Excellence Scholarship (South-North)
| FSC awards top selected applicants from developing countries (see OECD DAC list) scholarships to obtain their PhD degree at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. |
There are certain topics provided by the Faculties of Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences and Business, Economics and Social Sciences from which the applicants have to select as their doctoral research topic when they are applying for the scholarship.
Applicants who successfully applied for FSC`s Excellence scholarship are so-called “pre-selected candidates”. Only after a professor at the University of Hohenheim has accepted the „pre-selected candidate“, he/she will be ultimately selected and awarded an Excellence scholarship to conduct his/her doctorate.
However, after being selected for the Excellence scholarship, all candidates are obliged to apply for an admission to enroll as a doctoral student at the
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (see: Doctoral Degree Program of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences)
- Faculty of Natural Sciences (see: Doctoral Degree Program of the Faculty of Natural Sciences) or
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (see: Doctoral Degree Programm of the WISO Faculty).
Note: The applicants who are selecting one of the topics provided by Faculty of Agriculture are obliged to apply for the doctoral program "Global Food Security" after being awarded an Excellence scholarship.
The candidate who has been awarded for an Excellence scholarship, has to follow the doctoral degree regulations of its respective faculty at the University of Hohenheim. The prerequisites for acceptance into one of the above mentioned faculties will be checked by the respective faculty. Only the faculties at the University of Hohenheim can enroll a successful applicant to become a full PhD candidate at the University of Hohenheim.
Following the before described procedure and succeeding in the application for FSC`s excellence scholarship as well as the acceptance as a doctoral candidate, the excellence scholarship is given for a stay at the University of Hohenheim at Stuttgart, Germany, by FSC. The monthly grant is EUR 1,000 (for the time in Germany, during the field research there will be a different rate applicable). In addition, FSC pays for traveling to and from Hohenheim. Proofed costs for a health and liability insurance will be refunded for an amount up to EUR 100.
The following criteria have to be met for applying for an Excellence scholarship:
| 1. | Latest academic degree completed no more than 6 years prior to start of scholarship |
| 2. | Indication for return to his/her home country and institute |
| 3. | Be a national of a developing country according to OECD DAC list |
| 4. | Your research theme should be in accordance with the conceptual research framework of FSC |
| 5. | Your research proposal has to relate to one of the research themes (see the "Research topics" section) |
Besides the points mentioned above, general selection criteria for the PhD program “Global Food Security” have to be met additionally for those who apply for the topics provided by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Please click here for more information.
| Currently no topic is available! |
| No open calls for applications at the moment! |
Before starting the online application procedure, please download the following checklist/guideline and collect the documents listed there. Please use the templates available for download below and be informed that all application documents must be submitted in English.
- Template for the abstract of master's thesis
- Template for the PhD research proposal
- Template for the recommendation Letter
Please note!
| 1. | All accepted applications will be selected according to the following criteria:
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| 2. | Only those applications will be accepted, which are submitted with FSC’s application templates (see above) |
| 3. | Please be aware that FSC will contact only successful applicants |