DAAD EPOS Scholarship in Marine Biology (University of Bremen)

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers a limited number of scholarships to highly qualified applicants. The current call for applications and necessary application documents for the scholarship for an EPOS study program can be found on the DAAD’s website.

The programmes ISATEC and Marine Biology have been merged to form a single MSc programme with two study profiles. From the winter semester 2020/21 on, ISATEC is a study profile in the MSc programme Marine Biology!

The application therefore has to be for Marine Biology (choose the subject “Marine Biology DAAD” in the online application portal, if you want to apply for ISATEC in combination with a DAAD scholarship from the “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses” programme).

To be considered for the University of Bremen DAAD Scholarship, you must:

• have completed your undergraduate studies and need to hold a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) in biological/environmental sciences with

  • an overall grade of at least 2.5 according to the German grading scheme (1.0 equals “excellent”, 2.0 “good”, 3.0 “satisfactory”, 4.0 “sufficient”, and 5.0 “fail”.

• Grades from international applicants will be converted to the German grading scheme by the university administration.

• Applicants for the DAAD scholarship have to be citizens of developing countries with at least two years of professional working experience.

The scholarship includes;

• Travel Allowance/Airfare.

• Monthly Rent Subsidy.

• Monthly allowance for Family members.

• €992 in Monthly Stipend.

• Payments toward health, accident, and personal liability insurance.

To apply, candidates must be ready to submit the following documents;

• Application Form

• Letter of Motivation

• Curriculum Vitae

• English Language Proficiency

The DAAD website explains which documents have to be submitted for an application to a scholarship for an EPOS degree programme can be found here.

To apply for the DAAD EPOS Scholarship in Marine Biology, interested and qualified candidates should,

• 1

  Click the green button below to go to the scholarship webpage.

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  Applications (for ISATEC as well as for the DAAD scholarships) must be submitted via the Online Application Portal and contain all documents required by the DAAD.