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DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals from Developing Countries

Who can apply

Young professionals from developing countries (DAC countries) who meet all of the following requirements:

  • have an academic degree, that is not older than six years at the time of application (October 2025)
  • have a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience (post Bachelor, at the time of application); internships and volontary work are not accepted

Note that employment in academia, like teaching and research at a university or research institute, is not considered relevant work experience for this scholarship type; only in very exceptional cases can it be accepted.

  • have an academic degree above average (upper third)
  • having resided in Germany for no more than 15 months before applying

Application documents

1.    DAAD Application Form (download DAAD Application Form), don´t forget date of issue

All information provided on the DAAD application form must match the information in your letter of motivation, in your CV, in applications to other degree programmes and in applications to other scholarship programmes.

2.    MEG online application form (link to be published by 1 July)

3.    Letter of Motivation, following this MEG_DAAD Guideline, don´t forget date of issue.

4.  CV

5. Transcript of Records

6. University degree certificate

 7. Certificate for professional experience relevant to MEG 

8. Two recommendation letters

10. Signed DAAD checklist    

11. APS Certificate

 12.Submit:

  • Please merge all the above listed documents  in one single PDF file and upload them in the MEG online application form (see above point 2). Please put the documents in the following  order:

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