How to apply for the Deutschlandstipendium

Any student enrolled for one of the study programmes at Trier University of Applied Sciences can apply for the Deutschlandstipendium. You have to be within your standard period of study (Regelstudienzeit) and your studies should continue for at least two semesters (the period for which the sholarship is awarded). The standard period of study may only be exceeded due to serious reasons (such as disability, pregnancy, childcare, or study time abroad). In this case, you must hand in an extra letter describing your case along with your other application documents.

The main criteria in the selection process are: academic achievement, social, political and societal commitment as well as your personal circumstances. This means that your grades should be above average. Further qualifications (such as degrees and training prior to your university studies, awards, internships) are also counted as academic achievement.

The three main criteria possess different weight in the selection process:

• academic achievement: 60 %
• social, political and societal commitment: 20 %
• personal circumstances: 20 %

You can usually apply for the Deutschlandstipendium between July 1 and August 31. Detailled information about the application period can be found in the call for applications, which is announced via the e-mail distribution list of Trier University of Applied Sciences.

Applications are to be submitted via our online application portal DSTIP. The link will be provided on this website during the application period. 

Please consult the Application Agreement for the detailed list of required documents. You can download the Application Agreement from this website and the online application portal DSTIP.

The federal government has drawn up detailed rules for the Deutschlandstipendium regarding the effects on funding of internships, stays abroad and a leave of absence from studies. These can be found in the FAQ for students on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

If you are planning to undertake internships and/or stays abroad during the funding period, you should definitely check whether these could be funded by the scholarship before applying for the Deutschlandstipendium.

If your internships or stays abroad have already been confirmed or are prescribed in your examination regulations and are taking place within the lecture period, you must provide precise information about this in your application and submit evidence. You will find a corresponding field for your information in our online application portal DSTIP. If your activities are prescribed in the examination regulations of your degree program, you must submit the relevant excerpt from the examination regulations with your application.

Your application may be in German or English. If your application documents are in a third language, an officially certified translation into German must be added.

The online application portal DSTIP can be used both in German or English.

After the period of one year, scholarship holders may reapply for the Deutschlandstipendium if they still fulfill all the criteria listed above. Reapplications are submitted via the online application portal DSTIP during the application period. To reapply, you need the login data you received when you first registered on the online application portal DSTIP.

Please consult the Application Agreement for Reapplications for the detailed list of required documents. You can download it from this website and the online application portal DSTIP.

Letters of recommendation from lecturers can be handed in voluntarily, they are not mandatory. They can earn you an extra point in the "academic suitability" section.

There are no content or formal requirements for letters of recommendation; reasons for the recommendation and the recommendation itself can be recorded in an informal letter.

Please submit the letter of recommendation together with all other application documents via our online application portal DSTIP. Should your lecturer as an exception prefer direct submission to us, the letter of recommendation can be sent to deutschlandstipendium(at)hochschule-trier.de until the end of the application period.