>Subject: FELLOWSHIPS: "Leadership for Syria” programme (DAAD) > >From Émilie Pagé-Perron [mailto:[log in to unmask]]: >====================================================== > >Ifpo (Institut français du Proche-Orient) Scholarships Programme for >Syrian Students Launched > >Applications period for special programme funded by the Federal Foreign >Office begins > >Funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the German Academic Exchange >Service (DAAD) has set up a scholarships programme for refugees from >Syria. The call for applications begins on 31 October. In total, one >hundred gifted Syrian students are to be given the opportunity of >studying in Germany in the coming year. The Federal Foreign Office is to >provide €7.8m in funding. > >Germany's Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier explains: "We cannot >allow the Syrian conflict to engender a lost generation. It is >particularly young Syrians that will play a crucial role in rebuilding >their country and deciding its future as soon as this terrible conflict >is over. We want to help give this young generation a future perspective.” > >The new "Leadership for Syria” programme set up by the German Academic >Exchange Service (DAAD) is backed by €7.8m in funding and will enable up >to 100 students to complete their studies in Germany and participate in a >socio-political accompanying programme. In addition, the number of >regular DAAD scholarships is to be doubled. > >"The programme is specifically geared to young people who have had to >interrupt their studies or could not commence them due to the war. A >sound education gives them future perspectives and prepares them for the >task of helping to shape the Syria of tomorrow”, says DAAD President >Prof. Margret Wintermantel. > >The new scholarship programme is primarily focused on Master's students, >as well as providing places for PhD students and Bachelor's students. >This programme is open to students in Syria and refugees from Syria, >regardless of the country in which they are currently staying. To enable >as many candidates as possible to apply, the DAAD accepts applications >submitted online and in its offices in the relevant regions (Amman, >Ankara, Istanbul, Erbil, Cairo, and Beirut). > >The calls for applications are available as of 31 October 2014 at >www.daad.de/syria.--- Legal Notice: >Publisher: >Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. Kennedyallee 50 D - 53175 >Bonn Individual responsible for the purposes of the law on the printed >press: >Dr Dorothea Rüland >Individual responsible for content: >Dr Frens Stoeckel >Acknowledgements for images: >- >Contact details: >Tel.: +971 2 678 11 24 >[log in to unmask] >http://www.daad-gulfregion.org >Click here to unsubscribe from future mailings. >DAAD Information Center Gulf Region >Tourist Club, Electra St., >Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi - >UAE