If you want to apply for a scholarship, please read the following information! Here you will find information about the different sorts of scholarship, application procedure and condition of allowance!
The application period for the winter semester 2026/27 and summer semester 2027
is expected to start mid-September to the beginning of October! No later applications will be considered!
Please be aware that there is a limited number of scholarships. Results of consideration / non-consideration will estimatedly communicated in December!
Your application can only be considered, if it is complete and meet all requirements.
Your application consists of 2 parts
- online-application form(only active during application period Mid-September until beginning of Oktober – not fixed exactly yet)
Online application form (Only active during application period, see link above) - further documents, which you have to upload after sending the online application form. You have to upload these documents in one pdf-file
(Herefor you will get a link and a TAN via e-mail, AFTER sending the online application form!).
You have to send the following documents (see list below) in the named order (only pdf-document, please save all dacuments in the named order as a SINGLE PDF-document and save it as NameSurname.pdf)
Further documents:
- Please fill out this Document (first page of your application)
- motivation letter
- CV
- List of ECTS-Points and former university degrees; e.g. Bachelor degree certificate (If you don’t have this because you just begin your studies, your final secondary-school examinations will serve for this)
- Recommendation letter from a professor (or as a beginner from a former teacher or employer; if you are in your first Master semester, please add a recommendation letter from a former professor – B.A. degree). Please use the PDF if your professor speaks German; otherwise add a recommendation letter without using the PDF. The letter must show date, stamp and signature of the professor.
- final secondary-school examinations and certificate of apprenticeship/formation (typically training on the job combined with accompanying studies) all in chronological order.
- if so reference of social dedication (extracurricular commitment as a volunteer, civic and social activities, political or political commitment or participation in religious societies, associations or federations)
- ONLY IF YOU APPLY FOR FINANCIAL REASONS: (more to SFF Stipendium) Please explain in your motivation letter in how far you are in financial need and how you have financed your living and studies so far. In addition, please give your opinion on how you see your chances at completing your studies in your current situation. Furthermore, affirmed income statements, covering the last three months, must be attached to your application. These encompass your own, if applicable your partner’s, and your parents’ financial statements. Furthermore you have to give a copy of your blocked account.
- Certificate of matriculation (please print this out from the university website), showing the number of semesters and fields of study (Certificate of Enrollment pursuant to §9 BAföG. Available at: My Studies > Student Services > documents). Prospective students should submit this document. Click here to access the two programs.
Open-source PDF creation software:
For detailed information, please click directly on one of the two scholarships. You only need to submit your application materials once, even if you are interested in both a merit-based scholarship and a need-based scholarship.
Click here to access the two programs:
- Deutschlandstipendium of the federal government, 300 € per month or rather 3,600 € per year.
The funding amounts to 300 euros per month (ie 3,600 € / year). A higher funding amount is possible through the Deutschlandstipendium, in which privately received scholarship funds are subsidized in the ratio of 1:1 by the federal government. - Scholarship from the Studienförderfonds Siegen e.V., 250 per semester or € 2,500 per year, taking into account your personal financial situation.
The scholarships of the Studienförderfonds amount in principle to 2,500 € per year. A share of the scholarship of 150,- € per month is awarded as study fee (in particular literature procurement, work materials or congress visits).
