Unit 4: Help and support with financial issues

Scholarships

Scholarship programs aim to support individual students financially to promote young scientists.  

A variety of organizations and institutions award scholarships that may differ based on their professional orientation (general or specialized), selection procedure and their amount of funding.

Stipendien.Netzwerk Jena (in German only)

  • The scholarship network Jena is an association of active scholarship holders of different foundations in Jena. They offer a general overview of different scholarship options
  • Contact: stipendien.netzwerk.jena@gmail.com, Katharina Rapp

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (in English)

  • Database for different funding options 

Deutschlandstipendium (in English)

  • Scholarship program of the German Federal Government 
  • Promoting talented and dedicated students with a monthly scholarship of EUR 300  
  • Germany's largest organization for promoting talent

Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (in English)

  • Contact: hbsstips.jena@gmail.com, Katharina Rapp u. Maximilian Hagner

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (in English)

  • Contact: Daniela-Maria Mariș (daniela-maria.maris@kas.de), Dana Fiebig (dana.fiebig@kas.de)

Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (in German)

  • Contact: Tim Hebenstreit (tim.hebenstreit@uni-jena.de)

Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (in English)

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (in German)

Studienwerk der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in English)