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The Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (ECB) (German: Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld (UCB)) is a branch of the Hochschule Trier in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is close to the small town of Birkenfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate, close to the border of Saarland, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. There are 1,800 students enrolled in two ...
Alumniportal Deutschland is a non-profit online social network of "Germany Alumni" that is designed internationally for people who have studied, researched, worked or completed further training or a language course in Germany or at a German institution abroad.
DAAD is a private, federally funded and state-funded, self-governing national agency of the institutions of higher education in Germany, representing 365 German higher education institutions (100 universities and technical universities, 162 general universities of applied sciences, and 52 colleges of music and art) [2003].
Wim Duisenberg, first President of the ECB. The European Central Bank is the de facto successor of the European Monetary Institute (EMI). [7] The EMI was established at the start of the second stage of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) to handle the transitional issues of states adopting the euro and prepare for the creation of the ECB and European System of Central Banks (ESCB). [7]
Alternatives to BAföG include the Bildungskredit ("study loan") from KfW, Bildungsfonds, and scholarships. However, in most cases to qualify for a private loan, one must have German citizenship, have EU citizenship and have resided in Germany for three consecutive years, or have graduated from a German secondary school.
Scholarship programmes in the first country of asylum: DAFI – The Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee initiative – funded by the German Government and private donors; Connected Learning programmes – a blended learning approach in partnership with a network of accredited universities;
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, branch office, Berlin. The selection process is extremely rigorous and only those students who show outstanding academic and personal promise are chosen. The Studienstiftung awards scholarships to fewer than 0.5% of German students. [9] It is sometimes referred to as Germany's "secret elite university". [10]
The program has its origins in the Bundestag Internship Program (BIP), which only accepted young graduates from the United States. 20 of these scholarships were awarded between 1986 and 1988. In 1989 a similar internship program with France was established on a reciprocal basis, allowing German graduates to also experience parliamentary ...