Information on Funding

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service) is the largest German agency that supports international academic cooperation. It addresses international undergraduate and graduate students who would like to study in Germany as well as students in Germany who want to continue their studies abroad. It provides not only a lot of useful information on Germany but also on Funding opportunities for education and research. Furthermore, in the Scholarship Database one can find a posdoctoral scholarship or a guest professorship. DAAD has branch offices in many countries.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation provide funding for fundamental research.

Erasmus is an EU program supporting exchange students. Also, ERASMUS Mundus- Consortium offers funding for student/faculty exchange between EU and Russian Federation, more infos here!!!

External Cooperation Window provides funding of a number of EU programs with the goal of improving the international academic and research cooperation between universities.

A few tipps and scholarships for students are offered by the Ruhr University of Bochum here and by the Ruhr-University Research School here .