Culture Management in China launched by the Goethe-Institute is a scholarship programme for further qualification of young prospective leaders in the field of Culture Management. Eligible for funding are cultural managers below the age of 40 years holding at least two years of practical working experience in the management of cultural centres (“multiplex”), performing arts institutions, festivals, music and cultural agencies, and museums in China. Annually the 15 to 20 participants are nominated by a nationwide advertised bidding in China. In seminars and practical training they acquire specialised knowledge on subject matters and structures of the German and European Culture Management.

In line with its fellowship-programme for journalists Media Ambassadors China-Germany the Robert-Bosch Foundation in cooperation with the Hamburg Media School every year awards fifteen fellowships to young Chinese and German journalists. Journalists from China are invited on a three-month fellowship to Germany, while German fellows spend three months in China. The fellows receive a stipend of € 1,000 per month.

The Managing Global Governance Programme launched by InWEnt Capacity Building International addresses itself to well-qualified young professionals possessing at least two years of vocational experience in government ministries, independent think tanks or research institutions from Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa. The Programme’s objective is the qualification of prospective young leaders for the complex task of creating global governance structures to meet future problems and risks emerging from processes of globalisation on a regional and global level.

Candidates will be nominated for application by their employers.

The Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation annually awards up to ten German Chancellor Fellowships for Prospective Leaders from the USA, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China to enable the realisation of a project of your own design in cooperation with a German host you have selected.

Applicants should have shown outstanding potential for future leadership in their previous career. The program addresses applicants from all professions and fields of study giving preference to the humanities, law, social and economic sciences, and also to the arts.