513
Kennedyallee 50
D-53175 Bonn

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