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Scholarships and grants at a glance
On this page you will find information about scholarships and grants.
There are many foundations and sponsorships that award scholarships. The award criteria are not always based on performance alone, but often also on social commitment or outstanding ideas and dedication to social interaction. Smaller foundations in particular sometimes have problems finding students for their scholarship programs because not enough students apply. On mystipendium.de one is helped to find out, which scholarship could fit to one. Here likewise the13 Begabtenförderungswerke are listed, which promote in Germany talentedand high performance students and Doktorand:innen .The height of the scholarship programs depends thereby on the height of the BAföGs.In contrast to BAföG,however, you donot have torepay the scholarship from the Begabtenförderungswerke. You can find more information about theBegabtenförderungswerke, as well as about various scholarship offers, on this page or at mystipendium.de.
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Some scholarships do not have a fixed letter of recommendation. Please feel free to contact professors and lecturers of your choice to obtain a letter of recommendation.
Overview of scholarships for the gifted
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Orientation and values:
Not ideologically bound
Requirements:
Promotion of people with all kinds of views, values, religions, etc.
Self-application or nomination
Spokesperson Health Department
Hr. Prof. David Martin (Medicine)
Hr. Prof. Johannes Michalak (Psychology)
Spokesperson WiGe Department
Hr. Prof. Marcel Tyrell (Kontakt über Frau Arntzen: Nadja.Arntzen@ uni-wh.de)
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the CDU party
Requirements:
Social, church or political commitment
Preferred:
Students without an academic family background and/or a migration background
Representative Health Department:
Mr. Prof. Stefan Zimmer (Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine) (contact via Friederike.Hartbecke@ uni-wh.de)
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the SPD party
Requirements:
Social and political commitment
Preferred:
Students without academic family background and/or migrant background.
- No representatives yet -
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Orientation:
Close to the German Trade Union Confederation
Values:
Participation & Empowerment
Requirements:
financial need
Involvement in a labour union or other socio-political field
Representative Health Department:
Fr. Prof. Claudia Kiessling (Medecine)
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the evangelical church
Requirements:
Membership of the evangelical church
Social commitment
- No representatives yet -
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the Catholic Church
Prerequisites:
Catholic faith and participation in the Church
Remaining standard period of study:
At least 5 semesters
Representative Health Department:
Hr. Prof. Boris Zernikow (Medicine)
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Orientation and values:
Is close to that of the CSU party
Requirements:
Work in student organisation, party, social sector or open or Church youth work.
Upper age limit:
32 years
- No representatives yet -
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Alignment and values:
Is close to the party the Greens
Values:
Sustainability, equity and democracy
Requirements:
Socio-political commitment
Personality, skills such as creativity, self-reflexivity or interculturality
- No representatives yet -
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the party DIE LINKE
Values:
Democratic socialism
Requirements:
Intensive social commitment
Preferences:
Women, the socially needy, students without an academic background and disabled
- No representative yet -
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Alignment and values:
Is close to the FDP party
Requirements:
Social (liberal) commitment
Representative Health Department:
Prof. Alexander Prange (Medicine)
Representative WiGe Department:
Prof. Heiko Kleve
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the Muslim faith
Prerequisites:
Muslim faith affiliation
Social commitment
Reasons why you choose Avicenna Studienwerk
Remaining standard period of study:
At least 4 semesters
- The Avicenna Studienwerk does not work with representatives as a matter of principle -
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Orientation and values:
Is close to the Jewish faith
Prerequisites:
Jewish faith affiliation (or dissertation on topics related to Jewish faith)
Social commitment
- No representative yet -
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Orientation and values:
Commitment, entrepreneurship and social responsibility
Requirements:
Social activity and social competence
Business or social studies major
Preferred:
Students without an academic family background
- no representatives yet -
- The advancement scholarship supports skilled workers with vocational training and practical experience in their first academic university studies.
- Funding is available for both full-time and part-time university studies.
- Professionals who have already been working for a more extended period can also apply for an advancement scholarship to open up new perspectives for their professional development through studies.
- Application is possible before the start of studies. Once accepted into the scholarship, students have one year to begin their studies - once enrolled, funding begins. Those who are already studying can apply in the first or second semester of their studies
Further Information is available here.
Stiftung Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (SBB)
Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH
Menuhinstraße 6, 53113 Bonn
0228 / 6 29 31-0
info@ sbb-stipendien.de
- Possibility of grant for final theses (master's thesis).
- Support for in-service qualification measures, degrees, and studies for postgraduates: subsidy for the cost of living and represents only a small proportion, measured against the total cost of studies.
- Application periods: March & April and September & October
- Requirements for the scholarship: Application immediately after enrollment and before starting studies, completed vocational training in nursing with exam grade "good", three years of professional activity after the exam, working in a nursing profession at the time of application, min. 25 years of age, rejection by BAföG funding, job-related further training between exam and scholarship application
Further information is available here.
Contact: dialog@ bbraun-stiftung.de
Information on funding opportunities abroad
For information on the various funding opportunities abroad click here
Germany Scholarship
Witten/Herdecke University has awarded several Germany Scholarships to students each year since 2011. The scholarships are financed by public and private funds. Scholarship recipients receive 300 euros per month for a total of two semesters. An application for further funding is possible after the end of a scholarship.
Both first-year students and students in higher semesters who demonstrate special potential and above-average performance are eligible for funding. In addition, social commitment, the willingness to take on responsibility, or special personal circumstances resulting, for example, from the individual's social background play a role.
Further information can be found on our homepage
Contact persons for the Deutschlandstipendium
Contact for students

Martina Knop
Universitätsförderung
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 44
58448 Witten
FEZ-E.080
Contact for faculty and staff

M.A. Katharina Bruder
Universitätsförderung
Projektmanagement
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 44
58448 Witten
FEZ-E.080