ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL DAAD Headquarters Bonn Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Kennedyallee 50 53175 Bonn (Germany) Postfach 200404 53134 Bonn (Germany) Tel. +49 (228) 882-0 Fax +49 (228) 882-444 [email protected] www.daad.de Berlin Office Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst WissenschaftsForum am Gendarmenmarkt Markgrafenstraße 37 10117 Berlin (Germany) Government Liaison Office Tel. +49 (30) 20 22 08-0 Fax +49 (30) 204 12 67 Artists-in-Berlin Program Tel. +49 (30) 20 22 08-20 [email protected] www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de DAAD Stiftung Donation account Commerzbank Bonn IBAN: DE35 3804 0007 0112 6499 00 SWIFT-BIC: COBADEFFXXX www.daad-stiftung.de Info Centre Information for Germans going abroad: Tel. +49 (228) 882-180 www.daad.de/kontaktformular Information for international students coming to Germany: Tel. +49 (228) 882-180 www.daad.de/contactform DAAD OFFICES AROUND THE WORLD Eastern Europe, Western, Central Central Asia and and Southeastern South Caucasus: Europe: 62 212 North St Petersburg Kazan America: Riga Moscow Novosibirsk 22 Minsk London Berlin Warsaw Prague Kiev Brussels Bonn Budapest Toronto Bucharest Almaty Paris Belgrade New York Istanbul San Francisco Madrid Baku Bishkek Beijing Rome Tashkent Tokyo Athens Tbilisi Ankara Yerevan Dushanbe Seoul Tunis Beirut Erbil Tehran Tel Aviv Amman Islamabad Shanghai East Jerusalem New Delhi Cairo Guangzhou Dhaka Taipeh Mexico City Mumbai Middle East, Pune Hanoi Hong Kong North Africa: Bangkok 30 Bangalore Chennai San José Addis Ababa Colombo Ho Chi Minh City Accra Bogotá Yaoundé Kuala Lumpur Nairobi Latin Singapore America: 33 Sub-Saharan Jakarta Africa: Asia, 23 Pacific: 60 São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Johannesburg Santiago de Chile Buenos Aires Sydney 15 Regional Offices 5 German Centres for Research and Innovation (DWIH) 57 Information Centres (IC) DAAD headquarters in Bonn and Berlin Office 442 Lektorats As of: December 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 2 3 Alexander Gerst geophysicist, volcanologist and astronaut My DAAD-funded study visit to New Zealand was an important step on my path to the world of science. It enabled me to gain crucial international experience for my future career. In science – as is often the case in life – we can only truly understand something by looking beyond one’s horizon for a change of perspective. › European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst prepares for his first spacewalk. CONTENTS 5 6 Preface I 10 The DAAD at a Glance ABOUT US 14 The DAAD in 2018 – Insights II 18 Scholarships for the Best OUR 30 Structures for Internationalisation GOALS 40 What Digitalisation Means for the DAAD 42 Expertise for Academic Collaborations 46 Information from around the World III 50 German Language and German Studies OUR FIELDS 56 Development and Dialogue: OF WORK Sustainability through Education 64 European Cooperation in Higher Education 70 Higher Education and Research Marketing 74 International Research Cooperation 80 Transnational Education IV 86 Western, Central and Southeastern Europe OUR 90 Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus FUNDING 94 North America WORLDWIDE 98 Latin America 102 Middle East, North Africa 106 Sub-Saharan Africa 110 Asia, Pacific 114 Complete Overview V 118 Annual Financial Statement ANNEX 120 DAAD Bodies 121 Selection Committees 129 Abbreviations 130 Addresses in Germany and Abroad 132 DAAD Organisational Chart 6 PREFace › Prof Dr Margret Wintermantel President of the German Academic Exchange Service DEAR READERS, Times have not become easier for international tre for Transnational Criminal Justice in Cape academic cooperation over this past year 2018. Town, one of ten DAAD Centres of Excellence The ideal of a multilateral world order with in Africa. Another is Professor Kristina Spohr, progressively more integrated markets and who in autumn 2018 became the first researcher relatively open societies is under pressure. to hold the newly established Helmut Schmidt Instead, we are increasingly seeing tendencies Professor ship at the renowned Johns Hopkins towards rejection, isolation and division in School of Advanced International Studies in many parts of the world. Since it was founded Washington D.C. The DAAD-funded professor- in 1925, the DAAD has always stood for the exact ship at the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs opposite of these intentions. aims to strengthen transatlantic relations in challenging times. Luckily, we are not alone: driven by our mem- bers, German higher education institutions Johannes Meyer is still at the beginning of his and their student bodies, and supported by our academic career. He is studying physics and re- funding bodies, we were able to help ensure that ported on his experiences during a study visit in internationalisation efforts at German higher Canada as a correspondent for the DAAD cam- education institutions continued last year. In all, paign “study worldwide – EXPERIENCE IT”, fil- around 145,000 people were able to study or con- ing videos, photos and short articles. He posted duct research across borders with the DAAD’s his impressions on the campaign’s website and assistance in 2018. his social media channels in order to encour- age other students to spend a semester abroad. One of them was Dr Charity Wibabara, a na- Today Johannes Meyer is an “ambassador” for tional prosecutor in Rwanda since 2016 and study-related stays abroad and is invited to Ger- involved in the country’s justice and reconcili- man schools and universities to provide first- ation process. She studied and completed her hand answers to questions on the subject. dissertation at the South African German Cen- PREFACE PREFace 7 Mongolia is the home of Nomin-Erdene clusters climate change, energy transformation Nyamsambuu, a master’s student in adminis- and Earth system research. An expert jury has trative sciences at the University of Potsdam. selected a total of 13 international researchers Her educational history has been closely tied who will work in Germany for four years exam- to Germany since her school days. She attend- ining these issues with a dedicated team and in ed a PASCH school (“Schools: Partners for the close cooperation with their French colleagues. Future”) in her native city of Ulan Bator, where she took intensive German classes. With well European cooperation was an important above-average grades on her school-leaving focus of our work in the past year, and will certificate she received a DAAD scholarship in remain so in the future. While we explored the 2013 that allowed her to obtain her bachelor’s still uncertain effects of Brexit on academic degree in politics and public law in Bonn. exchange, there were clear and positive signals from Brussels – the European Commission Our Annual Report will tell you more about will significantly expand the funding available these and many other talented young interna- for cooperation between higher education tional researchers. Their stories highlight how institutions in Europe. A core aspect will be the DAAD funding can shape and positively influ- “European Universities” programme designed ence personal and academic biographies. mainly to aid strategic network building. The DAAD will support its member higher education The DAAD is more than just a scholarship or- institutions in entering into this dynamic ganisation. It also serves as a reliable partner process by launching a national initiative and to German higher education institutions in accompanying the European programme. their internationalisation efforts. Our struc- tural programmes support our members in co- Good news for international higher education operating with universities around the world. cooperation! One of these funding instruments, and among the DAAD’s most successful, is the “Partner- I hope you find this Annual Report to be inspir- ships with Higher Education Institutions in ing reading. East Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia” programme Yours sincerely, established in 1974. Eighty-two German and 305 foreign higher education institutions from 29 countries are currently participating in the programme. In the past year alone, around 2,500 students, scientists and researchers had the opportunity to visit Germany, while 1,700 Prof Dr Margret Wintermantel German students spent time at partner univer- sities in Eastern Europe. Bonn, April 2019 Alongside its proven and established funding formats, the DAAD also responds to current (higher education) policy discourse, setting trends for the further development of interna- tional higher education cooperation. One exam- ple is our newly established funding programme for climate, energy and Earth system research, “Make Our Planet Great Again – German Re- search Initiative”, which is intended to run for five years. Together with France, Germany will be supporting research in the three subject 8 ABOUT US 1 ABOUT US ABOUT US 9 ABOUT US 10 The DAAD at a Glance THE DAAD AT A GLANCE 1,020,000 1,465,000 funding recipients from abroad funding recipients from since 1950; 63,680 in 2018 Germany since 1950; 81,508 in 2018 145,188 funded students, graduates and researchers in 2018 32,000 558m students enrolled in German EUR is the DAAD’s overall transnational education budget. programmes worldwide 1.5m 45,000 visitors a year connect with students from Germany the DAAD at international completed an Erasmus stay education fairs. abroad in 2018. ABOUT US The DAAD at a Glance 11 DAAD headquarters in 57 Bonn and a Government Liaison Office in Berlin Information Centres around the globe 15 Regional Offices in partner countries worldwide 5 German Centres for Research and Innovation (DWIH) 442 managed by the DAAD lectureships at higher education institutions abroad 168 alumni associations (around the globe) 5 20 Centres of Excellence interdisciplinary Centres for worldwide German and European Studies at universities abroad ABOUT US 12 The DAAD at a Glance Organisation and people The German Academic Exchange Service at a General Assembly. Since 2012, the Executive (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Committee has been chaired by Prof Dr DAAD) arose from a student initiative and Margret Wintermantel as honorary president.