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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; Template:Langx), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Since 1 January 2020, the president has been Joybrato Mukherjee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
OrganisationEdit
DAAD is a private, federally funded and state-funded, self-governing national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany, representing 365 German higher education institutions (100 universities and technical universities, 162 general universities of applied sciences, and 52 colleges of music and art) [2003].
The DAAD itself does not offer programs of study or courses, but awards competitive, merit-based grants for use toward study and/or research in Germany at any of the accredited German institutions of higher education. It also awards grants to German students, doctoral students, and scholars for studies and research abroad. With an annual budget of 522 million Euros and supporting approximately 140.000 individuals world-wide,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the DAAD is in fact the largest such academic grant organisation worldwide<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The organisation was founded on 1 January 1925 but closed down in 1945, only to be re-founded again in 1950.<ref name=":1" />
Headquarters and regional officesEdit
The DAAD headquarters are in Bonn and there are 21 regional offices that exist to provide information and advice on study and research opportunities, as well as available grants, tailored to students and academics within their region.
The DAAD New York office serves residents of the United States and Canada who are enrolled or employed at American and Canadian higher education institutions and would like to study or pursue research in Germany. From the perspective of this side of the exchange, the DAAD's mission is to facilitate American and Canadian students' access to the distinguished German institutions of higher education and research—from research universities (Universitäten) to universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschule), colleges of music and art, libraries and archives, and research institutions such as the Max Planck Institutes.
DAAD scholarships and programmesEdit
The DAAD scholarship grants<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> administered by the DAAD abroad are available to students of all academic disciplines and at each academic degree level, including undergraduates, graduating undergraduates and recent graduates with a BA, master's degree students, doctoral students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars, and faculty.
The DAAD worldwide network also includes around 50 information centers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and around 450 DAAD lecturer positions. DAAD scholarship is one of the top scholarships offered by European country Germany for outstanding international students. Every year Students are selected on merit basis and offered a DAAD scholarship to study postgraduate degree masters and PhD in German universities.
Notable DAAD AlumniEdit
DAAD alumni have occupied key roles in government, academia and industry. The alumni include winners of prestigious awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Grammy Awards, Academy Awards (Oscars) as well as several heads of state.
Additionally, at least 12 Nobel Prize Winners are DAAD alumni.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For example, Günter Blobel (1999),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gao Xingjian (2000),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Wolfgang Ketterle (2001),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Imre Kertész (2002), Wangari Maathai (2004),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Herta Müller (2009),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Mario Vargas Llosa (2009), Svetlana Alexievich (2015), Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (2017),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Olga Tokarczuk (2018), Peter Handke (2019),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reinhard Genzel (2020)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and others.
List of notable DAAD alumniEdit
Politics and public serviceEdit
- Michelle Bachelet, politician, former president of Chile<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Karl Lauterbach,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- William Ruto,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Khin San Yi,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Harold Oscar Levy, American lawyer, venture capital investor, educator and former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
- Gitanas Nausėda, Lithuanian politician, economist, banker and ninth president of Lithuania
Academia and sienceEdit
- Söhnke M. Bartram, financial economist
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist and revivalist<ref>The University of Adelaide: Researcher's Profile, retrieved 16 September 2016.</ref>
- Claudia Kemfert, German (environmental) economist and head of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- Juliane Kokott, German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen
- Jennifer Hunt, professor of economics at Rutgers University, former deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and former Chief Economist to the U.S. Secretary of Labor
Literature and journalismEdit
- Jeffrey Eugenides, American writer (e.g., Middlesex) and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2003)
- Margaret Atwood, Canadia writer (e.g., The Handmaid’s Tale), novelist, poet, literary critic, inventor and two-times Booker Prize Winner
- Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, photographer, poet, author and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Susan Sontag, American writer, critic, and public intellectual
- Richard Ford,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> American novelist, short story author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (Independence Day)
- Cristina Rivera Garza,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
- Carlos Fuentes,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Film, theater and visual artsEdit
- Willie Doherty, Irish artist and two-times Turner Prize nominee
- Jim Jarmusch, American film director (e.g., Ghost Dog, Paterson), screenwriter and musician
- Nam June Paik, South Korean artist
- Bob Wilson, American theatre director
- Emmett Williams, American Fluxus poet and visual artist
- Sebastián Lelio, Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer and winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (A Fantastic Woman)
Music and compositionEdit
- Unsuk Chin, South Korean composer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Krzysztof Penderecki,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Shelley Hirsch, American vocalist, performance artist, composer, improviser and writer
Design and architectureEdit
- Philippa Lindenthal, German fashion designer and professor
- Thomas Spiegelhalter, German-American academic and architect
FundingEdit
The DAAD is mainly funded by the German government and the European Union. In 2017, the DAAD received 522 million Euro.<ref name=":0" />
- Foreign Office (Germany): EUR 185m
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany): EUR 137m
- Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany): EUR 54m
- European Union: EUR 110m
- Others: EUR 36m
Leadership for Syria ProgrammeEdit
During the fall of 2014, the DAAD, supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, launched a program called the Leadership for Syria.<ref name=GFP>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The declared aim of the program was to create "a select elite among Syria's future leadership" for "active participation in organizing" post-war Syria.<ref name=GFP/> In the initial stage of the program, 271 Syrians seen as suitable for university scholarships were chosen from potential candidates who were "either still living in Syria or in one of the bordering countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey), or who had fled to Germany".<ref name=GFP/> The former were then brought to Germany to join those participants who were already there. The scholarships were to various universities throughout Germany. The German Foreign Office funded the bulk of the scholarships (200) with the balance being sponsored by Baden-Württemberg (50) and North Rhine-Westphalia (21).<ref name=GFP/> The scholarship curriculum included an introductory language course for those students who were not already fluent in, or otherwise had no prior knowledge of, German. Alongside this was a concomitant obligatory element intended to imbue the planned future Syrian elite with the "fundamental and practical knowledge and skills in political sciences, economics, social sciences, as well as operational competence."<ref name=GFP/>
See alsoEdit
- Franco-German University
- Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, another German academic exchange service for school teachers and students
- List of Nobel laureates
- DAAD Alumni Association of the US