Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS) 2025

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports a carefully selected number of programmes for the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries. 

With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries. Well-trained local experts, who are networked with international partners, play an important part in the sustainable development of their countries. They are the best guarantee for a better future with less poverty, more education and health for all. The scholarships offer foreign graduates from development and newly industrialised countries from all disciplines and with at least two years' professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master's degree at a state or state-recognised German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master's/PhD) in Germany.

• Table of Content
• About Freie University Berlin
• Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)
• Aim and Benefits of Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)
• Requirements for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS) Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)

Aim and Benefits of Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)

• Depending on academic level, monthly payments of 992 euros for graduates or 1,300 euros for doctoral candidates
• Payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover
• Travel allowance, unless these expenses are covered by the home country or another source of funding

Under certain circumstances, scholarship holders may receive the following additional benefits:

• Monthly rent subsidy
• Monthly allowance for accompanying members of family

Requirements for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS) Qualification

Graduates with at least two years' professional experience from the following countries: list of eligible countries

Interview date, Process and Venue for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS)

• Candidates fulfil the necessary academic requirements and can be expected to successfully complete a study programme in Germany (above-average result for first academic exam – top performance third, language skills)
• Candidates have a Bachelor degree (usually a four-year course) in an appropriate subject
• Candidates have at least two years' professional experience
• Candidates can prove their motivation is development-related and be expected to take on social responsibility and initiate and support processes of change in their personal and professional environment after their training/scholarship

Check also:
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2027
Global Korea Scholarship 2027

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Freie University Berlin Scholarship webpage