The ‘Deutscher Akademischer AustauschDienst’ (DAAD) – the German Academic Exchange Service – is the world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers. Find out more about who we are and what we stand for.

Since it was founded in 1925, around 2.9 million scholars in Germany and abroad have received DAAD funding. It is a registered association and its members are German institutions of higher education and student bodies. Its activities go far beyond simply awarding grants and scholarships. The DAAD supports the internationalisation of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, supports countries in the Global South in building and improving their higher education systems and advises decision makers on education, foreign science and development policy.

WHAT?

In 2022, the DAAD funded more than 140,000 German and international scholars worldwide. The funding offers range from a year abroad for undergraduates to doctoral programmes, from internships to visiting lectureships, and from information gathering visits to assisting with the establishment of new universities abroad. Voluntary, independent selection committees decide on the funding. The selection committee members are appointed by the DAAD’s Executive Committee according to certain appointment principles. The DAAD supports the international activities of German higher education instution through marketing services, publications, the staging of events and training courses.

CONTACT

The DAAD office in New Delhi | India is responsible for all students from Nepal.

Find out more here:     https://www.daad.in/en/about-us/daad-in-nepal/

Direct contact:              Mr.Nishka Tural

–> please request a contact via the Goethe-Zentrum Kathmandu

DAAD Young Ambassadors in Nepal