Deadline for functions: December 31, 2022
Guidelines and standards for the SBW Berlin Scholarship
I. Goal of the Scholarship
The SBW Berlin Scholarship helps younger folks from overseas who come from financially deprived household backgrounds and use the abilities they acquired throughout their research in Germany to spice up long-term non-profit tasks, ideally of their residence international locations.
We award our scholarships for bachelor’s and grasp’s packages at a college or particular college of utilized sciences in Berlin and Potsdam primarily based on the scholar’s educational {qualifications}, private aptitude, and social wants. Basically, all scientific and creative disciplines may be funded.
In particular circumstances the scholarship could help a vocational coaching in Berlin or Potsdam.
Vital necessities of the SBW Berlin scholarship are the SBW Berlin scholarship recipients’ intention to return to their residence international locations and pursue their skilled objectives for not less than 18 months after the top of the funding interval/examine program and to proceed to take part in common check-ins with the SBW Berlin crew relating to their skilled improvement (mission and profession). Thus, from the start of the scholarship, SBW Berlin helps all scholarship recipients to comprehend their skilled objectives of their residence international locations. That is completed by means of networking with different organizations, by means of SBW Berlin’s help with focused job searches within the scholarship recipients’ residence international locations and with the preparation of job supplies thereafter. As well as, all developed social non-profit tasks ought to present robust connections with the scholarship recipients’ residence international locations.
Research or vocational trainings within the applicant’s residence nation or in different German federal states can’t be funded.
Additional funding after the top of the common examine/skilled coaching interval is unattainable.
II. Who can apply?
- International nationals, whose residence international locations seem to have a selected want for improvement
help - Homeless foreigners
- Acknowledged refugees
- Holders of a settlement allow
- Holders of an EU long-term residence allow
- Students from EU and EEA international locations who’ve already labored in Germany in an exercise associated to their research, earlier than taking on their research
- Students from EU/EEA international locations with everlasting proper of residence as outlined by the Freedom of Motion Act (Freizügigkeitsgesetz EU)
Students whose research in Germany are already being funded by one other scholarship usually are not eligible to use.
1. We consider that this is applicable significantly to many international locations in Japanese Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America as a result of their present financial and/or social scenario.
2. See additionally the SBW Scholarship for refugees.
An exception to this rule is help below the Federal Schooling Help Act (BAFöG). On this case, the quantity of the scholarship is adjusted in response to the BAFöG allowance.
III. Application necessities
Candidates should meet the next necessities:
- between 18 and 30 years outdated
- skilled or volunteer expertise within the non-profit sector
- robust intention to work of their nation of origin for not less than 18 months after commencement
- in a position to show a comparatively low web earnings
- no first-degree relations who reside completely in Germany
- in a position to show that they haven’t stayed in Germany for greater than 18 months earlier than the appliance
- common grades comparable to a German grade level common of not less than 2.0
- utility earlier than the beginning of their college schooling or absolutely enrolled within the first, second or max. third semester at a state-recognized college (in Germany or overseas) or utility for a grasp’s diploma shortly earlier than or after acquiring a bachelor’s diploma
Candidates who don’t meet all the necessities acknowledged above can’t be thought of.
IV. Deadlines and utility paperwork
The applying deadlines finish on December 31 and June 30 of every yr.
Application paperwork can solely be submitted between November fifteenth to December thirty first and Might fifteenth to June thirtieth of every yr.
The ultimate choice whether or not a scholarship (beginning the next semester) will likely be granted may be anticipated at first of February respectively and the start of August of every yr.
Solely full functions may be thought of. Candidates should submit not less than the next paperwork:
We suggest all candidates to submit the next extra paperwork, which aren’t
necessary:
- one or two letters of advice from professors, schoolteachers, employers, and so forth.
- proof of the web family earnings
The applying and all enclosed certificates and supporting paperwork have to be submitted in German or English. If the unique doc was issued in one other language, we additionally ask for a translation into German or English.
Non-certified copies and translations are adequate for the appliance.
If the applicant efficiently passes the choice course of, licensed copies of a few of these paperwork will likely be required through the verification course of.
V. Choice standards
The next standards are decisive for the collection of future scholarship recipients:
In want of help are all candidates who meet the necessities of § 1 BAföG (German Federal Schooling Help Act). The person quantity of funding will rely upon the non-public circumstances of every applicant.
Candidates whose family earnings doesn’t exceed the common earnings formally acknowledged for his or her nation of origin are additionally deemed in want of help. The earnings of all family members and all sources of earnings of the household will likely be thought of (e.g., wages, earnings from entrepreneurial actions, property earnings, baby profit or pensions).
Eligible are all candidates whose mental talents, as substantiated by the appliance paperwork and through the interview, justify the expectation that the applicant will simply meet the efficiency necessities of the funded research and diploma.
Worthy of help are all candidates whose character and social dedication counsel that
they are going to obtain the objectives of this scholarship throughout and after their research.
As well as, the applicant’s private non-profit mission will even be evaluated. Our ranking will likely be
primarily based on the next standards:
- Significance/Relevance of the mission for the house nation and SBW Berlin
- Documentation (construction, completeness, readability of the mission description)
- Feasibility of the objectives
- Feasibility of the mission’s time schedule
- Cooperation with a associate organisation within the residence nation (fascinating)
We’ll resolve individually, if extra monetary sources for the implementation of a proposed non-profit mission will likely be granted.
VI. Choice course of
Throughout the first section of the choice course of, the curriculum vitae, the letter of motivation and the grades of the candidates will likely be thought of.
Throughout the second section of the choice course of, a private interview or video convention will likely be carried out with every candidate who has been deemed appropriate in spite of everything paperwork have been fastidiously reviewed. The proposed social non-profit mission may also be mentioned through the interview or video convention.
Candidates additionally must submit a mission description that gives an in depth overview of the proposed mission’s social significance, mission’s goals, particular person work steps, estimates on any prices and expenditure of time, concepts on financing the mission and an in depth time schedule.
Solely after reviewing these mission descriptions, the ultimate choice will likely be made.
VII. Verification Course of
In the event that they haven’t already been submitted, the next paperwork will likely be required after the
choice within the so-called verification course of:
- copy of your passport with a present passport {photograph}
- copy of your scholar visa
- proof of the web family earnings
- analysis report from Uni-Help or different proof of the grade conversion into the German grading system
- copy of your college entrance qualification
- admission to a college in Berlin or Potsdam the place you propose to review (or are already
finding out) or affirmation of enrollment, if already issued - copy of your newest college or college certificates with a grade overview if one other certificates
has been issued because the utility - licensed copies of all college certificates and efficiency information that you’ve got obtained
up to now (graded and ungraded) - licensed copies of your study-specific work, coaching, and internship certificates
- legalization of your highest educational qualification (university-entrance diploma from college or college diploma just like the Bachelor certificates) if this certificates is from a overseas establishment
- copy of an internationally acknowledged language certificates for the language wherein your research will likely be taught
SBW Berlin could cowl the prices for the required certification and legalization of the paperwork in particular circumstances.
Throughout the verification course of, SBW Berlin and the candidate agree upon the ultimate particulars of easy methods to conduct and oversee the non-profit mission which turns into binding. The mission description then turns into a part of the scholarship contract.
VIII. Scholarship advantages
All through the scholarship (max. funding interval equals the common interval of examine), SBW Berlin covers the mandatory residing bills of the scholarship recipients. The scholarship consists of:
- a room in our shared scholar flats in Berlin
- cost-of-living allowance
- tuition charges
- probably additionally a journey allowance on your journey to Berlin earlier than the beginning of your research and for the journey residence after you will have accomplished your research
First funds can solely be made after the scholarship recipient moved into the scholar flat. Parttime jobs are usually not authorized by SBW Berlin.
IX. Quantity of the help
All scholarship recipients obtain a month-to-month residing allowance of 450 Euro.
Candidates who obtain advantages in accordance with the Federal Schooling Help Act (BAFöG) will solely obtain allowances that don’t rely as earnings below the phrases of § 21 para 3 Nr. 2 of BAFöG. These candidates often solely obtain a flat fee (e book allowance) of 100 Euro most a month as a result of the money worth of the lodging that SBW Berlin gives have to be thought of.
X. Length of our help
Our help will likely be offered for at least 30 days and a most of 48 months, relying on the usual length of research within the self-discipline you will have chosen. We grant help for particular durations of time, often for the next semester. Additional funding after the common examine interval has ended is unattainable.
We’ve got a complete of 20 scholarships out there. Every semester, we are able to award as many scholarships as there are vacancies.
SBW Berlin can terminate its help if a scholarship recipient fails one required course or postpones two exams. The failure to satisfy the goal agreements set for the scholarship recipient’s non-profit mission or modifications regarding the scholarship recipient’s supposed return to his/her residence nation are different causes for the termination of the scholarship.
XI. Return to the house nation and compensation obligation
The SBW Berlin scholarship program requires that the scholarship recipients restrict their keep in response to the length of their research. SBW Berlin grants this scholarship within the type of a mortgage, which is repayable after the top of the funding interval. There isn’t any obligation to repay the mortgage in the event that they return to their residence nation after finishing their research.
XII. Remaining provisions
Scholarship recipients should inform SBW Berlin instantly if their circumstances change, that had been related for the funding choice.
They’re additionally obliged to tell SBW Berlin instantly about their commencement and submit a duplicate of their diploma.
As well as, they need to submit copies of all of the college certificates and efficiency information (graded and ungraded) which they receive throughout their research after every semester.
Additional rights and obligations of the scholarship holders are listed within the scholarship contracts and will differ barely from each other.
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