The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is Germany’s largest provider of grants. Please find further information on the funding programmes and the documents required for applications, a grant database and comprehensive lists of links on the DAAD webpages.

• With its year-long grant programme (information in German), the DAAD provides funding for study periods of one year at universities in Europe or overseas. The grants are awarded for studies at recognised higher education institutions. Projects conducted without any association to a higher education institution cannot be funded. The grants are made available for the duration of one academic year. Candidates must be at least in their second semester of studying the relevant discipline at the time of their application.
• For work placements with international organisations, German missions abroad, German schools abroad and German humanities institutes abroad, you can apply for partial grants and travel allowances from the DAAD. The maximum funding period is three months.
• Moreover, students can apply for travel allowances from the DAAD if they undertake a work placement arranged through IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience).
• The DAAD also provides funding for medical students participating in the professional exchange, research exchange and public health exchange programmes organised by the bvmd (Bundesvertretung der Medizinstudierenden in Deutschland e.V.; federal association of medical students in Germany). Applications are to be submitted directly to the bvmd.
• German students of bachelor’s courses in sciences and engineering can apply for research placements and funding abroad as part of the RISE programme from the DAAD.
• For computer science students, the DAAD arranges two-month work placements in Taiwan (Taiwan Summer Institute Programme) in cooperation with the National Science Council (NSC)
• With its ‘Russland in der Praxis’ (work experience in Russia) programme, the DAAD provides funding for six-month student work placements in the Russian Federation.

You can find information on further financing options on the following pages (in German):

• DAAD grant database
• Foundation search portal from the Association of German Foundations
• Stipendienlotse, grant database from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• mystipendium.de

Students can request an educational loan for a limited term for study abroad periods from the KfW promotional bank.
Bildungskredit loans of up to €300 per month are only available up to the age of 35 and until the end of the student’s 12^th semester of study in their discipline. This loan can be requested in addition to BAföG grants. However, there is no legal entitlement for such a loan to be granted.
You can find further information here.