Current Applications for the Deutschlandstipendium at the University of Greifswald 2024/25

To apply online, please fill out the application form on the Application Server. (First of all, you will be required to create an account)

Apply online here

The online form is only available during the application period (14/06/2024 - 26/07/2024).

Start your application by completing the application agreement (Bewerbungsvereinbarung), which you must sign print out and send to the University of Greifswald in paper form together with the other required documents (PDF and appendices). If you are not yet able to fill out all of the required information at once, you can interrupt the applying process and log in once again later.

It is up to you if you want to indicate your bank details. You can also add these once you have been granted a scholarship.

You must submit the following application documents with your online application (as PDF):

1. a current letter of motivation (max. 2 A4 pages, 1.5 line spacing, 12pt Arial)
2. a current tabular curriculum vitae (CV)
3. current transcript of records, which shows all of the examinations taken (issued by the Central Examination Office or the Office of the Dean of Studies at University Medicine or printout via the self-service portal HIS), or for university entrants - the certificate of your higher education entrance qualification/Abitur
4. certificates (higher education entrance qualification/Abitur, traineeship/apprenticeship, career, if applicable interim examination, Vordiplom, bachelor etc. For foreign certificates, a translation that compares the foreign achievements with the German system and conversion into the German grading system)
5. Enrolment Certificate for the current semester (if it already exists)
6. certificates and proof of internships, side jobs, participation in community projects, special skills and awards, etc.

All appendices can only be submitted in PDF format and must be named according to their content.

You will receive an application number immediately after submitting your application. Keep record of this number. You are able to add further proof and certificates to your previously submitted application up until the 26/07/2024.

The signed Application agreement must be sent no later than 05.08.2024 (date of receipt!) to

Universität Greifswald
Deutschland-Stipendium
Stabsstelle Justitiariat/Wahlamt/Stipendien

Frau Katrin Purps
Domstraße 11 3. Eingang OG
17489 Greifswald

The signed application agreement can also be sent as a PDF to Stabsstelle Stipendien.

Only applications that have been completed in full will be accepted, incomplete and/or applications that were not submitted within the application period will not be considered.

Only apply once! Multiple applications will not be considered.

Frequently asked questions you find here.

Students who received scholarships in 2023/2024 can apply for the extension of their scholarship as long as they are still within the regular length of study. Extensions to the regular length of studies should be applied for in good time at the University’s Students' Registration Office. The application for the extension of the scholarship is also only possible via the Application Server. Please specify here that you are applying for an extension.

You must attach the following current certificates of achievements as an appendix in PDF format:

1. Proof of credits gained during your studies (in particular exams, practicals, excursions),
2. Short evaluation from a member of teaching staff who was responsible for at least one examined module
3. Short description of your development since the last grant.

The Teilnahmeerklärung (application agreement) must be signed and sent by post to the University of Greifswald.

The applicants must be enrolled at the University of Greifswald by the start of the funding period at the latest and first-time applicants must still have at least two semesters of the regular length of study ahead of them.

Students up to the start of the second subject semester of an undergraduate degree course will be evaluated according to:

• the average mark of the higher education entrance qualification with particular emphasis to be put on the individual marks for subjects relevant to the degree course or
• the special qualification which grants the student access to a place for the relevant degree course at the University of Greifswald.

Relevant documents for students at more advances stages of their degrees are the credits that have already been gained, in particular the results of an interim examination or Vordiplom; for students doing master’s degrees, also the final mark of the preceding bachelor’s degree.

The following can also be included in the overall evaluation of the applicant’s potential:

• special achievements, awards und prizes,
• previous employment or subject-related internships,
• out-of-school or extracurricular activities such as voluntary work; involvement in civic, social or political activities, university politics or in religious associations, associations or societies,
• special personal or family circumstances, such as illnesses, disabilities, looking after own children, in particular as a single parent, or close relatives in need of care, working in a family-run business, professional employment during studies, family origin or migration background.