DAAD/EPOS 2025 Scholarships for Young Professionals from Developing Countries

The “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) has selected the MSc Environmental Governance (MEG)  as a development-related postgraduate course and so the programme can offer a limited number of EPOS Scholarships. Candidates will be selected first by the programme committee of the MEG programme. In a second step, DAAD will check our selection carefully and decide upon the candidates.

This is a highly competitive application process with strict requirements. Scholarship applicants must fulfill both the DAAD EPOS requirements AND the admission criteria for the MEG programme.

• Table of Content
• About German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals
• Requirements for DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

DAAD scholarship in Germany is a private, federally funded and state-funded, self governing national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany, representing 365 German higher education institutions (100 universities and technical universities, 162 general universities of applied sciences, and 52 colleges of music and art) [2003]. The DAAD itself does not offer programs of study or courses, but awards competitive, merit-based grants for use toward study and/or research in Germany at any of the accredited German institutions of higher education. It also awards grants to German...... continue reading

DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals

Requirements for DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals Qualification

Young professionals from developing countries (DAC countries) who meet all of the following requirements:

• have an academic degree, that is not older than six years at the time of application (October 2025)
• have a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience (post Bachelor, at the time of application); internships and volontary work are not accepted

Note that employment in academia, like teaching and research at a university or research institute, is not considered relevant work experience for this scholarship type; only in very exceptional cases can it be accepted.

• have an academic degree above average (upper third)
• having resided in Germany for no more than 15 months before applying

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Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, Universität Freiburg Scholarship webpage