DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals from Developing Countries 2025

The “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) has selected the MSc Environmental Governance (MEG)  as a development-related postgraduate course and so the programme can offer a limited number of EPOS Scholarships. Candidates will be selected first by the programme committee of the MEG programme. In a second step, DAAD will check our selection carefully and decide upon the candidates.

This is a highly competitive application process with strict requirements. Scholarship applicants must fulfill both the DAAD EPOS requirements AND the admission criteria for the MEG programme.

• Table of Content
• About DAAD
• DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals
• Requirements for DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals

Requirements for DAAD/EPOS Scholarships for Young Professionals Qualification

Young professionals from developing countries (DAC countries) who meet all of the following requirements:

• have an academic degree, that is not older than six years at the time of application (October 2025)
• have a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience (post Bachelor, at the time of application); internships and volontary work are not accepted

Note that employment in academia, like teaching and research at a university or research institute, is not considered relevant work experience for this scholarship type; only in very exceptional cases can it be accepted.

• have an academic degree above average (upper third)
• having resided in Germany for no more than 15 months before applying

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, Universität Freiburg Scholarship webpage