Other scholarships, prizes and competitions

The advancement scholarship supports skilled workers with vocational training and several years of practical experience in their first university degree program.

A full-time degree program is supported with 992 euros per month plus 80 euros book allowance. In addition, there is a care allowance for children under 14 (160 euros per child). For part-time students, the subsidy is 3,045 euros per calendar year. The benefits are a lump sum and are not dependent on income.

Applications are open until December 2, 2024.

Here you will find further information.

In cooperation with the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region Top-level Sports Scholarship, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation supports top-level athletes who are studying at Heilbronn universities with non-material and material support. Scholarship holders receive individual support from top-level sports advisors, mentors, or tutors; in addition, they are given 100 euros per month.

The prerequisite for receiving the scholarship is enrollment, admission, or application to study in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree program with the goal of graduation, or enrollment for a doctorate at one of the Heilbronn partner universities, including TUM’s Heilbronn campus, as well as meeting at least one of the listed criteria with a focus on outstanding performance:

• Practice of a sport with assignment to a DOSB national base (BSP), BSP-like performance center, or sponsored by the Dietmar Hopp Foundation
• Federal squad status (Olympic squad/A-squad, perspective squad/B-squad, junior squad 1/C-squad, junior squad 2/DC-squad)
• Federal association assessment with target perspective
• Bundesliga players

of all sports organized as an association within the DOSB.
 

Details on how to apply can be found at www.spitzensport-stipendium.de/bewerbung.

For TUM students at the Heilbronn campus, the application deadline is January 15, 2025.

The Government of Upper Franconia awards scholarships from the Heilsbronn Scholarship Fund in the form of a one-time payment to talented, worthy and needy students at a German university. Students who are of the Protestant faith, have German citizenship, and reside in the former Principality of Bayreuth are eligible to apply. You can find the list of the corresponding municipalities here (PDF, 25 KB).

Here you can find the application for the scholarship (German) (PDF, 434 KB).

Applications can bes submitted until 31.01.2025.

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 kontaktspam prevention@rimon.group. 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.

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.

Here you will find further information.

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.

Here you will find further information.

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, Logistics Engineering and Management, Rail and Urban Transport, and Sustainable Food.

Detailed information on the TUM Asia Scholarship and how to apply can be found at tum-asia.edu.sg/admissions/graduate/scholarships/.

Applications can be submitted until the application deadline for the respective degree program.

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).