DAAD Scholarships for International Students
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Germany · open to applicants worldwide
Family of German scholarships for international graduates, doctoral candidates and researchers to study or research in Germany, including EPOS development-related master's programmes and full doctoral grants.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
What it offers: Monthly stipend, e.g. €992 for students and €1,300 for doctoral candidates, plus travel allowance.
Also: health/accident/liability insurance in many programmes; research allowance and family benefits in some programmes; language course funding.
Who can apply: Each programme sets its own target countries, criteria and deadline in its call for applications.
Free to apply.
Programme-specific annual deadlines listed in the DAAD scholarship database.
How to apply: through daad portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: cv, motivation letter, research proposal, references, transcript.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “currently, for example, € 992 for students and € 1,300 for doctoral/PhD students”
Who can apply
- Open to students, researchers
- Each programme sets its own target countries, criteria and deadline in its call for applications.
What you will need
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Personal statement / SOPOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Research proposalUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Recommendation letters (drafts for your referees)Upload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- TranscriptOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (daad portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) without your tap.
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