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DAAD GRADUATE AWARDS
Campus Deadline: Nov. 1, 2008
DAAD Application
Campus Cover Sheet for DAAD Award
For a number of years, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has offered Stanford University students special direct awards for study/research in Germany. This kind of direct exchange agreement exists between DAAD and approximately 50 U.S. universities, and provides approximately 100 awards nationwide each year. If you are enrolled at Stanford as a graduate or undergraduate, you must apply for these direct awards through the Overseas Resource Center.
Eligibility
Preliminary Steps
Your DAAD Application
Campus and National Review Process
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
- Bachlors Degree by the starting date of the grant.
- U.S. citizen. Foreign nationals may be able to apply if they have been full-time graduate students at Stanford for more than one year at the time of application. This does not apply to German citizens.
- Well-defined study/research project that makes a stay in Germany essential. Preference will be given to applicants who have been invited by a faculty member at a German university to study or do research in a particular department, institute, or laboratory.
- Adequate knowledge of the German language to carry out proposed research. Students who will enroll in courses at German universities must have completed at least two years of college-level German at the time of application and be willing to strengthen their language skills prior to the scholarship period.
- Applicants may not hold a DAAD grant and a grant from another German or German-American organization
PRELIMINARY STEPS
If you are interested in the DAAD awards you must apply through the Overseas Resource Center (ORC). Information, applications, and advising are available to you at the ORC. The following is a list of preliminary steps to take if you are interested in applying.
DAAD Preapplication Form: In order to establish a file at the ORC for the campus competition and to obtain an official application, you must submit a preapplication form.
Read the following material:
"Fulbright Guide for the Stanford Applicant" A DAAD application is very similar to a Fulbright application .
Successful Proposals. On file in the Scholarship Section of the ORC, there are binders containing sample statements of study proposals and curricula vitae (personal statements) written by successful Stanford Fulbright and DAAD applicants.
Consider applying for the following awards for study/research in Germany
IIE Fulbright Scholarship
The German Chancellor Scholarship Program
Free University of Berlin
YOUR DAAD APPLICATION
For the Campus Deadline, please submit the following:
Sent or submitted separately to the ORC:
- Official Transcripts
- 2 Letters of Recommendation
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
Project Proposal: should be written in English and the name of the applicant and page number should appear on each page. The project should be 5-6 pages in length, double spaced. Students in art history, comparative literature, German, history, music history, philosophy and theology do not have to submit an additional version in German.
CV/Resume: in chronological/tabular format. NO NARRATIVES.
Letters on recommendation: should be from faculty members at your institution and must be typed or computer generated on university stationary with a signature in ink. DAAD will not accept faxes, email messages of Fulbright forms.
Language Certificate: faculty member in the German Department must complete this. DAAD will not accept Language Certificates completed by teaching assistants or Fulbright language evaluation forms.
Music Performance: Applicants in music performance should be in the final stages of a master's program and be able to complete the degree before taking up the DAAD Annual Grant. Performing musicians must submit the Supplemental Application Form - Music Performance and recordings as described on the page of additional information for applicants in music. The final decision about admission to the music academy rests totally with the academy itself and an audition will be required. DAAD cannot provide funds for an extra trip to the music academy for an audition.
Fine Arts, Architecture and Film Production: Applicants in these fields should be in the final stages of a master's program and be able to complete the degree before taking up the DAAD Annual Grant. Applicants in these fields must submit the Supplemental Application Form - Fine Arts and a portfolio as described on the page of additional information for applicants in fine arts, architecture and film.
CAMPUS AND NATIONAL REVIEW PROCESS
At the campus level, applications will be reviewed by a committee of Stanford faculty and staff from various departments which may include, but are not limited to, the German Department, History Department, and Bechtel International Center. This campus review committee will nominate at least 2 Stanford students.. The ORC will forward selected applications to DAAD in New York by the national deadline.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
The decisions of the DAAD National Selection Committee are primarily based on academic performance, proposed plan of study or research, and the feasibility of these studies at German institutions of higher education. Academic excellence and feasibility of your proposed plan of study/research are the most important criteria. In the past, all things being equal, DAAD has favored people who have not yet had an opportunity to study in Germany.
FINAL NOTIFICATION
The DAAD Selection Committee hopes to grant two scholarships to applicants from Stanford University. However, DAAD points out that the Annual Grant program is set up as a competition. This means that DAAD's offer is not a guarantee that a particular number of scholarships will be granted to Stanford. The DAAD selection committee could give scholarships to all, one, a few, or none of Stanford's nominees. The DAAD Committee is made up of professors representing a cross-section of disciplines and universities in Germany. Each candidate is evaluated by the committee solely on the merits of her/his academic record and project proposal.
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