International Research Cooperations

The support programmes that are presented at this page are addressed to German and foreign universities and research institutions, that aim an increasing of scientist exchange and higher education partnerships.

The German Academic Excchange Service (DAAD) supports international cooperation programmes of German universities to advance research, teaching and mentoring.

The Summer Academies provides students and scientists from abroad an insight in German research institutions.

The Integrated International Double Degree Programme supports study courses that graduating at German and foreign institutes for higher education and awarding a double degree of both nationalities.

The sponsorship of Innovation in the Teaching aims to strengthen the international dimension in the instructions.

The Guest Lecturer Programme promotes the teaching of foreign scientists at German universities.

The bi national promotion net work affords transnational graduations for foreign doctoral candidates.

The programme International Promotion in Germany supports international directed promotion programmes.

With the programme Study Ranges of German Universities Abroad German universities should be establish in international education.

The programme Internationale Marketing by Summer Schools Abroad conduces to attract highly qualified scientists and to further academic cooperation on an international level.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports international partnership of higher education institutions in order to strengthen contacts with Germany and to foster the German language.

International Study and Training Partnerships are institutional cooperation structures between German and foreign higher education institutions on which German and foreign students can complete a full accepted part of their study at a partner university.

The programme Germanistic Institute Relationships (GIP) fosters the German language abroad.

DIES Partnerships with Higher Education Institutions in Development Countries aim to establish training and further education courses on topics of university management.

The programme Subject-Related Partnerships with Institutions of Higher Education enables the cooperation of German universities with higher education institutions in developing countries.

The East Partnership Programme provides the relationships of higher education institutions between Germany and the countries of Central, East and South-East Europe.

The programme German-Arab/Iranian Higher Education Dialogue focuses on the cultural dialogue with the Islamic world.

In line with the German Iraqi Academic Exchange Programm tabadul partnerships between German and Iraqi universities are supported.

The Partnership Programme with Japan and Korea initiates and intensifies the person’s exchange in line with the relationship with Japanese and Korean higher education institutions.

UNIBRAL fosters the cooperation and exchange of German and Brazilian students, postdoctoral scientists and professors.

With the Stability Pact Afghanistan academic rebuilding in Afghanistan should be coordinated.

The Stability Pact South-East Europe supports project-oriented partnerships between German and South-East European universities.

The Sur-Place-Scholarship Programme aims to intensify contacts of young Bosnian Herzegovinian scientists to German universities and to provide joint research projects.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has special programmes for looking after and follow-up of international students.

The Alumni Programme supports German higher education institutions in looking after and relationship of Alumni from abroad.

With the programme PROFIN the integration of foreign students will be advanced.

The programme PROFIS maintains projects improving the basic conditions for students from abroad.

The scholarship and support programme STIBET improves the mentoring of foreign students and postgraduates.

The European Union provides a set of support programmes for academic cooperation and the improvement of mobility of students, graduates and scientists.

The programme Erasmus Mundus is an interworking and mobility programme enhancing the cooperation in the field of academic education and the intercultural understanding of third countries.

Tempus is an cooperation programme for higher education institutions of the European Union for the interaction with countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the western Balkan and the southern Mediterranean.

With the programme EU Third Countries Cooperation the academic interworking with third countries in Asia/Oceania, North and South America will be intensify.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) awards financial support to German universities and research institutes for exploratory activities and the preparation of projects inclusively feasibility studies and pilot investigations.

A special main focus is at the regions Western, Northern and Southern Europe, Central, Eastern and South East Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Turkey, Israel, Arab Countries and Africa, North and South America as well as Asian-Pacific Region.

The EU cooperation with third countries aims to internationalise the European research area and to intensify the international cooperation.

The German Research Association (DFG) supports cooperation with international partners in all of its funding programmes and with a multitude of instruments.

International research collaborations may be funded either as part of individual projects or in the context of coordinated programmes.

Regional and country-specific funding measures are supported in line with existing relationships between Germany and partner organisations abroad in all countries.