Call for Applications – Innovators, Doers and Entrepreneurs at Summer School (IDEAS)

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with financial support provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), supports academic qualification measures for individuals from developing countries who participate in the In-Country/In-Region Programme. Every year, the DAAD awards more than 700 BMZ-funded scholarships to junior researchers from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia, and South Asia to help finance their Master’s or Ph.D. programs in their home country or region. The program aims to enable trained professionals to address and deal with diverse societal, economic and ecological issues in developing countries.

A further objective is to sustainably improve the teaching and research conditions in the partner regions and to strengthen their higher education profile. As an additional offer for scholarship holders of the In- Country/In-Region Programme, the DAAD cooperates with German universities in organizing a range of summer schools in Germany. These measures allow the students and young researchers to take part in high-class academic training in a selected subject area, meet and exchange with peers from across the world, and make their own, unique experiences of German society, culture, and history.