With this scholarship programme, you have the chance to complete your doctorate in Germany. The German Federal Foreign Office provides funding for the scholarships. Sri Lankan students are eligible to apply for this scholarship. The DAAD office in Sri Lanka collaborates with the German Embassy to facilitate applications and provide guidance to prospective candidates.

Basic Requirements

Status :

• Graduates

• PhD students

You can apply if you have above-average qualifications and you completed your Master’s degree or Diploma, or in exceptional cases a Bachelor’s degree, at the latest by the time the funding period begins.

Visit important information for scholarship applicants for more details on the requirements of each program.

Subject areas :

• Language and Cultural Studies

• Law, Economics and Social Sciences

• Mathematics/Natural Sciences

• Medicine

• Veterinärmedizin, Agrar-, Forst- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Ökologie

• Engineering

• Art, Music, Sport

About the Funding

The programme provides funding for a doctoral project at a state or state-recognised institution of higher education or a non-university research institute in Germany. This can be either:

• an individual project supervised by a university teacher (doctoral supervisor)

OR

• participation in a structured doctoral study programme

Research phases outside Germany can also be funded if these are critical for the successful completion of your doctoral degree. Another requirement is that the visits should constitute no more than one quarter of the anticipated total funding period. You must provide details about the planned visits in your study plan and time schedule in your application documents (see ‘Application documents’).

To enable you to improve your language skills in preparation for your stay in Germany, DAAD offers the following services:

• Payment of course fees for an online language course after receipt of the Scholarship Award Letter

• if necessary: Language course (2, 4 or 6 months) before the start of the research stay in Germany; the DAAD decides whether to fund the grant holder’s participation and for how long depending on language skills and project. If a language course scholarship is granted and the working language at the host institute is German, participation is compulsory.

• Allowance for a personally chosen German language course during the grant period

• Reimbursement of the fee for a TestDaF or DSH test, which you can take either in your home country after you have received your Scholarship Award Letter or in Germany during your funding period.

An independent selection committee consisting of specialist scientists reviews applications.

The selection criteria are :

1. Qualification

• Academic achievements (grade point average, development of grades)

• Academic progress

• Knowledge of the language(s) of instruction or working language(s)

• If applicable, scholarly achievements after graduation, (e.g. publications, lectures, conference papers)

2. Quality of research project

• Quality of research proposal and preparation (originality, topicality and relevance of the project, choice of host institution and first contacts)

• Feasibility and consistency of study plan and schedule

• Incorporation of project within the overall doctorate (in terms of content and time), if relevant

3. Potential of applicant

• Career prospects: significance of the research project and stay in Germany for further academic, professional and personal development

• Motivation: academic and personal reasons for wanting to visit Germany, German language skills (if different from working language)

• Non-study-related activities: non-study-related knowledge and skills, civic engagement

The selection committee also gives due consideration to equal opportunities; you can provide relevant information in the application form.

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Visit Doctoral Programmes in Germany, DAAD for more information.

Contact :

DAAD Sri Lanka
DAAD Information Centre Colombo
15th Floor, 127, W A D Ramanayake Mawatha
Colombo 2
Telephone: +94 11 231 43 64/67, Mobile: +94 71 162 5334
E-mail: info@daad-sri-lanka.org
Address: 15th Floor, 127 W A D Ramanayake Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka