Scholarship programm "Hilde Domin"

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has been offering the "Hilde Domin Program" scholarship program with funding from the Federal Foreign Office (AA). It supports doctoral candidates at risk worldwide who are denied access to education in their country of origin. It is intended to offer candidates the opportunity to begin or continue their research in Germany. The doctoral candidates nominated and selected are enrolled in departments or research institutions of their personal choice and individual qualifications and receive a scholarship that covers the necessary costs of the research stay.

Nomination and selection procedure

It is not possible for potential candidates to apply on their own. They must be nominated by an institution. For this purpose, the institutions submit a pre-prepared nomination form and a nomination declaration to the DAAD. After an initial review of the candidates, the candidates are contacted by the DAAD to subsequently apply via an online application portal. The DAAD checks the application for completeness and formal correctness. However, a final decision is then made by an independent selection committee.

Requirements

Doctoral candidates from almost all disciplines can be nominated. Exceptions are the fields of fine arts, performing arts, design, visual communication, music, film and architecture as well as human medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Candidates must not have been in Germany or other EU countries at the time of the application deadline.

Applicants must be able to present the following documents:

  • Proof or credible description of threat to their personal well-being or safety.
  • Educational certificates that entitle the applicant to admission to a university and guarantee the completion of the intended course of study or research project according to the database www.anabin.de (Applicants are required to submit German or English translations of documents written in the national language).

The duration of the fellowship is based on the degree pursued: doctoral degree: up to 48 months

Scholarship benefits include:

  • a monthly scholarship installment of 1,200 EUR for doctoral candidates
  • health, nursing care, accident and personal liability insurance
  • a subsidy for travel expenses, based on the country of origin or current country of residence
  • Participation in a German language course (two, four or six months), depending on the language skills acquired so far and those required for the intended doctoral project.
  • further additional benefits

Contact

At the moment there is no open call for applications.

The Welcome Center is exclusively responsible for doctoral students. Students who would like to be nominated, please contact Jens Kemper from the International Office to find out about the nomination requirements.

What do I have to do if I want to be nominated?

Doctoral students who would like to be nominated by the Welcome Center, please submit the following documents: 

Curriculum vitae

1-page exposé of the research project

a confirmation of supervision by a mentor from the relevant research area at the University of Bremen

Cooperating in U Bremen Research Alliance:

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
In­sti­tute for the Pro­tec­tion of Mar­itime In­fras­truc­tures
German Aerospace Center – Institute of Space Systems
German Maritime Museum
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems and Energy System Technology
Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology
Leibniz Institute for Material-Oriented Technologies
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Universität Bremen
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