Scholarships and Funding

New Zealand-German Exchange Programme for Teaching Assistants (PAD)

Application Deadline: 15 March 2012

The German Education Exchange Service – Pädagogischer Austauschdienst (PAD) – is offering 12 scholarships for New Zealand Teaching Assistants to spend 9 months in different German schools between End of August/Beginning of September 2012 and 31 May 2013. The foreign language assistants work at schools – normally at secondary school level – and assist with the teaching of their native language for up to 12 hours per week. The scholarship amount will be € 800,- per month and up to € 1000,- for travel expenses.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

The DAAD is Germany's largest scholarship-awarding organisation and runs several programmes supporting academic exchange between Germany and all parts of the world.

For further information regarding  scholarship programmes for New Zealand & the Pacific Islands please visit:

Stipendiat Zhu Jun, Prof. Jürgen Krause, Uni Göttingen 2010

Scholarship programmes: opportunities for the best minds

The Federal Foreign Office funds a variety of scholarship programmes, which are important for the implementation of its research and academic relations policy. The programmes enable the top international specialists of tomorrow to undertake periods of study or research in Germany. At the same time, they lay the foundation for research partnerships with the world’s best minds. Jun Zhu, a lawyer from China and doctoral student in Göttingen, is one of them. Like many highly qualified young graduates from abroad, he receives financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Scholarship programmes

Professor Michael Werner and Nicolas Escach from CIERA, Paris

Centers for German and European Studies: A lively, borderless knowledge network

They are important institutions for research on Germany and Europe and drivers of innovation in academic training: the 15 Centers for German and European Studies in eleven countries focus on contemporary issues that transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines. The aim is to educate a young generation of experts on Germany and Europe that will work to achieve international understanding and cooperation. They link the academic, political and public spheres in the country where they are based through their focus on Germany and Europe. Within the framework of its research and academic relations policy the Federal Foreign Office promotes the Centers through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Centers for German and European Studies

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) is a non-profit foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany for the promotion of international research cooperation at the highest level. It enables highly qualified scholars from abroad to carry out research projects in Germany. It also promotes the ensuing academic contacts.

For further information, please contact Prof. Schwerdtfeger  

or visit the following website

Erasmus Mundus

The Erasmus Mundus programme is a cooperation and mobility programme aiming to promote intercultural understanding between EU member countries and third countries on the level of higher education. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and offers EU-funded scholarships for third country nationals participating in these Masters Courses.

For further information, please visit the following website

List of other organisations in Germany providing support opportunities for foreign members of institutions of higher education.

Other organisations and scholarships

Other organisations in Germany provide support opportunities for foreign members of institutions of higher education as well.

Scholarships and Funding