Info For You Lot German Authorities (Daad) Scholarship Programmes For Nigerian Students

DAAD Scholarship Programmes for Nigerian Students

Course(s) Offered: Several fields
Course Level: Postgraduate (masters, PhD, research)
Provider: DAAD
Country to Study in: Nigeria, Germany

Scholarship Description
If you lot would similar to report inwards Germany, DAAD is pleased to welcome you lot in addition to is willing to attention you lot conduct an appropriate programme, finance your stay, in addition to furnish data on how unusual students alive inwards in addition to are supervised inwards Germany.

DAAD Scholarship Programmes accept benefited hundreds of African students since inception. The scholarship is offered to students from developing countries in addition to is too available for Nigerian Students.

Each year, DAAD scholarship are awarded to postgraduate students wishing to report for a Master’s or PhD degree. The DAAD scholarships tin back upward students who desire to report inwards their province (i.e. In Country Scholarships) or abroad.

DAAD does non sponsor undergraduate studies for Nigerian Students.

Eligibility
Requirements in addition to Selection Criteria:

• Bachelor marking firstly marking honours or minute marking honours upper partitioning (B.A./B.Sc. sec marking upper division) in addition to M.A./M.Sc.
• At the fourth dimension of application, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non no to a greater extent than than 6 years should accept passed since the applicant gained the terminal degree
• 2 champaign inquiry phases (of altogether 12 months) are possible inwards your habitation country
• As a rule, the grant is preceded past times a iv or 6 months lasting linguistic communication course of report (selection appointment is i time a year, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non at the cease of January).
• German linguistic communication skills are non expected.
• Age limit: 36 years

Eligible groups
The scholarships on this page are country-specific for students of Nigerian origin

Participating Institutions
Any province (public) or state-recognised higher educational establishment or non-university inquiry institute inwards your habitation province (Nigeria) and/or inwards Germany

List of available awards for Nigerians

• Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates in addition to Young Academics in addition to Scientists:
  Research grants to run for to a greater extent than than 6 months
  Application deadline: fifteen Oct each year
  During the funding a maximum of two champaign inquiry phases inwards your habitation province (of altogether 12 months) are possible.
  Please regard that the get-go of your grant tin solely live inwards Apr or October.
• Grants inwards accordance amongst the DAAD Sandwich Model:
  Application deadline: fifteen Oct each year
  During the funding a maximum of two champaign inquiry phases inwards your habitation province (of altogether 12 months) are possible. The Doctorate marking has to live gained inwards the habitation country.
  Proof of enrollment every bit Doctoral pupil at the habitation academy must live enclosed.
  Please regard that the get-go of your grant tin solely live inwards Apr or October. As a rule, the grant is preceded past times a iv or 6 months lasting linguistic communication course of report (selection appointment is i time a year, to a greater extent than ofttimes than non at the cease of January).
• Research grants to run for 1 calendar month upward to 6 months
  Application deadline: fifteen Oct each year
  Earliest commencement of the grant is 1 May.
• Research stays for University Academics in addition to Scientists:
  Application deadlines:
  1 Oct for stays every bit of Feb of the next year,
  1 Apr for stays every bit of August.
• Re-invitation Programme for Former Scholarship Holders:
  Application deadlines:
  1 Oct for stays every bit of Feb of the next year,
  1 Apr for stays every bit of August.
• Scholarships for Artists in addition to Architects: Study Scholarships:
  Application deadline: fifteen Oct each year
  Together amongst the consummate application documents a function sample has to live submitted.
• Scholarships for University Students Reading High German Studies:
  These grants are offered inside the range of:
  a) Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates in addition to Young Academics in addition to Scientists (more than 6 months; upward to 6 months; at the fourth dimension of application)
  b) One-Semester Scholarships for University Students Reading High German Studies
  c) Study Scholarships for Graduates of All Disciplines
  d) Summer course of report grants
  Application deadline: fifteen Oct each twelvemonth (exception Summer Course grants: fifteen December). Receipt of applications for Summer Course grants at DAAD: 1 Feb of the next year.
• University Summer Course Grants for Foreign Students in addition to Graduates:
  Application deadline: fifteen Dec each year.
  Receipt of applications for Summer Course grants at DAAD: 1 Feb of the next year.

Please greenback that inwards almost cases, intended champaign inquiry phases accept already to live mentioned amongst the application. Also High German linguistic communication skills is non expected.

Number of awards
Not specified past times provider, simply several would live awarded

Sponsorship duration
Variable for the dissimilar programmes. Please catch the official website (link establish below) for to a greater extent than on duration allowed.

Scholarship benefits
The DAAD volition reimburse an appropriate flat-rate locomote allowance afterward the applicant’s arrival inwards Germany. So delight bring out that the locomote expenses accept to live financed inwards advance.

Method of Application
Please note: You tin bring out the appropriate announcements for the chosen programme inwards the DAAD Scholarship Database.

Application papers:

• Detailed data on what application papers bespeak to live submitted tin live establish on the Application Forms / Download spider web page or from the Nigerian High German Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany, from DAAD Lektors, from the DAAD regional offices or Information in addition to Advice Centres, in addition to from partner organisations.
• The DAAD volition non consider incomplete applications.

DEADLINES:
Generally, simply non for all scholarship programmes, the deadline is to a greater extent than or less September-October each year. See 'List of awards for Nigerians' inwards a higher house for specific dates.

Please note:
See contact addresses below for farther data in addition to advise.

Contact
These are addresses you lot tin contact for farther data in addition to advice (Note: If you lot wish, you lot may desire to access other country-specific pages at www.daad.de/stipendien):

Application address for these Provinces:
Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Kogi, FCT Abuja, Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kaduna, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
nine Lake Maracaibo Close, off Amazon Street
Maitama
P.O.B. 5177
Wuse
Abuja, F.C.T.
Tel.: (+234) nine 220 8010/11/12; -805 880 8800; -706 410 8800
Fax: (+234) nine 220 8009

Application address for these Provinces:
Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Lagos, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Abia, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
15, Walter Carrington Crescent
Victoria Island
Lagos
Tel.: (+234) -1 280 9966/67
Fax: (+234) -1 280 9969

Further data in addition to advice
DAAD-Lektor:
Sabine Adelio (till xxx June 2012)
University of Ibadan
Faculty of Arts
Department of European Studies
Ibadan
Oyo State / Nigeria
E-Mail: sabineadelio@yahoo.com

Application Deadline: Several (see 'DEADLINES' above)
Open to International students: No(ONLY Nigerians)

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