2010 – Postgraduate Courses – Scholarships – Professionals – Relevant Developing Countries – DAAD – Bangkok

Posted by sakshi on August 12, 2009

Scholarships – Postgraduate Courses – Professionals – Relevant Developing Countries – DAAD – Bangkok

Universities and Fachhochschulen (Universities of Applied Sciences) offer postgraduate degree or certificate courses with special relevance for developing countries. The DAAD offers full and partial scholarships for staff from government departments, public authorities and state companies concerned with national development policies and projects in technological, economic, agricultural and social fields to participate in these courses.

Duration:
* 12 to 24 months for a Master’s degree or Certificate
* 36 months for a doctorate in Agricultural Management, Industrial Mathematics and programmes for graduates

Value:
The DAAD will pay a monthly award of 750 euros. As a rule, the scholarship additionally includes certain payments towards health insurance cover in Germany. In addition, the DAAD generally will pay an appropriate flat-rate travel allowance, unless these costs are covered by the home country or by another funding source. Furthermore, the DAAD will pay a study and research allowance and, where appropriate, a rent subsidy and family allowance.

Eligibility:
Applications are open to experts and executives from Thailand who have completed a higher education degree course and who have at least two years’ career experience in trade, business, industry and administration of relevance to the desired postgraduate degree course.

Requirements:

• Applications for DAAD study scholarships with relevance to developing countries are open to excellently-qualified graduates who hold a Bachelor’s or comparable academic degree. Generally, no more than six years should have passed between the time when they gained their degree and the time of this application. Please note: For some courses with relevance to developing countries there are age limits.
• Besides previous academic achievements, the most important selection criterion is a convincing presentation of the applicant’s academic and personal reasons for the planned study project in Germany and the expected profit towards development policy.
• Applicants are expected to look upon at least two years of work in their special field and should, if possible, working in a ministery, central department, subdivision, Chamber of Industry and Commerce, a company or firm or in a project for aid towards developing countries.
• If the degree programme includes a several month long stay abroad, funding for this stay abroad will generally only be considered if it takes place in a developing country and lasts a maximum of 6 months and covers a maximum of 25 per cent of the scholarship term.
• Please note: All graduate courses use additional application conditions which have to be considered in any case.
• Applicants, who have been resident in Germany for longer than one year at the time of application, cannot be considered.

Proof of language proficiency:

• for postgraduate degree courses instructed in English: TOEFL-Text (min. 550 points) or IELTS-Test (min. volume 6.0);
• for postgraduate degree courses held in German: DSH (language admission exam for German Universities) or TestDaf. Applicants with little knowledge of German can be granted an additional sixth month scholarship for language training in Germany preceeding the postgraduate course. They are however required to attend German language classes in Thailand (e. g. at the Goethe Institut ).

Application deadline:
31st August each year

Source:
http://www.daad.or.th/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=0