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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is a joint organization of Germany’s higher education institutions and is responsible for promoting international academic relations, primarily through the exchange of students, academics and researchers. The mandate of the predominantly publicly-funded DAAD is to raise the international profile of Germany’s higher education institutions and to serve as a “mediating organization” in the government’s foreign, European, development and higher education policies.

DAAD’s main objectives include:

• Encouraging outstanding young students and academics from abroad to come to Germany for study or research visits and, if possible, maintaining contact with them as life-long partners,
• Qualifying young German researchers and professionals at the very best institutions around the world in a spirit of tolerance and openness,
• Promoting the internationality and appeal of Germany’s universities and higher education institutions,
• Maintaining or establishing German studies including German language, literature and cultural studies at an appropriate level at major foreign universities, and
• Helping the developing countries of the South and the reforming states of the East to establish efficient higher education structures.

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Erasmus Mundus Programme

2010 Call for Proposals: EACEA/29/09

Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with Third-Countries. In addition, it contributes to the development of human resources and the international cooperation capacity of Higher education institutions in third countries by increasing mobility between the European Union and these countries.

This Call for Proposals aims to support projects under all three Actions of the programme:

Action 1: Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes

* Action 1A: Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC)
* Action 1B: Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJD)

Action 2: Erasmus Mundus Partnerships

(Partnerships with Third Country higher education institutions and scholarships for mobility)

* Action 2 – STRAND 1: Partnerships with countries covered by the ENPI, DCI, EDF and IPA instruments (former External Cooperation Window)

* Action 2 – STRAND 2: Partnerships with countries and territories covered by the Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI)

Action 3: Promotion of European higher education

* Projects to enhance the Attractiveness of European higher education

Deadline for submission of applications under all three Actions: 30 April 2010

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Being a DAAD Scholar – what can you achieve?

 

After having benefitted from a DAAD scholarships, many scholars made their way: Today, they are successful and internationally acclaimed scientists, hold leadership positions in the academics, governments and international organisations, and above that, are strong supporters of a young generation of upcoming scientists in Africa.

Our website will mirror the achievements of our former scholars and publish selected portraits in a lose order. We invite you to send us names and contacts of DAAD Alumni across Sub-Saharan Africa whose work and commitment you feel deserve to be known beyond their work place.

We continue our series with a Tanzanian scholar: Mayunga Nkunya.


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