• US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
• Foreign nationals who live in the US/Canada by the time of application deadline must have gained their last degree in the US/Canada or will be gaining it before the beginning of their funding period.
• All other foreign nationals may need to apply via a different DAAD office.
• Applicants may not have been living in Germany for more than 15 consecutive months by the time of application deadline.
• If you are a German national, you must have been residing in the US/Canada for 6 continuous years at the time of the application deadline. Please call our office to make sure you are eligible.
• Applicants should have completed their last degree no longer than 6 years before the application deadline.

Indiana University is a partner university with the German Academic Exchange Service and can nominate up to four priority candidates. To be eligible for consideration as a priority candidate, applicants must submit a draft statement of research proposal for the research grants or a draft study proposal for the study scholarships by 11:59pm on Monday October 11th. National deadline is Wednesday November 4th. Send the draft statement as a Word document by email to campus liaison, Paul Fogleman (pfoglema@iu.edu).   

To be eligible for consideration as a priority candidate, applicants must submit a draft statement of research proposal for the research grants or a draft study proposal for the study scholarships by 11:59pm on Monday October 11th. Send the draft statement as a Word document by email to campus liaison, Paul Fogleman (pfoglema@iu.edu).   

For requirements for the the national deadline, refer to these DAAD webpages:

DAAD Research Grant

DAAD Study Scholarship