Individual scholarships

Students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and staff at KIT can apply for a variety of individual scholarships. These grants support stays abroad for study, research, teaching, or professional development.
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Study and Research Abroad

KIT stands for openness and international academic exchange. The International Affairs Office (DE INTL) offers a wiede range of opportunities for global cooperation and networking, supporting students, researchers and staff in gaining international experience.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the world's largest funding organization for international academic exchange. Its work goes far beyond scholarships: it offers a variety of programs supporting study and research stays in developing coutries. You can find a comprehensive overview in the DAAD scholarship database.

DE INTL is the point of contact for third-party funding applications related to DAAD programs.

 

Opportunities for KIT Students

International experience is a key qualification for future leaders. During your studies at KIT, you have access to a wide range of options for studying or doing an internship abroad, or even combining both through the Erasmus program, various EU mobility schemes, or the KIT exchange program.

In addition, there are further funding opportunities such as the Graduation Grant Program, as well as helpful information and guidance on how to organize a stay abroad.

 

Opportunities for KIT Researchers

Exchanges in teaching and research are central to KIT's mission. In addition to various mobility opportunities and resources provided by the International Scholars & Welcome Office (IScO), the ERASMUS teaching mobility program enables academic staff to go abroad for teaching assignments, often in combination with short-term research stays.

Further details about the ERASMUS program, as well as teaching, research and professional developement opportunities abroad can be found through the International Scholars & Welcome Office (IScO), the KIT International Strategy Fund or the International Affairs Office (INTL).

 

Opportunities for KIT Staff

Internalization is also becoming increasingly important for KIT's administrative and technical staff. The ERASMUS+ staff mobility program offers employees the chance to gain international experience through professional training and development abroad.

 

Opportunities for KIT Students

Individual sponsorship

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bessel Research Award

Academics from abroad, regardless of their discipline or nationality, may be nominated for a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, provided that they have received their doctoral degree within the past 18 years. The award amount totals 45,000 EUR. 

Georg Forster Research Award

Academics from developing and transition countries (excluding People's Republic of China and India) of all disciplines may be nominated for a Georg Forster Research Award. The objective of the Georg Forster Research Award is to honor the recipients’ life’s work to date. The award amount totals EUR 60,000. 

Konrad Adenauer Research Award for Canadian Researchers

The award honors researchers from Canada whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and beyond, whose personality and research contribute to the academic and cultural exchange between the Federal Republic of Germany and Canada, and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge academic achievements in the future. The award amount totals EUR 60,000. 

 

The Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa in Israel is offering various internships, doctoral fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, and places on the Master's program in Modern German and European Studies this semester.

With Lehramt.International, the DAAD offers two new scholarship programs that help teacher training students and graduates of teacher training courses to experience schools and teaching in another country. Based on the experiences gained in the pilot phase in the first year, the application procedures have been adjusted. [More]

The program promotes mobility and short-term research stays for the exchange of project participants from the participating partner institutions, especially young scientists. The call for applications has already begun for Australia, France (PROCOPE and PROCOPE PLUS), Hong Kong, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, with other countries to follow. Please note: PPP China and PPP Italy will not be advertised until further notice. The call for applications for PPP Argentina has been delayed. [More]

The Johann Gottfried Herder Program supports and arranges the deployment of retired university lecturers from German universities at universities abroad. It is aimed at interested parties from all disciplines who are interested in a longer-term (at least one semester) teaching stay at a host university, in particular those foreign universities with which DAAD projects or consolidated cooperation relationships with German universities exist. [More]

As a selected scout, you have the opportunity to nominate up to three outstanding young international researchers with whom you would like to collaborate for a Humboldt research fellowship. Each year, the foundation selects up to 40 scouts in a competitive peer review process. [More]