Deadline: April 30th and October 31st each year.
The Foundation for Freedom advocates the principles of freedom, responsibility, and a market economy, the rule of law, tolerance, and human rights. Our role is to offer political education as their contribution to uphold a free and democratic society. The goal of their work is to enthuse young men and women about the ideals of freedom and win them over as ambassadors who promote such ideals here and abroad.
Talent Promotion
The Talent Promotion program of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has been the liberal grantor of scholarships in Germany since 1973. They identify and empower talented university students to assume responsibility in politics, economy, science and the society and thereby use your own free spirits.
Whom do they support?
You fit the right profile, if you are a top-notch student at a college or university, have the courage to be a free thinker, and are involved socially. Their scholarships are for German and foreign university students and doctoral candidates studying in any field at a college or university.
- Capabilities and talent: They seek good to very good performance in specialty areas as well as multidisciplinary interests.
- Personality: The crucial facets that count are dedication, motivation, decisiveness, readiness to take on responsibility, and getting involved in promoting a free society.
- Liberal or social commitment: This means involvement in a student council, university committee, liberal political party, youth organization, ecclesiastic or social institution, human rights organization, cultural activities, environment protection, sports, within your family, or in a neighborhood help group.
Application and Selection
Please note: German language skills on a B2-level is obligatory for our scholarships. Therefore the application has to be submitted in German.
1. Fill out the application form and submit this with your CV and two references; doctoral candidates should include a précis of their planned research. For information and forms, visit stipendium.freiheit.org. Please note that they are converting to online applications, step-by-step.
2. They will preselect candidates based on the selection criteria.
3. If you are successful, they will invite you for a selection interview. This takes place with their independent selection committee.
4. They will notify you of acceptance or rejection within two weeks in writing, whereby you shall have no right of acceptance for a scholarship.
To apply, click here