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Name
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
Sponsoring the gifted
Germany’s oldest and largest sponsorship organisation for the academically gifted is non-political, non-denominational and ideologically independent.
Mission
Promoting higher education for students whose special academic or artistic talents promise to be of particular benefit to society.
History
Founded in Dresden in 1925; abolished in1934; re-founded in Cologne in 1948.
Locations
Central office in Bonn; branch office in Berlin since 2002.
Legal form
Registered association with a Board, Board of Trustees and General Meeting.
Financing
The budget, slightly in excess of 65 million € (2010), is funded by the Federal Government, the Federal States, numerous foundations and more than 6,000 private donors.
Patron
Federal President Christian Wulff
President
Since December 2011, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Reinhard Zimmermann is Honorary President of the Studienstiftung. He ist Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg.
Secretary General
Dr. Gerhard Teufel, Head of the Central Office since 1995.
Staff
Approx. 100 permanent staff, flanked by more than 700 tutors, more than 1,600 commission members and 350 lecturers volunteering every year.
Scholars
Currently, about 10,500 students at universities, colleges of art and music and universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen), i.e., 0.5 per cent of all students in Germany; in addition, about 950 doctoral students. Every year, about 2,500 new scholars are admitted to the Studienstiftung .
Alumni
Since it was founded the Studienstiftung has sponsored more than 50,000 scholars.
Admission
To be admitted to the Studienstiftung you have to be nominated or you can apply with a test. The nominadet candidates and the most succesfull test participants are inviled to an admission seminar. You may also apply directly in the context of certain fellowship programmes with collaborative partners.
Criteria
Achievement, initiative, sense of social responsibility
Scholarship
For students: € 150 per month (it is envisaged to raise the amount to € 300 in 2013); an additional subsistence scholarship of € 597 maximum, depending on parental income. For doctoral students: subsistence scholarship of € 1050 per month plus a research grant of € 100. Additional scholarships for visits abroad.
Non-material sponsorship
Student advice and a wide range of language courses, summer academies, academic Kollegs, doctoral forums, open days on working in academia, business and teaching.
as of: December 2011