Postgraduate Scholarships in Environmental Protection, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt - Germany

The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt has established a German scholarship programme to promote promising young scientists in the field of environmental protection.

About 60 scholarships for postgraduates from different disciplines - mostly in chemistry, biology and engineering - are offered per annum.

Scholarship applications can be submitted twice a year

Besides a brief and a detailed description of the research project further documents are necessary. Relative forms are obtainable from the DBU office or via Internet-download (german version).

Particularly excluded is financial backing for;

  • Dissertations (submitted for a diploma)
  • Doctoral or PhD thesis’ in progress
  • Travelling expenses for research stays in Germany or foreign countries
  • Printing costs for dissertations, costs re a patent procedure
  • Costs re attending conventions and conferences
  • Costs for research studies at German or foreign universities

    For the scholarship holders an international summer academy in St. Marienthal, close to the Czech-Polish-German border is organised every year.

    For more information see; Postgraduate Scholarships in Environmental Protection, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Germany: http://www.dbu.de/958.html