Call for applications for the Deutschlandstipendium at the University of Greifswald 2025/2026

To apply online, please fill out the application form on the Application Server. (First of all, you will be required to create an account)

Apply online here

The online form is only accessible during the application period (13 June 2025 - 26 July 2025).

Start your application with the application agreement (Bewerbungsvereinbarung), which must be completed, signed and sent in paper format or as a PDF to the University of Greifswald katrin.purpsuni-greifswaldde. If you unable to fill out all of the required information at once, you can interrupt the application process and continue later on by logging back in.

It is up to you if you would like to provide your bank details. You can also add these once you have been granted a scholarship.

You must submit the following application documents with your online application (as PDF):

1. Up-to-date cover letter (max. 2 A4 pages, 1.5 line spacing, 12pt Arial)
2. Up-to-date tabular curriculum vitae (CV)
3. Up-to-date transcript of records, which shows all of the examinations taken (issued by the Central Examination Office or the Office of the Dean of Studies at University Medicine or printout via the self-service portal HIS), or for university entrants - the certificate of your higher education entrance qualification/Abitur
4. Certificates (higher education entrance qualification/Abitur, traineeship/apprenticeship, career, if applicable interim examination, Vordiplom, bachelor's etc. For foreign certificates, a translation that compares the foreign achievements with the German system and conversion into the German grading system)
5. Enrolment Certificate for the current semester (if you already have one)
6. Certificates and proof of internships, side jobs, participation in community projects, special skills and awards, etc.

You will receive an application number immediately after submitting your application. Keep record of this number.

You are able to add further proof and certificates to your previously submitted application up until the 25 July 2025.

Only applications that have been completed in full will be accepted, incomplete and/or applications that were not submitted within the application period will not be considered.

Only apply once! Multiple applications will not be considered.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions here [de].

Students who received scholarships in 2024/2025 can apply for the extension of their scholarship as long as they are still within the regular length of study. Extensions to the regular length of studies should be applied for in good time at the University’s Students' Registration Office. The application for the extension of the scholarship is also only possible via the Application Server. Please specify here that you are applying for an extension.

You must attach the following current certificates of achievements as an appendix in PDF format:

1. Proof of credits gained during your studies (in particular exams, internships, excursions)
2. Short evaluation from a member of teaching staff who was responsible for at least one examined module
3. Short description of your development since the last grant

The signed declaration of participation from the 2025 application agreement must be sent to the University of Greifswald in paper format or as a PDF (to katrin.purpsuni-greifswaldde).

The applicants must be enrolled at the University of Greifswald by the start of the funding period at the latest and first-time applicants must still have at least two semesters of the regular length of study ahead of them.

Students up to the start of the second subject semester of an undergraduate degree course will be evaluated according to:

• the average grade of the higher education entrance qualification with particular emphasis given to the individual marks for subjects relevant to the degree course or
• the special qualification which grants the student access to a place for the relevant degree course at the University of Greifswald.

For students in higher semesters, the academic achievements during studies are relevant, in particular the results of an interim examination or a Vordiplom; for students on master's degree courses, the final grade of the previous bachelor's degree course is also relevant.

The following can also be included in the overall evaluation of the applicant’s potential:

• special achievements, awards und prizes,
• previous professional experience or subject-related internships,
• out-of-school or extracurricular activities such as voluntary work; involvement in civic, social or political activities, university politics or in religious communities, associations or societies,
• special personal or family circumstances, such as illnesses, disabilities, looking after own children, in particular as a single parent, or close relatives in need of care, working in a family-run business, professional employment during studies, family origin or migration background.