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Who we are & how to applyTuesday, 2024-05-21 3:00 pm

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers German universities such as bbw University of Applied Sciences the opportunity to honour their foreign students for outstanding achievements and places the selection of the award-winners in the responsibility of the universities. For bbw University of Applied Sciences, the DAAD Prize is the most important honor awarded to foreign students.

This prize honours students with outstanding academic achievements and remarkable social - especially intercultural - commitment. For the awarded students, this prize means recognition of their academic achievements by one of the most renowned scholarship organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany. The DAAD Prize has been awarded for over ten years now and comes with prize money of EUR 1.000 per university. The aim is to give faces to the many international students at German universities and link them with their stories. This illustrates that each international student takes a piece of Germany with them when they return to their homeland and also leaves something of themselves in Germany - thus enriching both sides. The prize is also for making it clear to a wider public how enriching foreign students are for the university community.

You are also very good at your studies? Are you involved in other social projects besides your studies?
Then get in touch with your favourite lecturer or professor and ask for a letter of recommendation and apply for the DAAD Prize!

Application Procedure

1. Eligible students

The award will be conferred to students from bbw University of Applied Sciences who fulfil the following requirements:

Excellent academic achievements
Active social or intercultural commitment
Advanced BA or MA studies (enrolment at least in the 2nd or 3rd semester of a bachelor's programme or in the 2nd semester of a master's programme)
Foreign nationality and a foreign university entrance qualification

2. Application and selection procedure

The DAAD prize should be nominated by one of the professors or lecturers of their study programme. Students can also apply themselves.

The DAAD Prize winners are selected by a committee according to the following criteria:

outstanding academic achievement
noteworthy social and/or intercultural commitment.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Are you a suitable candidate? You can submit the following documents (all documents in 1 PDF-file!) by e-mail to the International Office international-office@bbw-hochschule.de not later than August 15, 2024.

Letter of motivation / An official statement of intent (informal)
Letter of recommendation from a professor or lecturer of the degree programme (see template above)
Short curriculum vitae
Confirmation of the examination office stating the current grades and achieved credits
Current proof of the duration, extent and type of social or intercultural commitment

3. Prize

The award is EUR 1.000.
The award cannot be allocated among several candidates.

4. Application deadline for the 2024 DAAD Prize

The application deadline is August 15, 2024 submitted to the International Office.

5. Award ceremony

The DAAD Prize will be awarded in a festive setting at the graduation ceremony in winter 2024/25.

DAAD Prize Winner of bbw University of Applied Sciences

This year, the DAAD Prize went to Omar Akhalil from Syria. Since October 2020, Omar has been studying at the bbw University of Applied Sciences in the dual Bachelor's programme Electrical Engineering - Control and Control and Rail Automation Technology. He convinced the selection committee not only with his excellent academic achievements, but also with his years of commitment to the German Red Cross in Hamburg, where he has been assisting with first-aid services at events and in civil protection since 2019.

In the following interview the award winner Omar Alkhalil talks about his way to the bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, his motivation to help others and his plans for the future.

Omar Akhalil
Student of the dual bachelor's degree programme in Electrical Engineering - Control and Rail Automation Technology and DAAD Award Winner 2022

Ganesh Digambara Shet from India is the deserving winner of the DAAD-Award 2021 of bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences. Ganesh impressed not only with his very good academic performance in his Master's Degree Programme Strategic Management in Logistics, but also with his many years of social commitment. Since 2017, he has been working with the association world's education for kids e.V. to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds access to English lessons. During the Corona pandemic, he and members of his cricket club organised oxygen supplies for patients in his hometown.

In an interview from December 2021, award winner Ganesh Digambara Shet spoke about his path to bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, his motivation to help others and his plans for the future.

Ganesh Digambara Shet
Student of the Master's Degree Programme Strategic Management in Logistics and DAAD Award Winner 2021

Nishanth Prabhakar from India and first DAAD Prize Winner of bbw University of Applied Sciences impressed the selection committee not only with his excellent academic achievements but also with his social commitment. As a Master´s student on the International Technology Transfer Management study programme, he showed great commitment on Open Campus Day and in study projects. Outside the university, he trains people with intellectual disabilities at the sports club Lebenshilfe e.V..

In an interview of december 2020 the award winner Nishanth Prabhakar talked about his way to the bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, his motivation to help others and his plans for the future.

Nishanth Prabhakar
ITTM Student and DAAD Prize Winner 2020