1. Existing tools and programmes to promote international learning and research mobility Programmes of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Warszawa July 6th, 2011
Benedikt Brisch
Head of Division Eastern Europe and CIS Kennedyallee 50 – D53175 Bonn - Germany

2. Outline
DAAD: Overall Structure and Goals
Scholarhips for Individuals
Supporting Mobility in the Framework of University-Cooperation
Results

3. Structure Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
A self-governing organisation of the German institutions of higher education
with 232 member institutions
and 123 student bodies 3

4. Offices in Bonn and Berlin Regional Offices Information Centres
Overview
President Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel
(starting: 01/2012)
Secretary General Dr. Dorothea Rüland
Vice-President Prof. Dr. Max Huber
Executive Comitee
Offices in Bonn and Berlin
Board of Trustees
General Assembly
Selection Committees
Regional Offices Information Centres
Universities
Student Bodies

5. DAAD - Budget 2011 373 Mio. EUR EU 51 Mio. € = 13,7% Other sources:
Federal Ministry of Cooperation and Development
34,9 Mio. € = 9,4%
373 Mio. EUR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 168 Mio. € = 45,10%
Federal Ministry of Education
85,8 Mio. € = 23%

6. Goals and expenditures (2010)
Internationalization
of German universities
Increasing the international
appeal of German universities
and promoting
the international dimension in
German higher education
€ 75 m
Scholarships for foreigners
Supporting future foreign elites
at German universities and research institutes
€ 83 m
Scholarships
for Germans
Supporting future German
Leaders in their studies and
Research abroad
(including ERASMUS)
€ 111 m
Promoting
German Studies and
the German language
abroad
Promoting the German language
and German Studies
at foreign universities
€ 47 m
Educational
cooperation with
developing countries
Promoting academic, economic,
and democratic development
in developing and reform countries
€ 76 m

7. DAAD-Lecturers in the Countries of the Eastern Partnership
Belarus IC Lecturer - Dr. Michael Klees 4 Lecturer for German language 1 Lecturer for technical German language
Ukraine IC Lecturer - Florian Küchler 12 Lecturer 2 Lecturers for technical German language
1 Long term lecturer
Moldova
1 Lecturer - Sophia Bellmann
Azerbaijan IC Lecturer - Andrej Götze
Georgia –
1 IC Lecturer - Dr. Elisabeth Venohr
2 Lecturers
1 Longterm Lecturer
Armenia – 1 IC Lecturer - Tine Laufer 7

8. Scholarships for Incoming and Outgoing Students and Academics
Foreigners
Germans
For graduated, postdocs: one-year-grant and short-term-grant for research, doctoral scholarships, research stay for academics
Individual-
Scholarships
For students: scholarships for master students, summer schools, language courses at different level, special group travels, Go East-summer school scholarships,
Project Grants
Regional programmes: Courses taught in German language (DSG), eastern partnerships, programme for the prevention of conflicts, assistance of the democratic process in Ukraine, bachelor plus, double degree programme, Go East – Semester-Scholarships 8

9. Scholarships for Incoming and Outgoing Students and Academics
The best and brightest are supported with individual mobility grants no matter whether they are
foreigners or Germans
scientists or artists
undergraduates, graduates, PhDs, postdocs,
Grants available for
general scholarship schemes open to all subjects, countries and for all host institutions
specific programes, e.g. for
certain regions, certain elite institutions, fields with special relevance for international cooperation

10. Enhancing framework conditions for international students
…such as
improving legislative conditions relating to visa and general status conditions as well as work permits
securing reliable and transparent admission procedures
offering foreign student tutoring and guidance
providing affordable and suitable student accommodation
consciousness-raising initiatives and campaigns in Germany
offering more and better opportunities to learn and test the German language abroad (introduction of TestDaF, developing distance learning courses)

11. Offshore activities of German Universities What is “German” about these off-shore activities?
Place/ University
Country
Place
Partner University
Study Courses
Degree
Rostock U
Armenia
Erevan
U Erevan
Informatics
Master
Würzburg U
Azerbaijan
Baku
U Baku
Laws
LL.M
Jena U
Georgia
Tbilisi
Ivane-Javakhishvili-U Tbilisi
Business Administration/ Economics
curricula from German Universities
German accreditation
degrees from German partner universities
representatives of German partner universities as members of governing boards
professors and lecturers from Germany
integrated study and research periods in Germany
intensive German language training
scholarships to Germany for the best graduates
cooperation with German industry 11

12. Bachelor Plus Programme / Double Degree Programme
Foreign Country
Germany
Developing four year-Bachelors with compulsory year abroad
course of study with an international profile and special
qualifications for professional integration, full recognition of credits
gained at the partner university by home university
Developing Double or Joint Degree Courses with
Foreign Partners
course of study with obligatory periods of at least one
year at a partner university abroad leading either to a joint
or a double degree from each university
Funding: structural and mobility costs up to € p.a.

13. Campaign for more mobility Go East
started in 2002
about 5,000 scholarships
35 Summer schools with 336 scholars in 27 countries in Eastern Europe in 2010
Internships – Semester Scholarships
Summer Schools at Eastern European Universities in 2011: e.g.
Belarus - Actual Environmental Problems of the XXIth century
Azerbaijan - Energy Security and challenges in South Caucasus and Central Asia
Moldova - Migration, minorities, human rights – socio-political challenges in the neighbouring states of the EU: Moldova and Ukraine
Ukraine - Ukraine today: social, political and cultural change before and after the orange revolution

14. Ostpartnerschaften - Eastern Partnerships
initiated in 1973 to develop the partnership between the BRD and Soviet Union
start with 9 applications in 1974 and
A financial volume of 2.2 EURO in 2010
with 411 partnerships and 4,463 sponsored persons
Ukraine
28 Partnerships
113 Ger./ 190 Ukr.
Belarus
11 Partnerships
36 Ger./ 56 Bela.
Azerbaijan
5 partnerships
5 Ger./ 12 Azer.
Armenia
6 partnerships
5 Ger./ 18 Arm.
Georgia
9 partnerships
13 Ger./ 26 Geor.

15. Ukraine Georgia Belarus Armenia
DSG – Study Programms in German Language
initiated in 1993 to promote the German language in Eastern Countries and to support students in special fields with required German terminology
Started with 23 courses taught in German language, actually 28,
within these academic mobility of 614 persons in 2010
a financial volume of 1.3 TEURO in 2010
Ukraine
4 Partner Programmes
117 Persons
Georgia
1 Partner Program
21 Persons
Belarus
1 Partner Program
23 Persons
Armenia
1 Partner Program
Start: in 2011 15

16. Results: Mobility Trends over the 20 years
Foreign students
in Germany
German students
abroad
German students in the ERASMUS
programme
source:

17. Mobility trends for the countries of the Eastern Partnership (2009 – 2001)
2010
2008
2009
100
200
300
400
500
Belarus
2008
2009
2010
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
Ukraine
2008
2009
2010 20 40 60 80
100
120
140
160
2008
2009
2010
100
200
300
400
500
Moldova
Georgia
2008
2009
2010
200
400
800
1000
2008
2009
2010
100
200
300
400
600
Armenia
Azerbaijan 17

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