DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals from Developing Countries 2027/2028 – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Applications are open for the DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals from Developing Countries 2027/2028. The “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) has chosen the MSc Environmental Governance (MEG) as a growth-associated postgraduate course and so the programme can provide a restricted variety of EPOS Scholarships.

Candidates shall be chosen first by the programme committee of the MEG programme. In a second step, DAAD will check the choice rigorously and resolve upon the candidates. This is a extremely aggressive application course of with strict necessities. Scholarship candidates should fulfill each the DAAD EPOS necessities AND the admission standards for the MEG programme.

Scholarship

• Depending on tutorial degree, month-to-month funds of 992 euros for graduates or 1,300 euros (1,400 euros starting with February 2026) for doctoral candidates
• Payments in the direction of well being, accident and private legal responsibility insurance coverage cowl
• Travel allowance, until these bills are coated by the home nation or one other supply of funding

Under sure circumstances, scholarship holders could obtain the next further advantages:

• Monthly hire subsidy
• Monthly allowance for accompanying members of household

Eligibility

Open to younger professionals from creating nations (DAC nations) who meet all of the next necessities:

• have a tutorial diploma, that isn’t older than six years on the time of application (October 2026).
• have a minimal of two years of related skilled expertise (put up Bachelor, on the time of application); internships and volontary work will not be accepted. Note that employment in academia, like instructing and analysis at a college or analysis institute, isn’t thought of related work expertise for this scholarship kind; solely in very distinctive circumstances can or not it’s accepted.
• have a tutorial diploma above common (higher third).
• having resided in Germany for not more than 15 months earlier than making use of.

Application

• All paperwork listed, underneath Application Documents, have to be compressed or merged as one single PDF file after which be despatched to [email protected]
• Incomplete functions can’t be thought of. 
• Referees must ship their reference letters on to [email protected], to not the applicant.
• If you submit the paperwork listed, there is no such thing as a must submit further paperwork required within the DAAD application type (e.g. mission define).

For extra info, go to DAAD-EPOS Scholarship.