The “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) has selected the MSc Environmental Governance (MEG) as a development-related postgraduate course, and so the programme can offer a limited number of EPOS Scholarships. Candidates will be selected first by the programme committee of the MEG programme. In a second step, DAAD will check their selection carefully and decide upon the candidates.

This is a highly competitive application process with strict requirements. Scholarship applicants must fulfill both the DAAD EPOS requirements AND the admission criteria for the MEG programme.

ELIGIBILITY:

Young professionals from developing countries (DAC countries) who meet all of the following requirements:

Have an academic degree, that is not older than six years at the time of application (October 2026)

Have a minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience (post-bachelor’s, at the time of application); internships and voluntary work are not accepted

Note that employment in academia, like teaching and research at a university or research institute, is not considered relevant work experience for this scholarship type; only in very exceptional cases can it be accepted.

Have an academic degree above average (upper third)

Having resided in Germany for no more than 15 months before applying

Candidates who already hold a master’s degree must make a well-argued case as to why they should be funded for another postgraduate degree.

Online Eligibility Assessment (OEA)

Basic Information

All documents listed below, under Application Documents, need to be compressed or merged as one single PDF file and then be sent to info-meg@unr.uni-freiburg.de

Incomplete applications cannot be considered. 

Referees have to send their reference letters directly to info-meg@unr.uni-freiburg.de, not to the applicant.

If you submit the documents listed below, there is no need to submit additional documents required in the DAAD application form (e.g. project outline).

Application Documents:

DAAD Application Form (download DAAD Application Form); don’t forget date of issue

MEG application form (Please note that due to technical issues, they have had to close the online application process and will not be reactivating it. Instead, please fill in this form and send your documents as a single PDF to info-meg@unr.uni-freiburg.de

Letter of Motivation, following this MEG_DAAD Guideline. Don’t forget date of issue

CV

Transcript of Records (original and certified translation if necessary).

University degree certificate

Certificate for professional experience relevant to MEG 

 Two recommendation letters

English Language Certificate (originals or certified copies).

Signed DAAD checklist   VERY IMPORTANT!

Online Info Session:

Join us online on the dates below to ask and get answers to all your DAAD Scholarship application questions. All online Q&A sessions are at 14:00 CET.

07 July

04 August 

01 September 

Zoom Link:  https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/66437791635?pwd=Sm4IaaUi6AmCcOhTtab4ogtJNVYSdV.1

BENEFIT:

DAAD-EPOS Scholarship recipients are exempted from study fees.