For anyone interested in studying or conducting research in Germany, funding is available through DAAD, the German Exchange Service (https://www.daad.org/). UIC has an arrangement with DAAD, allowing our students to be evaluated by a campus committee, who provides an endorsement and ranking, which historically has secured funding for at least one UIC student. The campus deadline is October 19th for this opportunity.
DAAD has dozens of different funding opportunities with various deadlines. Viable student applicants come from all disciplines, from Art History and Germanic Studies to Mechanical Engineering and Public Health. Marie Khan will be holding an information session on Tuesday, September 13th in UH 650 at noon. Refreshments will be provided.
At this workshop, Marie Khan will go over the following three particular options DAAD funds, and the award process:
- Study Scholarship for Architecture: Deadline is September 30th, 2016 (https://www.daad.org/?p=gradstudy); there is no campus committee evaluation for these applications and they are mailed overseas to Bonn, Germany
- Study Scholarship for Fine Art, Design, Film, Music, and Performing Arts: Deadline is October 31st, 2016 (https://www.daad.org/?p=gradstudy); there is no campus committee evaluation for these applications and they are mailed overseas to Bonn, Germany
- Study Scholarship for all other fields: UIC Deadline is October 19th, in preparation for the national deadline of Nov. 4th, 2016 (https://www.daad.org/?p=gradstudy)
- Research Grant for short/long term stay, for all other fields: UIC Deadline is October 19th, in preparation for the national deadline of Deadline of Nov. 4th, 2016 (https://www.daad.org/gradresearch)
Some eligibility points to consider:
-applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents
-applicants do not necessarily need to be fluent in German
-for arts applicants, unfortunately, they are not able to be evaluated by our preliminary UIC committee. Anyone interested in this route however Marie Khan would be happy to meet with regardless
Please contact both Beth Powers (bpowers@uic.edu) and Marie Khan (mkhanj@uic.edu) if you are an undergraduate planning to apply for the DAAD.
