Partners in Germany

Universities and university communities

KAAD scholarship holders find support and community at the German universities and student communities where they study. These communities are important partners on campus and have the right to nominate candidates for Scholarship Programme 3.

KAAD also works with individual German regions and institutions in country partnerships, for example for its third-country programme for refugees from Syria and Iraq in Lebanon and for youth and social work in Guatemala, and with partners for Myanmar, Ghana, Colombia and Bolivia.

Scholarship organisations and federal ministries

Brot für die Welt

Scholarship funding is a strategic part of the work of Brot für die Welt in Berlin. Coordination between KAAD and these partners is important for a joint position towards the federal ministries.

Cusanuswerk

KAAD is in close contact with the Cusanuswerk through an exchange of scholarship holders at educational events, occasional joint seminars abroad and regular meetings of management and staff.

DAAD

KAAD has many working contacts with the continental departments of the DAAD and with the political foundations, especially the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Görres Society

An exchange is under way with the Görres Society, which is building a new international network, including on projects with China that led to a joint conference at Tongji University (Shanghai) in 2019.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The good cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has resulted in three major joint academies abroad (Beirut, Addis Ababa, Porto Alegre).

Central Agency for Development Aid (KZE)

Cooperation with the KZE in Aachen, and through it with the BMZ, began in 1989. The KZE finances parts of Scholarship Programme 2 and, since 2015, in-country and third-country measures (Africa, Middle East, Latin America) as well as a third-country refugee programme for Syria and Iraq in Jordan and Lebanon. Through Renovabis, the KZE also finances parts of the Eastern Europe Programme for partner countries of German development cooperation.

Federal Foreign Office

Since its founding years, KAAD has worked closely with the Federal Foreign Office, a cooperation that has grown in recent years to include the Transformation Partnership with countries in the Middle East.

BMBF

With the BMBF, after the long standing joint BIOTA programme (East Africa), KAAD has received funding in water management for Vietnam in two joint projects at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

DFG

A DFG funded cooperation with a research network on Kilimanjaro, expanded to include a post-doc component, was continued in 2020.

Partners worldwide

The institutional framework for the sustainability of KAAD's support is its network of 46 partner committees and 35 alumni associations worldwide, which support reintegrated scholarship holders in their home regions and bundle their development potential.