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STIBET-Scholarships 2025 for International Students and Doctoral Candidates for more equality of opportunity
The International Office of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg is awarding three-month scholarships in the summer semester 2025, financed by the DAAD with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA). The scholarships are intended to support international students and doctoral candidates who face particular individual challenges during their studies.
To be eligible for this support, these challenges must be due to one or several of the following circumstances:
- First-time academics: Students who are the first in their family to pursue an academic career
- Refugee background: students with a history of flight or displacement
- Disability and/or chronic illness: Students with a disability and/or chronic illness
- Gender identity: Students who face particular challenges in everyday academic life due to their gender identity
- Caring for relatives in Germany: Students who are responsible for close relatives in need of care in the 1st and 2nd degree
- Caring for underage children: Students (especially single parents) who look after children in their own household
The scholarship offers financial support in the form of three monthly installments
of €410 each (€1,230 in total). Funding begins in September 2025.
Application Deadline: 17 July 2025 | 12.00 PM
Further information and the application form as well as application instructions can be found here:
Scholarship announcement STIBET equal opportunities 2025
Ausschreibung_Chancen_2025_en.pdf
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Application form STIBET equal opportunities 2025
Bew_Formular_Chancen_2025_SteuerID_en.pdf
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Our DAAD award winners 2024 and 2025
DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements by foreign students at German universities students at German universities
DAAD award winners
Every year, the German Academic Exchange Service provides funding for an international student or doctoral student at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The DAAD prize is intended to honor special academic achievements and remarkable social or intercultural commitment.
Ms. Diana Paola Ochoa Vásquez
Ms. Ochoa Vásquez comes from Ecuador and attended the German School in Cuenca. After successfully completing her Bachelor's degree in Halle, she has now also been able to complete her Master's degree in Biochemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). As a DAAD scholarship holder, she used this support to fulfill her dream of studying in Germany.
Her academic achievements were and are outstanding and a testament to her commitment and passion for her academic field. Ms. Ochoa Vásquez has also been actively involved in extracurricular activities and has shared her experience and knowledge with others. As a graduate of a so-called partner school (PASCH), she now supports international students as a mentor of the PASCH initiative with valuable tips on arriving and living in Germany. On the one hand, her support helps the individual with their start to student life in Germany. On the other hand, this also structurally strengthens and expands the relationships between our university and other PASCH schools in the network.
In addition, Ms. Ochoa Vásquez has also participated in the International Office's Buddy Program, in which she has supported international students. Her commitment has helped to strengthen the international community at MLU and promote intercultural exchange.
We would like to honor this outstanding commitment today.
Congratulations and all the best for the future!
Mr. Pratyaksh Singh
Mr. Singh has also distinguished himself through his scientific achievements and his remarkable commitment to international doctoral students, which is why he is being awarded this year's DAAD Prize 2025.
Mr. Singh comes from India, where he also very successfully completed his Bachelor in Science in Botany. After completing MSc Organismic, Evolution and Paleobiology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn in 2022
, he is now a PhD student in the research group "Evolution and Biodiversity" at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). His outstanding academic leadership is reflected in his numerous scientific presentations and articles.
In addition to his scientific activities, Mr. Singh has also distinguished himself as an advocate and event organizer for doctoral students within the graduate school "iDiv". He is passionate about equal opportunities, internationalization and diversity and has been instrumental in making the graduate school an even more inclusive place through his initiatives. It is thanks to his commitment that the iDiv building now also has unisex toilets.
Pratyaksh Singh is an outstanding example of how academic excellence and social commitment can go hand in hand. His achievements and his commitment to international doctoral candidates make him a worthy recipient of the DAAD Prize 2025.
Congratulations and all the best for your future endeavors!