DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) 2025

DAAD wants to increase the number of international doctoral candidates in structured graduate schools at German universities.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineNot Specified
• Study LevelPhD
• SponsorDAAD
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• Monthly payments of 1,300 euros
• Payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover
• Travel lump sum (depending on country of origin)
• Annual research allowance of 460 euros

Under certain circumstances, grant holders may receive the following additional benefits:

• monthly rent subsidy
• monthly allowance for accompanying members of family (about 200 euros child allowance per child; about 275 euros marriage allowance)

Additionally, the host graduate school can receive an annual material resource and supervision allowance (1000 euros).

Requirements

• Excellently-qualified doctoral candidates and young academics and scientists who have completed a Master's degree or Diploma, or in exceptional cases a Bachelor's degree at the latest by the time they begin their scholarship – depending on the graduate school.

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Application Deadline

How To Apply

GSSP is no programme you can apply for directly!
Only after applying at a participating graduate school (see www.daad.de/gssp for the list of participating graduate school you can apply to and for further information) and being nominated for a scholarship by said graduate school, you are asked to upload your application in the DAAD portal.

Further information:

Direct applications for GSSP without being nominated by a participating graduate school will be rejected without further notice!

Contact [email protected] to make an enquiry.

For more information, kindly visit DAAD scholarship webpage.