PhD candidates who are passionate about the environment, unite! In order to help you with your study, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) is providing significant scholarships in 2024.
Highly motivated professionals from a variety of disciplines, such as environmental science, engineering, social sciences, and more, are the target audience for this esteemed program. This scholarship opportunity may be ideal for you if you are committed to tackling urgent environmental issues and your doctoral thesis is in line with Germany’s sustainability objectives. Continue reading to find out more about the DBU scholarship’s monetary rewards, growth prospects, and prerequisites.
The goals of DBU are to train environmental experts, find new information and solutions to environmental problems, assist ambitious PhD students in finishing their degrees in three years, and create a network of professionals from various fields to work together on environmental issues.
Host Country: Germany
University Name: Germany Universities
Degree Level: PhD
Financial Benefits: Fully Funded
Eligibility Criteria:
- Any academic discipline, including science, engineering, social sciences, humanities, law, and economics, is eligible to apply. We particularly encourage projects that bring together many fields of research to address environmental problems.
- In addition to having a stellar academic record (above average marks), you should be passionate about supporting sustainable development and finding answers to environmental issues.
Requirements for Applications:
- German language fluency is required as all application materials must be submitted in that language.
- As part of your program, you can study overseas, but the primary research should be done at a German university.
- Make sure you submit your application on time and in full. Applications are limited to one per research group.
- This is not a scholarship for colleges; it is for individual students.
- Never submit a wide research topic that hasn’t been previously addressed with the DBU.
- You are not eligible to reapply if your application is denied.
Important Standards:
- Students that wish to use their studies to find solutions to environmental issues.
- students with solid academic credentials in any discipline.
- A neatly structured and unambiguous application.
- research centred on German environmental issues or issues affecting Germany globally.
- Students who will begin a PhD program at a German university with a maximum of one year of postgraduate research.
Benefits:
Financial Support:
- Up to three years’ worth of funding (36 months).
- A living expense allotment of €1,600 per month.
- Additional funding of up to €210 per month is available for supplies such as books and research equipment.
- eligibility for further forms of assistance as well as a monthly kid supplement.
Assistance and Linking:
- designated DBU advisors for individualised counsel and direction during your academic career.
- Possibilities to engage in field trips (one week per year), share research findings, and brainstorm with other scholarship recipients.
- support in setting up your own seminars or conferences in your area of study.
- invitations to a number of DBU functions, even after your scholarship has ended, such as the Environmental Award Ceremony and the Summer Academy.
- access to an online community where recipients of other scholarships and graduates can interact and network.
Deadline: As web Updated
