Other scholarships, prizes and competitions
Numerous institutions award scholarships and prizes or hold competitions for students. Here you can find current announcements.
The Claussen Simon Foundation supports students of all disciplines who are beginning a Master’s program at a German university in the following semester. Students can apply for the program if they are doing voluntary work and will complete their Bachelor’s degree with a very good grade.
Applications for the winter semester 2024/25 are open until July 7, 2024.
With the DigitalChangeMakers program, the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung supports student projects that aim to promote student-centered digital transformation at universities.
The students selected are supported over the course of two semesters by an experienced team from the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, which networks them with university, education, and digitization experts and supports them in developing innovative ideas and projects through workshops, training opportunities, and exchange formats.
Details on the program and application can be found at www.hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/call-for-digitalchangemaker-2024-25/
Applications are open until July 24, 2024.
Randstad human resources consulting will provide financial support to a student with a migration background to make it easier for him or her to study or start a career. To this end, it is awarding a scholarship of 5,000 euros for the winter semester 2024/25. Another student can take part in an agility check worth 1,000 euros from Pawlik Consulting.
Applicants must have an immigrant background, i.e. they themselves or their parents must have immigrated to Germany from abroad, they must have their official, permanent residence in Germany and they must be enrolled at a German university for at least the third semester.
Applications are possible until July 31, 2024.
Details on the call for applications and application can be found at www.randstad.de/unternehmen/personalvermittlung/stipendium/ (German).
With the B-First scholarships, the Claussen-Simon Foundation supports students from homes without an academic background. Applications are open to first-time graduates in their 1st or 2nd semester of study who have a higher education entrance qualification with an average of no worse than 2.9.
Applications are open from July 15 until August 4, 2024.
Here you will find futher information (German).
The German University Foundation is awarding the Tandem Scholarship for educational advancers.
Students who will begin their studies in the winter semester of 2024/25 and are the first in their family to study, have a higher education entrance qualification with at least the equivalent of the grade “good” of the German Abitur and are engaged in volunteer work can apply for the scholarship. They will be provided with 1:1 mentoring by a university lecturer who is close to their subject and place of study, and two workshops on key skills per year, personal one-on-one coaching sessions with professional coaches during the study period, networking events, specialist events and a study-related drawdown budget, as well as a digital package, will support their study and career success.
Applications are open until September 1, 2024.
All information about the scholarship and the application can be found at www.deutsche-universitaetsstiftung.de/stipendienprogramme/tandem/.
With this scholarship, Peek & Cloppenburg supports students aged between 20 and 30 living in Germany who aspire to a management position.
The company is looking for concrete ideas and strategies aimed at creating a working world in which young leaders are the rule rather than the exception. Particular emphasis is placed on sustainable and implementable corporate strategies, inclusion measures, proposals for optimizing management processes and approaches for further training and mentoring. Applicants should submit a corresponding concept of at least 400 words and a maximum of two A4 pages.
With the start of the winter semester 2024/25, a total of five students will be supported with a one-off grant of 2,500 euros.
Applications are possible until September 30, 2024.
Details on the call for proposals and application can be found at www.peek-cloppenburg.de/de/young-leadership-of-tomorrow.
The Landwirtschaftliche Rentenverein e.V. supports Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in the fields of Agriculture and Forestry at German universities and universities of applied sciences. Topics such as sustainability and risk prevention in agriculture and forestry are of particular interest.
Sponsored students receive a one-off payment of 500 euros. In addition, one Bachelor’s thesis and one Master’s thesis will be selected once a year from among all completed theses submitted, for which an additional grant of 1,000 euros will be awarded.
To apply, please send a synopsis (also of theses that have already been started) with a letter of motivation to info. @rentenverein.com
Applications for the first half-year are possible until May 31, 2024, and for the second half-year until October 15, 2024.
Further information can be found at www.rentenverein.com/stipendium-2.html.
Rimon supports interns whose internship is not or hardly paid. The scholarship is aimed in particular at people who want to do an internship in the fields of environment, education or health.
Scholarship holders are supported with 1,000 euros per month for the duration of the internship (up to three months).
Applicants do not have to be accepted for the internship at the time of application, but the scholarship will only be paid out if the internship actually begins.
Please send your application letter and CV to kontakt. In your application letter, please elaborate on what internship you would like to do and why, and what personal or professional goal this will bring you closer to. @rimon.group
Application deadline: November 30, February 28, May 31, August 31. The decision to award the scholarship will be made at the end of the month following the application deadline.
For more information, visit www.rimon.group/stipendium.
The Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency offers various scholarships for participation in language courses, summer and winter schools as well as study and research stays and internships in the Czech Republic. For more information, visit www.btha.cz/de/.
With “Böckler-Aktion Bildung”, the Hans Böckler Foundation awards scholarships to young people who could not afford to study otherwise. Students who are on their way to obtaining their high school diploma (Abitur) or entrance qualification for university of applied sciences (Fachhochschulreife) can apply. Applications are also open to those who have only recently qualified for university entrance.
Applications can be submitted up to three months before the end of the standard period of study.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation supports around 1400 students and doctoral candidates of all disciplines and nationalities each year, both in universities and universities of applied sciences in Germany.
Scholarship holders are expected to demonstrate outstanding academic or scientific achievements, social commitment and political interest, as well as an active engagement with the Foundation's core values of ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice.
Applications are generally open March 1 and September 1 of each year.
All information can be found at www.boell.de/en/scholarships.
With its graduation grant, the E.W.-Kuhlmann-Stiftung supports students who are about to graduate and are dependent on financial support. They can receive an interest-free loan of up to €2000.
Applications can be submitted continuously.
Insights technology provider SUPRA is supporting scholarship recipients by funding a survey panel with 1,000 participants worth 3,500 euros.
Students of economics, marketing, market research, business information systems, psychology, social sciences or other similar subjects are eligible to apply.
To enter, applicants must submit an essay of 1,000 to 1,500 words on one of the categories (1) new pricing strategies for consumer products, (2) leveraging tech for better pricing, (3) innovative insights and research to find better pricing, (4) the future of pricing psychology or (5) AI methods in pricing.
Applications are accepted annually until August 30.
For more information, visit https://supra.tools/scholarship.
TUM Asia provides successful applicants with a one-time grant of up to 50% of the tuition fees for one of the following Master's programs: Aerospace Engineering, Green Electronics, Industrial Chemistry, Integrated Circuit Design, and Rail, Transport and Logistics.
Applicants must email TUM Asia Admissions Advisors (events(at)tum-asia.edu.sg) and include this e-flyer, which also provides more detailed information about the TUM Asia Scholarship, to receive a special code. With this code, they can fill out an online application on this website. In doing so, they must also submit an essay of no more than 500 words in which applicants justify why they should receive the TUM Asia Scholarship.
Applications are accepted annually between October 1 and March 31.
The Stahlmann Foundation offers a housing scholarship to students who are younger than 25, have a good command of written and spoken German, have a clear idea of their educational goal, are striving to achieve this goal at a German educational institution, are in some form of need, and are willing to make a commitment to the Foundation.
The scholarship covers the rent for a shared apartment and the guarantee for the rent deposit for the current semester in each case; it is possible to extend the scholarship to a maximum of six semesters in total if studies proceed successfully.
For the application a curriculum vitae in German, a letter of motivation in German, the last certificate of the highest educational qualification, two independent confidential recommendations in German or English with contact information from the home country (in case of Ukrainian applicants also from another country) as well as the admission of a German educational institution are required.
Here you will find further information (German).