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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; Template:Langx), The German Academic Exchange Service e. V. (DAAD), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Joybrato Mukherjee has been President since January 1, 2020.^[1]

Tasks and Goals

The DAAD claims to be the world's largest funding organization for the international exchange of students and academics. Since its foundation in 1925, the DAAD has supported more than 3 million academics in Germany and abroad (as of 2024).^[2]

However, its workings go far beyond awarding scholarships: promoting the internationalization of German universities and research, providing strategic advice to universities in the field of internationalization and concerning questions of international university marketing, strengthening German studies, the German language and German studies abroad, supporting countries of the Global South in establishing efficient universities as well as advising decision-makers in cultural policy, education policy and development policy.

File:DAAD-Jubi-Logo-Claim.jpg

Logo and claim for the 100th anniversary of the DAAD in 2025.

File:Hauptgebäude DAAD.jpg

Main building in Bonn

In 2024, the DAAD, including the EU programmes, supported more than 140,000 people around the globe, making it the largest funding organization of its kind in the world.^[3] Its services range from semesters abroad for Bachelor's and Master's students to doctoral studies, from internships to guest lectureships, from information visits to the establishment of universities abroad. The DAAD supports the international activities of German universities through marketing services, publications, events and training courses, but also through special funding programs for the establishment of international university partnerships.^[4] Scholarships for foreigners are advertised via the DAAD scholarship database^[5] and publicized via the German embassies, the DAAD regional offices,^[6] the information centers (IC),^[7] DAAD lecturers and partner universities abroad. Contact with the DAAD for German students is usually arranged by the International Office of a university. One exception is the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, which is aimed at visual artists, writers and musicians.

The DAAD is also the National Agency for the coordination and implementation of the European Union's Erasmus+ program for the higher education sector.

File:Flaggen des DAAD.jpg

Flags of the DAAD on Kennedyallee, Bonn

The statutory name is “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (German Academic Exchange Service), in legally binding letters with the addition e. V. In its publications, the association also used the variants “Austausch-Dienst” and “Austausch Dienst” to clarify the acronym DAAD until the beginning of 2015.

DAAD-Strategy 2030

In view of the global challenges facing international academic cooperation and according to the DAAD the growing importance of international academic exchange, the DAAD published a new strategy in January 2025. The DAAD Strategy 2030 serves as a compass for the DAAD. It analyzes the current framework conditions of international academic cooperation and, on this basis, formulates the priorities and goals of the DAAD's work until 2030. The DAAD Strategy 2030 emphasizes the role of the DAAD as an actor in foreign science policy and science diplomacy and systematically takes current developments at universities and in society into account.

Against this background, the DAAD Strategy 2030 sets four priorities:

1. strengthening Germany as a location for science, innovation and business.

2. solutions for global challenges.

3. science diplomacy in a multipolar world.

4. promoting democracy and social cohesion.

These priorities are formulated in ten strategic goals in the DAAD's three central fields of action - funding, networking, advising - and the three strategic cross-cutting dimensions - sustainability, diversity

, digitalization.

File:DAAD Strategie 2030 - Handlungsfelder.webp

The 10 strategic goals in the fields of action of promoting, networking and advising

Mission statement of the DAAD

“Change by exchange” is the DAAD's motto. Through international academic exchange (mission), the DAAD promotes the personal development and qualification of people and shapes social and global transformation processes for a better future on the planet (vision).

File:Mission und Vision DAAD.webp

Vision and mission of the DAAD

History

It was founded on January 13, 1925 on the basis of a student initiative under the name “Akademischer Austauschdienst” e. V. (AAD) in Heidelberg. The headquarters were moved to Berlin in the same year it was founded; the name Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) has been in use since 1931. Immediately after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the DAAD was brought into line with the Nazis, but it also actively sought proximity to the National Socialist regime itself.^[8] Ewald von Massow, a member of the NSDAP, was appointed president. The office in the Berlin City Palace was destroyed by bombing in 1943 and the service was then dissolved in 1945. On August 5, 1950, the DAAD was re-established in Bonn.

Well-known DAAD alumni

Some Nobel Prize winners are DAAD alumni,^[9] including:

Günter Blobel (physiology, 1999),^[10]
Gao Xingjian (literature, 2000),^[11]
Wolfgang Ketterle (physics, 2001),^[12]
Imre Kertész (literature, 2002),
Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize, 2004),^[13]
Herta Müller (literature, 2009),^[14]
Mario Vargas Llosa (literature, 2009),
Svetlana Alexievich (literature, 2015),
Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (Nobel Peace Prize, 2017),^[15]
Olga Tokarczuk (literature, 2018),
Peter Handke (literature, 2019),^[16] and others.

Other Alumni:

Margaret Atwood (*1939), writer
Unsuk Chin (*1961), composer^[17]
Willie Doherty (*1959), artist
Jeffrey Eugenides (* 1960), writer
Jim Jarmusch (* 1953), film producer
Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007), journalist
Nam June Paik (1932-2006), artist
Max Söllner (1929-2003), artist
Susan Sontag (1933-2004), writer and director
Bob Wilson (* 1941), director and playwright
Ghil'ad Zuckermann (* 1971), linguist
Emmett Williams (1925-2007), Fluxus artist
Claus Kleber (* 1955), journalist
Karl Lauterbach (* 1963), German physician, health economist and politician (SPD)
Norbert Langer (* 1958), astrophysicist
Sascha Spoun (* 1969), German-Swiss economist. President of Leuphana University of Lüneburg since 2006
Juli Zeh (* 1974), writer and lawyer
Jutta Allmendinger (* 1956), sociologist
Karamba Diaby (* 1961), politician (SPD) and member of the Bundestag
Magdalena Götz (* 1962), neurobiologist and university lecturer
Claudia Kemfert (* 1968), economist, Head of the Energy, Transport and Environment Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg,
Juliane Kokott (* 1957), lawyer, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and titular professor at the University of St. Gallen
Dagmar Schäfer (* 1968), sinologist and historian of science
Andreas Meck (1959-2019), German architect and university lecturer
Juliane Vogel (* 1959), literary scholar, Professor of Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz
Wolfgang Ketterle (* 1957), German physicist, university lecturer and Nobel Prize winner
Harald zur Hausen (1936-2023), physician and Nobel Prize winner
Tsitsi Dangarembga (* 1959), author and filmmaker
Alexander Gerst (* 1976), geophysicist and astronaut
Susanne Mahlmeister (1952-2000), painter, photographer and sculptor

Funding

The DAAD's budget comes mainly from public funds (Federal Foreign Office, BMBF, BMZ, EU, etc.), but also from private donors and organizations.

The total budget (total funds) in 2024 amounted to €752.82 million.^[18]

Organisation

Bodies

The President (see adjacent) represents the DAAD externally.

In addition to the President and Vice-President, the DAAD Board currently consists of ten representatives (m/f) of the universities (Presidents, Rectors or Heads of the International Offices) and three student representatives. The Board members are elected by the General Assembly, whereby the student representatives must have the majority of all votes and those of the student bodies. The representatives of the universities are elected every four years, those of the student bodies every two years. The following are also co-opted as guests

· Representatives of the financing federal ministries (AA, BMBF and BMZ),

· the presidents of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK), the Goethe-Institut and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

· the General Secretaries of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) and the “Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft”, more specifically their representatives.

The General Assembly meets once a year.

Presidents


Name	Term of Office
Name	from	to
Alfred Weber	1925	1925
Viktor Bruns	1925	1931
Theodor Lewald	1931	1933
Ewald von Massow	1933	1942
Gustav Adolf Scheel	1942	1945
Theodor Klauser	1950	1954
Werner Richter	1954	1959
Emil Lehnartz	1960	1968
Gerhard Kielwein	1968	1972
Hansgerd Schulte	1972	1987
Theodor Berchem	1988	2007
Stefan Hormuth	2008	2010^[3]
Sabine Kunst	2010	2011^[6]
Margret Wintermantel	2012	2019
Joybrato Mukherjee	2020	today^[8]

Head Office

File:Kai Sicks (2024).jpg

Kai Sicks (2024)

The DAAD Head Office is headed by Secretary General Kai Sicks. In 2019, the budget volume amounted to 594 million euros, the number of permanent positions as well as project and third-party funded positions was 929. In 2021, the DAAD funded around 64,000 students, graduates, scientists, artists and administrators: 14,427 came to Germany from abroad, 49,825 Germans gained experience all over the world. The “National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation” within the DAAD is responsible for implementing Erasmus+ activities in the higher education sector, coordinating not only study abroad programs but also internships and exchanges of lecturers and other university administration staff. As part of the Erasmus+ mobility programs, 40.063 people were funded in 2024.

In addition to its headquarters in Bonn (Kennedyallee 50), the DAAD maintains a capital city office in Berlin, which is located in the WissenschaftsForum Berlin. The renowned DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is also affiliated with the capital city office.

Regional Offices and Information Centers

File:DAAD offices in Yaoundé on Ngoa-Ekelle campus 2014.jpg

DAAD Information Center in Yaoundé, Cameroon

A network of 21 regional offices, 36 information centers (ICs) and 6 German Centers for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in more than 50 countries maintains contact with the partner countries and provides advice on site (as of 2024). The first DAAD regional office was founded in London in 1927, the most recent in Accra in 2024 and in Bishkek in 2025.

The Regional Offices with their founding year:

DAAD Regional Office London (founded in 1927; reopened in 1952)^[19]
DAAD Regional Office Cairo (1960)^[20]
DAAD Regional Office New Delhi (1960)^[21]
DAAD Regional Office Paris (1963)^[22]
DAAD Regional Office New York City (1971)^[23]
DAAD Regional Office Rio de Janeiro (1972)^[24]
DAAD Regional Office Moscow (1973, 1993)^[25]
DAAD Regional Office Nairobi (1973)^[26]

DAAD Regional Office Tokyo (1978)^[27]
DAAD Regional Office Jakarta (1990)[26]
DAAD Regional Office Beijing (1994)^[28]
DAAD Regional Office Warsaw (1997)^[29]
DAAD Regional Office Mexico City (2001)^[30]
DAAD Regional Office Hanoi (2003)^[31]
DAAD Regional Office Brussels (2007)[31]
DAAD Regional Office Tunis (2019)^[32]
DAAD Regional Office Amman (2019)^[33]
DAAD Regional Office Bogotá (2019)^[34]
DAAD Regional Office Tunis (2020)^[35]
DAAD Regional Office Tiflis (2021)^[36]
DAAD Regional Office Accra (2024)
DAAD Regional Office Central Asia, based in Bishkek (2025)

DAAD-Freundeskreis e. V.

Foreign students on DAAD scholarships are supported in Germany by former German DAAD scholarship holders who are members of the DAAD-Freundeskreis e. V.

The Circle of Friends was founded in 1981 and has around 1500 members nationwide. There are regional groups in many university cities which organize the support of foreign scholarship holders.^[37]

DAAD friends groups and alumni associations of former foreign scholarship holders exist in many countries.

Other

According to a survey conducted in 2020, participants in the DAAD's Erasmus+ programs (around 79,000 participants) enter into living relationships with foreign partners (27%) twice as often as students who have not spent time abroad (13%). Furthermore, the unemployment rate for Erasmus+ students five years after graduation is 23% lower than for those who have not been abroad for study or training purposes.^[38]

Since 2021, the DAAD has been supporting students who are formally or de facto denied the right to education or other basic rights in their home countries with the Hilde Domin programme.^[39]

Prizes

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize

The DAAD awards an annual Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize to academics from abroad for “outstanding work in the fields of German literature and linguistics, German as a foreign language and German studies”. The award, in memory of the linguists and founders of German studies Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is endowed with 10,000 euros and is associated with a four-week research stay at a German university.[36][37] The Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize honors new scholars in the same research fields.

AA Prize

Together with the Federal Foreign Office, the DAAD has awarded the Federal Foreign Office Prize for excellent support for foreign students at German universities (AA Prize), which has been awarded annually since 1998 (endowed with €20,000 since 2013^[40]).

University Integration Prize

The “University Integration Prize for outstanding commitment to the integration of refugees who are able to study”, or University Integration Prize for short, has been awarded by the DAAD and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2021. The prize is intended to highlight particularly innovative and successful projects and initiatives, identify projects with a model character and encourage sustainable further development.^[41]

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German Academic Exchange Service: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:07, 17 October 2025

Contents

Tasks and Goals

DAAD-Strategy 2030

Mission statement of the DAAD

History

Well-known DAAD alumni

Funding

Organisation

Bodies

Presidents

Head Office

Regional Offices and Information Centers

DAAD-Freundeskreis e. V.

Other

Prizes

See also

References

External links

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-| budget                   = [[Euro|EUR]] 471m <small>(2015)</small><ref name="daad_report_2015">{{cite web|title=DAAD annual report 2015|url=https://www.daad.de/der-daad/zahlen-und-fakten/en/30736-budget-and-funding-bodies/|access-date=2016-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121359/https://www.daad.de/der-daad/zahlen-und-fakten/en/30736-budget-and-funding-bodies/|archive-date=2019-01-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+| formation        = 1925<ref>''[https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/]''.</ref>
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+| num_staff        = approx. 1220<ref name="jahresbericht" /><br />(Bonn, Berlin and worldwide)
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+| leader_name      = [[Joybrato Mukherjee]]
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+| purpose          = Promoting the international exchange of students and academics.<ref>[https://www.daad.de/portrait/service/publikationen/08978.de.html ''Kurzportrait des DAADs''].</ref>
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-The '''German Academic Exchange Service''' ('''DAAD'''; {{langx|de|Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst}}), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Since 1 January 2020, the president has been [[Joybrato Mukherjee]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/71935-prof-dr-joybrato-mukherjee-zum-neuen-daad-praesidenten-gewaehlt/ | title=Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee zum neuen DAAD-Präsidenten gewählt - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst }}</ref>
+The '''German Academic Exchange Service''' ('''DAAD'''; {{langx|de|Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst}}), The German Academic Exchange Service e. V. (DAAD), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Joybrato Mukherjee has been President since January 1, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee zum neuen DAAD-Präsidenten gewählt - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/71935-prof-dr-joybrato-mukherjee-zum-neuen-daad-praesidenten-gewaehlt/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www2.daad.de}}</ref>
+== Tasks and Goals ==
+The DAAD claims to be the world's largest funding organization for the international exchange of students and academics. Since its foundation in 1925, the DAAD has supported more than 3 million academics in Germany and abroad (as of 2024).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+However, its workings go far beyond awarding scholarships: promoting the internationalization of German universities and research, providing strategic advice to universities in the field of internationalization and concerning questions of international university marketing, strengthening German studies, the German language and German studies abroad, supporting countries of the Global South in establishing efficient universities as well as advising decision-makers in cultural policy, education policy and development policy.
+[[File:DAAD-Jubi-Logo-Claim.jpg|thumb|Logo and claim for the 100th anniversary of the DAAD in 2025.]]
+[[File:Hauptgebäude DAAD.jpg|thumb|Main building in [[Bonn]]]]
+In 2024, the DAAD, including the EU programmes, supported more than 140,000 people around the globe, making it the largest funding organization of its kind in the world.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> Its services range from semesters abroad for Bachelor's and Master's students to doctoral studies, from internships to guest lectureships, from information visits to the establishment of universities abroad. The DAAD supports the international activities of German universities through marketing services, publications, events and training courses, but also through special funding programs for the establishment of international university partnerships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Infos & Services für Hochschulen |url=https://www.daad.de/de/infos-services-fuer-hochschulen/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> Scholarships for foreigners are advertised via the DAAD scholarship database<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stipendiendatenbank - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www2.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/datenbank/de/21148-stipendiendatenbank/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www2.daad.de}}</ref> and publicized via the German embassies, the DAAD regional offices,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Wer wir sind |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/wer-wir-sind/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> the information centers (IC),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wer wir sind |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/wer-wir-sind/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> DAAD lecturers and partner universities abroad. Contact with the DAAD for German students is usually arranged by the International Office of a university. One exception is the [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program]], which is aimed at visual artists, writers and musicians.
+The DAAD is also the National Agency for the coordination and implementation of the [[European Union]]'s [[Erasmus+|Erasmus+ program]] for the higher education sector.
+[[File:Flaggen des DAAD.jpg|thumb|Flags of the DAAD on [[Kennedyallee (Bonn)|Kennedyallee]], Bonn]]
+The statutory name is “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (German Academic Exchange Service), in legally binding letters with the addition ''e. V.'' In its publications, the association also used the variants “Austausch-Dienst” and “Austausch Dienst” to clarify the acronym ''DAAD'' until the beginning of 2015.
+== DAAD-Strategy 2030 ==
+In view of the global challenges facing international academic cooperation and according to the DAAD the growing importance of international academic exchange, the DAAD published a new strategy in January 2025. The DAAD Strategy 2030 serves as a compass for the DAAD. It analyzes the current framework conditions of international academic cooperation and, on this basis, formulates the priorities and goals of the DAAD's work until 2030. The DAAD Strategy 2030 emphasizes the role of the DAAD as an actor in foreign science policy and science diplomacy and systematically takes current developments at universities and in society into account.
+Against this background, the DAAD Strategy 2030 sets four priorities:
+. strengthening Germany as a location for science, innovation and business.
+. solutions for global challenges.
+. science diplomacy in a multipolar world.
+. promoting democracy and social cohesion.
+These priorities are formulated in ten strategic goals in the DAAD's three central fields of action - funding, networking, advising - and the three strategic cross-cutting dimensions - sustainability, diversity
+, digitalization.[[File:DAAD Strategie 2030 - Handlungsfelder.webp|thumb|The 10 strategic goals in the fields of action of promoting, networking and advising|center|260x260px]]
+== Mission statement of the DAAD ==
+“Change by exchange” is the DAAD's motto. Through international academic exchange (mission), the DAAD promotes the personal development and qualification of people and shapes social and global transformation processes for a better future on the planet (vision).[[File:Mission und Vision DAAD.webp|thumb|Vision and mission of the DAAD|center]]
+== History ==
+It was founded on January 13, 1925 on the basis of a student initiative under the name “Akademischer Austauschdienst” e. V. (AAD) in Heidelberg. The headquarters were moved to Berlin in the same year it was founded; the name Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) has been in use since 1931. Immediately after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the DAAD was brought into line with the Nazis, but it also actively sought proximity to the National Socialist regime itself.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Zukunft braucht Erinnerung |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/wer-wir-sind/wandel-durch-austausch/zukunft-braucht-erinnerung/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> Ewald von Massow, a member of the NSDAP, was appointed president. The office in the Berlin City Palace was destroyed by bombing in 1943 and the service was then dissolved in 1945. On August 5, 1950, the DAAD was re-established in Bonn.
+== Well-known DAAD alumni ==
+Some [[Nobel Prize]] winners are DAAD alumni,<ref>{{Cite news |title=History |url=https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/who-we-are/history/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326002814/https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/who-we-are/history/ |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |work=www.daad.de |language=en}}</ref> including:
+* [[Günter Blobel]] (physiology, 1999),<ref>{{Cite web |title=DAAD, New York City: Sound Understanding - A Gala Concert - get invited to more events like this |url=https://www.eventme.com/invitation/daad.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326002940/https://www.eventme.com/invitation/daad.aspx |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.eventme.com |language=en-us}}</ref>
+* [[Gao Xingjian]] (literature, 2000),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm |url=http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news_druck.php?id=111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003156/http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news_druck.php?id=111 |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de}}</ref>
+* [[Wolfgang Ketterle]] (physics, 2001),<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/ketterle/facts/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003252/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/ketterle/facts/ |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
+* [[Imre Kertész]] (literature, 2002),
+* [[Wangarĩ Maathai|Wangari Maathai]] ([[Nobel Peace Prize]], 2004),<ref>{{Cite web |last=(www.dw.com) |first=Deutsche Welle |title=Kenyan Environmental Activist Wins Nobel Peace Prize {{!}} DW {{!}} 08.10.2004 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/kenyan-environmental-activist-wins-nobel-peace-prize/a-1352886 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003416/https://www.dw.com/en/kenyan-environmental-activist-wins-nobel-peace-prize/a-1352886 |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=DW.COM |language=en}}</ref>
+* [[Herta Müller]] (literature, 2009),<ref>{{Cite web |title=DAAD gratuliert Herta Müller zum Literaturnobelpreis |url=https://idw-online.de/de/news338186 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003549/https://idw-online.de/de/news338186 |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=idw-online.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (literature, 2009),
+* [[Svetlana Alexievich]] (literature, 2015),
+* [[Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm]] (Nobel Peace Prize, 2017),<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |title=Friedensnobelpreis 2017: Für eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/60320-friedensnobelpreis-2017-fuer-eine-welt-ohne-atomwaffen/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003742/https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/60320-friedensnobelpreis-2017-fuer-eine-welt-ohne-atomwaffen/ |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www2.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* [[Olga Tokarczuk]] (literature, 2018),
+* [[Peter Handke]] (literature, 2019),<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |title=Literaturnobelpreise gehen an DAAD-Alumni - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/74410-literaturnobelpreise-gehen-an-daad-alumni/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003910/https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/74410-literaturnobelpreise-gehen-an-daad-alumni/ |archive-date=2020-03-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www2.daad.de |language=de}}</ref> and others.
+Other Alumni:
+* [[Margaret Atwood]] (*1939), writer
+* [[Unsuk Chin]] (*1961), composer<ref>{{Cite news |title=Chin, Unsuk {{!}} JetztMusik {{!}} SWR2 |url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jetztmusik/chin-unsuk/-/id=659442/did=3056682/nid=659442/1hcyggp/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328224841/https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jetztmusik/chin-unsuk/-/id=659442/did=3056682/nid=659442/1hcyggp/index.html |archive-date=2020-03-28 |access-date=2025-07-11 |work=swr.online |language=de-DE}}</ref>
+* [[Willie Doherty]] (*1959), artist
+* [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] (* 1960), writer
+* [[Jim Jarmusch]] (* 1953), film producer
+* [[Ryszard Kapuściński]] (1932-2007), journalist
+* [[Nam June Paik]] (1932-2006), artist
+* [[Max Söllner]] (1929-2003), artist
+* [[Susan Sontag]] (1933-2004), writer and director
+* [[Bob Wilson (footballer, born 1941)|Bob Wilson]] (* 1941), director and playwright
+* [[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]] (* 1971), linguist
+* [[Emmett Williams]] (1925-2007), [[Fluxus]] artist
+* [[Claus Kleber]] (* 1955), journalist
+* [[Karl Lauterbach]] (* 1963), German physician, health economist and politician ([[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]])
+* [[Norbert Langer]] (* 1958), astrophysicist
+* [[Sascha Spoun]] (* 1969), German-Swiss economist. President of Leuphana University of Lüneburg since 2006
+* [[Juli Zeh]] (* 1974), writer and lawyer
+* [[Jutta Allmendinger]] (* 1956), sociologist
+* [[Karamba Diaby]] (* 1961), politician (SPD) and member of the Bundestag
+* [[Magdalena Götz]] (* 1962), neurobiologist and university lecturer
+* [[Claudia Kemfert]] (* 1968), economist, Head of the Energy, Transport and Environment Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg,
+* [[Juliane Kokott]] (* 1957), lawyer, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and titular professor at the University of St. Gallen
+* [[Dagmar Schäfer]] (* 1968), sinologist and historian of science
+* Andreas Meck (1959-2019), German architect and university lecturer
+* [[Juliane Vogel]] (* 1959), literary scholar, Professor of Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz
+* [[Wolfgang Ketterle]] (* 1957), German physicist, university lecturer and Nobel Prize winner
+* [[Harald zur Hausen]] (1936-2023), physician and Nobel Prize winner
+* [[Tsitsi Dangarembga]] (* 1959), author and filmmaker
+* [[Alexander Gerst]] (* 1976), geophysicist and astronaut
+* [[Susanne Mahlmeister]] (1952-2000), painter, photographer and sculptor
+== Funding ==
+The DAAD's budget comes mainly from public funds (Federal Foreign Office, BMBF, BMZ, EU, etc.), but also from private donors and organizations.
+The total budget (total funds) in 2024 amounted to €752.82 million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
 ==Organisation==
-''DAAD'' is a private, federally funded and state-funded, self-governing national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany, representing 365 German higher education institutions (100 universities and technical universities, 162 general universities of applied sciences, and 52 colleges of music and art) [2003].
-The DAAD itself does not offer programs of study or courses, but awards competitive, merit-based grants for use toward study and/or research in Germany at any of the [[accredited]] German institutions of higher education. It also awards grants to German students, doctoral students, and scholars for studies and research abroad. With an annual budget of 522 million Euros and supporting approximately 140.000 individuals world-wide,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daad.de/medien-und-publikationen/de/29887-jahresbericht/|title=Jahresbericht - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst|website=www.daad.de|access-date=2019-04-29|archive-date=2019-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430032509/https://www.daad.de/medien-und-publikationen/de/29887-jahresbericht/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the DAAD is in fact the largest such academic grant organisation worldwide<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.daad.de/medien/daad_jahresbericht_2017.pdf|title=Jahresbericht|last=DAAD|date=2017|website=DAAD|access-date=April 29, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/64076-weiterer-aufwaertstrend-bei-stipendien-und-programmen-daad-zieht-positive-bilanz-fuer-den-wissenschaftsaustausch-2017/|title=Weiterer Aufwärtstrend bei Stipendien und Programmen: DAAD zieht positive Bilanz für den Wissenschaftsaustausch 2017 - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst|website=www2.daad.de|access-date=2020-03-29}}</ref> The organisation was founded on 1 January 1925 but closed down in 1945, only to be re-founded again in 1950.<ref name=":1" />
+=== Bodies ===
+The President (see adjacent) represents the DAAD externally.
+In addition to the President and Vice-President, the DAAD Board currently consists of ten representatives (m/f) of the universities (Presidents, Rectors or Heads of the International Offices) and three student representatives. The Board members are elected by the General Assembly, whereby the student representatives must have the majority of all votes and those of the student bodies. The representatives of the universities are elected every four years, those of the student bodies every two years. The following are also co-opted as guests
-==Headquarters and regional offices==
+·       Representatives of the financing federal ministries ([[Federal Foreign Office|AA]], [[Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space|BMBF]] and [[Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development|BMZ]]),
-The DAAD headquarters are in [[Bonn]] and there are 21 regional offices that exist to provide information and advice on study and research opportunities, as well as available grants, tailored to students and academics within their region.
-[[File:DAAD-Jubi-Logo-Claim.jpg|thumb|Logo and slogan for the DAAD's 100th anniversary in 2025.]]
-The DAAD New York office serves residents of the United States and Canada who are enrolled or employed at American and Canadian higher education institutions and would like to study or pursue research in Germany.  From the perspective of this side of the exchange, the DAAD's mission is to facilitate American and Canadian students' access to the distinguished German institutions of higher education and research—from research universities (Universitäten) to universities of applied sciences ([[Fachhochschule]]), colleges of music and art, libraries and archives, and research institutions such as the [[Max Planck Institutes]].[[File:Hauptgebäude DAAD.jpg|thumb|DAAD headquarters in [[Bonn]]]]
+·       the presidents of the [[German Rectors' Conference]] (HRK), the [[Goethe-Institut]] and the [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]] (AvH)
-== DAAD scholarships and programmes ==
+·       the General Secretaries of the [[Kultusministerkonferenz|Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder]] in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) and the “Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft”, more specifically their representatives.
-[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F011970-0006, Bonn, Beethovenhalle, Veranstaltung des DAAD.jpg|thumb|DAAD official reception in 1961]]
-The DAAD scholarship grants<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://daadscholarship.com/|title=DAAD Scholarships 2023 - Study for Free in Germany|website=DAAD Scholarship 2023 - DAAD German Scholarship Application Call Letter}}</ref> administered by the DAAD abroad are available to students of all academic disciplines and at each academic degree level, including [[undergraduates]], graduating undergraduates and recent graduates with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[master's degree]] students, [[doctoral]] students, [[PhD]] candidates and [[postdoctoral]] scholars, and faculty.
-The DAAD worldwide network also includes around 50 information centers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daad.org/en/about-us/who-we-are/about-the-daad/|title=About DAAD|date=2015-11-18|website=DAAD Office New York|language=en|access-date=2020-03-29}}</ref> and around 450 DAAD lecturer positions.
+The General Assembly meets once a year.<blockquote>
-[https://europeanscholarship.com/daad-scholarships/ DAAD scholarship] is one of the top scholarships offered by European country Germany for outstanding international students. Every year Students are selected on merit basis and offered a [https://scholarshipshub.info/daad-scholarships-in-germany/ DAAD scholarship] to study postgraduate degree masters and PhD in German universities.
+=== Presidents ===
+</blockquote>
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+! rowspan="2" |Name
+! colspan="2" |Term of Office
+|-
+!'''from'''
+!to
+|-
+|[[Alfred Weber]]
+|1925
+|1925
+|-
+|[[Victor Bruns|Viktor Bruns]]
+|1925
+|1931
+|-
+|[[Theodor Lewald]]
+|1931
+|1933
+|-
+|[[Ewald von Massow]]
+|1933
+|1942
+|-
+|[[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]
+|1942
+|1945
+|-
+|[[Theodor Klauser]]
+|1950
+|1954
+|-
+|[[Werner Richter]]
+|1954
+|1959
+|-
+|[[Emil Lehnartz]]
+|1960
+|1968
+|-
+|[[Gerhard Kielwein]]
+|1968
+|1972
+|-
+|[[Hansgerd Schulte]]
+|1972
+|1987
+|-
+|[[Theodor Berchem]]
+|1988
+|2007
+|-
+|[[Stefan Hormuth]]
+|2008
+|2010<ref name=":0" />
+|-
+|[[Sabine Kunst]]
+|2010
+|2011<ref name=":1" />
+|-
+|[[Margret Wintermantel]]
+|2012
+|2019
+|-
+|[[Joybrato Mukherjee]]
+|2020
+|today<ref name=":2" />
+|}
-==Notable DAAD Alumni==
+=== Head Office ===
-DAAD alumni have occupied key roles in government, academia and industry. The alumni include winners of prestigious awards such as the [[Pulitzer Prize]], [[MacArthur Fellows Program]], [[Leibniz Prize|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]], [[Grammy Awards]], [[Academy Awards]] (Oscars) as well as several [[Head of state|heads of state]].
+[[File:Kai Sicks (2024).jpg|thumb|Kai Sicks (2024)]]
+The DAAD Head Office is headed by Secretary General Kai Sicks. In 2019, the budget volume amounted to 594 million euros, the number of permanent positions as well as project and third-party funded positions was 929. In 2021, the DAAD funded around 64,000 students, graduates, scientists, artists and administrators: 14,427 came to Germany from abroad, 49,825 Germans gained experience all over the world. The “National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation” within the DAAD is responsible for implementing [[Erasmus+]] activities in the higher education sector, coordinating not only study abroad programs but also internships and exchanges of lecturers and other university administration staff. As part of the Erasmus+ mobility programs, 40.063 people were funded in 2024.
-Additionally, at least 12 [[Nobel Prize]] Winners are DAAD alumni.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/who-we-are/history/|title=History|website=www.daad.de|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326002814/https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/who-we-are/history/|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref> For example, [[Günter Blobel]] (1999),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eventme.com/invitation/daad.aspx|title=DAAD, New York City: Sound Understanding - A Gala Concert in Carnegie Hall|website=www.eventme.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326002940/https://www.eventme.com/invitation/daad.aspx|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Gao Xingjian]] (2000),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news_druck.php?id=111|title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm|website=www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003156/http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news_druck.php?id=111|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Wolfgang Ketterle]] (2001),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/ketterle/facts/|title=Wolfgang Ketterle {{!}} The Nobel Prize|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003252/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/ketterle/facts/|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Imre Kertész]] (2002),  [[Wangari Maathai]] (2004),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/kenyan-environmental-activist-wins-nobel-peace-prize/a-1352886|title=Kenyan environmental Activist wins Nobel Peace Prize {{!}} Deutsche Welle DW|website=[[Deutsche Welle]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003416/https://www.dw.com/en/kenyan-environmental-activist-wins-nobel-peace-prize/a-1352886|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Herta Müller]] (2009),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://idw-online.de/de/news338186|title=Informationsdienst Wissenschaft|website=idw-online.de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003549/https://idw-online.de/de/news338186|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (2009), [[Svetlana Alexievich]] (2015), Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (2017),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/60320-friedensnobelpreis-2017-fuer-eine-welt-ohne-atomwaffen/|title=Friedensnobelpreis 2017: Für eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst|website=www2.daad.de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003742/https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/60320-friedensnobelpreis-2017-fuer-eine-welt-ohne-atomwaffen/|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Olga Tokarczuk]] (2018), [[Peter Handke]] (2019),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/74410-literaturnobelpreise-gehen-an-daad-alumni/|title=Literature Nobel Prizes go to DAAD-Alumni - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst|website=www2.daad.de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003910/https://www2.daad.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/de/74410-literaturnobelpreise-gehen-an-daad-alumni/|archive-date=2020-03-26|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref> [[Reinhard Genzel]] (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-10-15 |title=Physik-Nobelpreis für DAAD-Alumnus |url=https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/78099-physik-nobelpreis-fuer-daad-alumnus/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=DAAD}}</ref> and others.
+In addition to its headquarters in Bonn (Kennedyallee 50), the DAAD maintains a capital city office in Berlin, which is located in the WissenschaftsForum Berlin. The renowned [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program]] is also affiliated with the capital city office.
-=== List of notable DAAD alumni ===
+=== Regional Offices and Information Centers ===
+[[File:DAAD offices in Yaoundé on Ngoa-Ekelle campus 2014.jpg|thumb|DAAD Information Center in [[Yaoundé]], Cameroon]]
+A network of 21 regional offices, 36 information centers (ICs) and 6 German Centers for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in more than 50 countries maintains contact with the partner countries and provides advice on site (as of 2024). The first DAAD regional office was founded in [[London]] in 1927, the most recent in [[Accra]] in 2024 and in [[Bishkek]] in 2025.
-==== Politics and public service ====
+The Regional Offices with their founding year:
-* [[Michelle Bachelet]], politician, former president of Chile<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.daad.de/en/alumni/gallery/portrait/michelle-bachelet/ |title=Michelle Bachelet |website=www.daad.de |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> and former [[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights]]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[London]] (founded in 1927; reopened in 1952)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. |date=2006-11-23 |title=Außenstelle London - About us |url=http://www.daad.org.uk/en/11223/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106004131/http://www.daad.org.uk/en/11223/index.html |archive-date=2016-01-06 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.org.uk |language=de}}</ref>
-* [[Karl Lauterbach]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-05 |title=Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach |url=https://www.daad.de/de/alumni/galerie/portraet/prof-dr-karl-lauterbach/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=DAAD}}</ref> German scientist, physician, politician and [[Federal Ministry of Health (Germany)|Federal Minister of Health]] since 2021
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Cairo]] (1960)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Startseite |url=https://www.daad.eg/de/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.eg |language=de}}</ref>
-* [[William Ruto]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-03 |title=Präsident Dr. William Ruto trifft den DAAD Generalsekretär Dr. Kai Sicks in Berlin |url=https://www.daad-kenya.org/de/2023/04/03/praesident-dr-william-ruto-trifft-den-daad-generalsekretaer-dr-kai-sicks-in-berlin/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=DAAD Kenia}}</ref> Kenyan politician and fifth [[president of Kenya]]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[New Delhi]] (1960)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
-* [[Khin San Yi]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-10-23 |title=A minister on an educational trip |url=https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/knowledge/education-learning/a-minister-on-an-educational-trip |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=deutschland.de}}</ref> Burmese development economist, former [[Ministry of Education (Burma)|Minister for Education of Myanmar]] and [[Ministry of Science and Technology (Burma)|Minister for Science and Technology of Myanmar]]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Paris]] (1963)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accueil |url=https://www.daad-france.fr/fr/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad-france.fr |language=fr}}</ref>
-* [[Harold O. Levy|Harold Oscar Levy]], American lawyer, [[venture capital]] investor, educator and former Chancellor of the [[New York City Department of Education]]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[New York City]] (1971)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
-* [[Gitanas Nausėda]], Lithuanian politician, economist, banker and ninth [[president of Lithuania]]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Rio de Janeiro]] (1972)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. |date=2006-11-23 |title=Außenstelle Rio - No Brasil |url=http://www.daad.org.br/pt/18377/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226015402/http://www.daad.org.br/pt/18377/index.html |archive-date=2015-12-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.org.br |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Moscow]] (1973, 1993)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Nairobi]] (1973)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |title=Von Anfang an - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www.daad.de/der-daad/ueber-den-daad/portrait/de/32996-von-anfang-an/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102131514/https://www.daad.de/der-daad/ueber-den-daad/portrait/de/32996-von-anfang-an/ |archive-date=2018-11-02 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+*
-==== Academia and sience ====
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Tokyo]] (1978)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Jakarta]] (1990)[26]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Beijing]] (1994)<ref>{{Cite web |title=DAAD-Außenstelle Peking {{!}} DAAD |url=http://www.daad.org.cn/home/daad-in-china/daad-aussenstelle-peking |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626030032/http://www.daad.org.cn/home/daad-in-china/daad-aussenstelle-peking |archive-date=2018-06-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.org.cn |language=de-DE}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Warsaw]] (1997)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. |date=2006-11-23 |title=DAAD Niemiecka Centrala Wymiany Akademickiej - Über uns |url=http://www.daad.pl/de/09041/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226015408/http://www.daad.pl/de/09041/index.html |archive-date=2015-12-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.pl |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Mexico City]] (2001)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |title=Von Anfang an - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www.daad.de/der-daad/ueber-den-daad/portrait/de/32996-von-anfang-an/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102131514/https://www.daad.de/der-daad/ueber-den-daad/portrait/de/32996-von-anfang-an/ |archive-date=2018-11-02 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Hanoi]] (2003)<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. |date=2006-11-23 |title=Außenstelle Hanoi - Die DAAD-Außenstelle Hanoi |url=http://www.daadvn.org/de/25039/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226020239/http://www.daadvn.org/de/25039/index.html |archive-date=2015-12-26 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daadvn.org |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Brussels]] (2007)[31]
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Tunis]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Amman]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Bogotá]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht |url=https://www.daad.de/de/der-daad/kommunikation-publikationen/berichte/jahresbericht/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Tunis]] (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title= |url=https://static.daad.de/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/der-daad/web_jb_2021.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324093444/https://static.daad.de/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/der-daad/web_jb_2021.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-24 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=static.daad.de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Tbilisi|Tiflis]] (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title= |url=https://static.daad.de/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/der-daad/web_jb_2021.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324093444/https://static.daad.de/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/der-daad/web_jb_2021.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-24 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=static.daad.de}}</ref>
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Accra]] (2024)
+* DAAD Regional Office [[Central Asia]], based in [[Bishkek]] (2025)
-* [[Söhnke M. Bartram]], financial economist
+=== DAAD-Freundeskreis e. V. ===
-* [[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]], linguist and revivalist<ref>[https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/ghilad.zuckermann The University of Adelaide: Researcher's Profile], retrieved 16 September 2016.</ref>
+Foreign students on DAAD scholarships are supported in Germany by former German DAAD scholarship holders who are members of the DAAD-Freundeskreis e. V.
-* [[Claudia Kemfert]], German (environmental) economist and head of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the [[German Institute for Economic Research]] (DIW Berlin)
-* [[Juliane Kokott]], German [[Advocate General (European Union)|Advocate General]] at the [[Court of Justice of the European Union]] ''(CJEU)'' and [[Professor]] at the [[University of St. Gallen]]
-* [[Jennifer Hunt]], professor of economics at [[Rutgers University]], former deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis at the [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]] and former [[Chief economist|Chief Economist]] to the [[United States Secretary of Labor|U.S. Secretary of Labor]]
-==== Literature and journalism ====
+The Circle of Friends was founded in 1981 and has around 1500 members nationwide. There are regional groups in many university cities which organize the support of foreign scholarship holders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DAAD-Freundeskreis e.V. {{!}} DAAD-Alumniverein in Deutschland |url=https://www.daad-freundeskreis.de/de/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |language=de-DE}}</ref>
-* [[Jeffrey Eugenides]], American writer (e.g., ''Middlesex'') and winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (2003)
+DAAD friends groups and alumni associations of former foreign scholarship holders exist in many countries.
-* [[Margaret Atwood]], Canadian writer (e.g., ''The Handmaid’s Tale''), novelist, poet, [[literary critic]], inventor and two-times [[Booker Prize|Booker Prize Winner]]
-* [[Ryszard Kapuściński]], Polish journalist, photographer, poet, author and was considered a candidate for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]
-* [[Susan Sontag]], American writer, [[critic]], and [[public intellectual]]
-* [[Richard Ford]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sturm |first=Rüdiger |date=2023-08-19 |title=US-Autor Richard Ford: „Ich habe meinen Pakt mit dem Teufel gemacht“ |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/gesellschaft/interview-us-autor-richard-ford-ich-habe-meinen-pakt-mit-dem-teufel-gemacht-id67549206.html |access-date=2025-04-10 |work=Augsburger Allgemeine}}</ref> American [[novelist]], [[short story]] author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (''Independence Day)''
-* [[Cristina Rivera Garza]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-22 |title=Professor Cristina Rivera Garza to give 2024 lecture in Bedri Distinguished Writers Series |url=https://english.berkeley.edu/news/professor-cristina-rivera-garza-give-2024-lecture-bedri-distinguished-writers-series-0 |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=UC Berkeley}}</ref> [[List of Mexican-American writers|Mexican author]], professor, winner of Pulitzer Prize and [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]]
-* [[László Krasznahorkai]], Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
-* [[Carlos Fuentes]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-06-23 |title=Carlos Fuentes |url=https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/internationales/ehrungen/ehrendoktoren/fuentes.html |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI)}}</ref> Mexican novelist and essayist
-==== Film, theater and visual arts ====
+== Other ==
+According to a survey conducted in 2020, participants in the DAAD's Erasmus+ programs (around 79,000 participants) enter into living relationships with foreign partners (27%) twice as often as students who have not spent time abroad (13%). Furthermore, the unemployment rate for Erasmus+ students five years after graduation is 23% lower than for those who have not been abroad for study or training purposes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Studie zur Wirkung von Erasmus: Auslandsaufenthalte steigern Beschäftigungsfähigkeit und berufliche Mobilität |url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/de/https://ec.europa.eu//commission//presscorner//detail//de//ip_14_1025 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=European Commission - European Commission}}</ref>
-* [[Willie Doherty]], Irish artist and two-times [[Turner Prize]] nominee
+Since 2021, the DAAD has been supporting students who are formally or de facto denied the right to education or other basic rights in their home countries with the Hilde Domin programme.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hilde Domin-Programm |url=https://www.daad.de/de/in-deutschland-studieren/stipendien/daad-foerderprogramme/hilde-domin-programm/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
-* [[Jim Jarmusch]], American film director (e.g., ''Ghost Dog'', ''Paterson''), screenwriter and musician
-* [[Nam June Paik]], South Korean artist
-* [[Robert Wilson (director)|Bob Wilson]], American theatre director
-* [[Emmett Williams]], American [[Fluxus]] poet and visual artist
-* [[Sebastián Lelio]], Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer and winner of the [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] (''A Fantastic Woman'')
-==== Music and composition ====
+== Prizes ==
+'''Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize'''
-* [[Unsuk Chin]], South Korean composer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jetztmusik/chin-unsuk/-/id=659442/did=3056682/nid=659442/1hcyggp/index.html|title=Chin, Unsuk {{!}} JetztMusik {{!}} SWR2|date=2008-01-18|website=swr.online|language=de|access-date=2020-03-28|archive-date=2020-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328224841/https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jetztmusik/chin-unsuk/-/id%3D659442/did%3D3056682/nid%3D659442/1hcyggp/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+The DAAD awards an annual Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize to academics from abroad for “outstanding work in the fields of German literature and [[linguistics]], [[German as a foreign language]] and German studies”. The award, in memory of the linguists and founders of German studies [[Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm]], is endowed with 10,000 euros and is associated with a four-week research stay at a German university.[36][37] The Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize honors new scholars in the same research fields.
-* [[Krzysztof Penderecki]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Krzysztof Penderecki |url=https://www.daad.de/en/alumni/gallery/portrait/krzysztof-penderecki/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=DAAD}}</ref> Polish composer, conductor and holder of four [[Grammy Awards]]
-* [[Shelley Hirsch]], American vocalist, performance artist, composer, improviser and writer
-==== Design and architecture ====
+'''AA Prize'''
-*[[Philippa Lindenthal]], German fashion designer and professor
-*[[Thomas Spiegelhalter]], German-American academic and architect
-== Funding ==
+Together with the [[Federal Foreign Office]], the DAAD has awarded the Federal Foreign Office Prize for excellent support for foreign students at German universities (AA Prize), which has been awarded annually since 1998 (endowed with €20,000 since 2013<ref>{{Cite web |last=DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |title=Preis des Auswärtigen Amtes für exzellente Betreuung ausländischer Studierender an deutschen Hochschulen (AA-Preis) - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst |url=https://www.daad.de/hochschulen/betreuung/preise/de/14148-preis-des-auswaertigen-amtes-fuer-exzellente-betreuung-auslaendischer-studierender-an-deutschen-hochschulen-aa-preis/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413185656/https://www.daad.de/hochschulen/betreuung/preise/de/14148-preis-des-auswaertigen-amtes-fuer-exzellente-betreuung-auslaendischer-studierender-an-deutschen-hochschulen-aa-preis/ |archive-date=2018-04-13 |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>).
-The DAAD is mainly funded by the German government and the European Union. In 2017, the DAAD received 522 million Euro.<ref name=":0" />
-*[[Foreign Office (Germany)]]: EUR 185m
+'''University Integration Prize'''
-*[[Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)]]: EUR 137m
-*[[Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)]]: EUR 54m
-*[[European Union]]: EUR 110m
-*Others: EUR 36m
-==Leadership for Syria Programme==
+The “University Integration Prize for outstanding commitment to the integration of refugees who are able to study”, or University Integration Prize for short, has been awarded by the DAAD and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2021. The prize is intended to highlight particularly innovative and successful projects and initiatives, identify projects with a model character and encourage sustainable further development.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ausschreibung Hochschul-Integrationspreis |url=https://www.daad.de/de/infos-services-fuer-hochschulen/expertise-zu-themen-laendern-regionen/fluechtlinge-an-hochschulen/ausschreibung-hochschul-integrationspreis/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=www.daad.de |language=de}}</ref>
-During the fall of 2014, the DAAD, supported by the [[Foreign Office (Germany)|German Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], launched a program called the ''Leadership for Syria''.<ref name=GFP>{{cite web |url=http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58907 |title=Leadership for Syria |date=18 December 2015 |website=German-Foreign-Policy.com |publisher=German News Information Services GmbH |access-date=12 February 2016 |archive-date=9 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109232552/http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58907 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The declared aim of the program was to create "a select elite among Syria's future leadership" for "active participation in organizing" post-war Syria.<ref name=GFP/> In the initial stage of the program, 271 Syrians seen as suitable for university [[scholarship]]s were chosen from potential candidates who were "either still living in Syria or in one of the bordering countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey), or who had fled to Germany".<ref name=GFP/> The former were then brought to Germany to join those participants who were already there. The scholarships were to various universities throughout Germany. The German Foreign Office funded the bulk of the scholarships (200) with the balance being sponsored by [[Baden-Württemberg]] (50) and [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] (21).<ref name=GFP/> The scholarship [[curriculum]] included an introductory language course for those students who were not already fluent in, or otherwise had no prior knowledge of, [[German language|German]]. Alongside this was a concomitant obligatory element intended to imbue the planned future Syrian elite with the "fundamental and practical knowledge and skills in [[political sciences]], [[economics]], [[social sciences]], as well as [[Economic reconstruction|operational]] [[Integrity#Political integrity|competence]]."<ref name=GFP/>
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+*[https://www.daad.de/en/ Official website]
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