Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

My PhD was supported by a scholarship of the “Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung“.

The FES is financially funded and subsidized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and supports students with outstanding academical and political achievements. Awards are granted after a multi-stage selection process and are based on grades, letters of recommendation, letters of motivation, political and social engagement as well as personality and character.

The Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation was founded in 1925 as a political legacy of Germany´s first democratically elected president Friedrich Ebert.
Ebert, a social democrat from a humble crafts background, who had risen to hold the highest political office in his country, in response to his own painful experience in political confrontation, had proposed the establishment of a foundation to serve the following aims:

• furthering political and social education of individuals from all walks of life in the spirit of democracy and pluralism,
• fasciliating access to university education and research for gifted young people by providing scholarships,
• contributing to the international understanding and cooperation.

In its graduate and post-graduate programmes the FES supports students from Germany and abroad. With the supplementary seminar programme the FES aims at building bridges between science and its practical application and at creating a better understanding about the purpose and the nature of democracy and social policy.