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23 unusual facts about German Academic Exchange Service


Alcides Lanza

In 1972-1973 he was composer-in-residence at the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin and he gave recital tours in Scandinavia and Germany.

Celso Antunes

Antunes studied singing and conducting at the University of São Paulo, achieved recognition as assistant conductor of the São Paulo Youth Symphony Orchestra and obtained a DAAD scholarship to complete his studies on at the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany, where he graduated in 1990.

DAAD

The German Academic Exchange Service (German Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)

Eric Heinze

After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Gariné Torossian

She was awarded a DAAD (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) filmmaker fellowship in Berlin in 2007.

German International School of Silicon Valley

DAAD full scholarship for 4 years in Germany for a non-native German speaker (an extremely prestigious award!).

German-Jordanian University

GJU receives government aid through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and also the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences are contributing.

Guido Rings

In 2010, the German Academic Exchange Service invited Guido Rings to join the University of Düsseldorf where he delivered courses on ‘Identity and Otherness in contemporary Spanish cinema about migration’, ‘The Conquest of America in the new historical narrative of Spain and Latin American’ and ‘1910-2010: The other Mexico – from the Novel of the Mexican Revolution to Zapatist hypertexts’.

Jacob Kwakye-Maafo

In August 1961 he was awarded the Ghana Government Scholarship to study Medicine in Germany where he studied German at the University of Leipzig and University of Greifswald in 1962; he was admitted to the Freie University of Berlin, under the German/Ghanaian Scholarship Programme DAAD.

Jean-François Berdah

He held DAAD scholarships in 1983–1984 and 1988, and promoted in 1996 at Paris 12 Val de Marne University.

Mário Vieira de Carvalho

Research grants from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1980-1984), DAAD, Germany (1992), and Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (1995).

Mark Bassin

His research has also been supported by grants from the AHRC, British Academy, DAAD, NCEEER, NEH, and the Ford Foundation.

Mark Prent

In 1974, Mark Prent's friend, installation artist Edward Kienholz, secured Prent an invitation to live and work in Berlin, Germany via the German Academic Exchange Service.

Mauricio Rosenmann Taub

He studied piano and composition initially in Santiago, then in Stuttgart and Freiburg with a Scholarship of the DAAD.

Michael Rees

He traveled to Germany in 1983-84 on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) award to study with Joseph Beuys and Gunther Uecker.

Minerva Cuevas

Cuevas was awarded the DAAD grant in Berlin (2005) and was part of the Delfina Studios residency program in London (2001).

Moshe Zimmermann

He was honoured with the Humboldt Prize in 1993, and the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize from the German Academic Exchange Service in 1997.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

Stefan Lano

Among his awards as a composer are a BMI Award, First Prize in the National Society of Arts and Letters Composition Competition, an American Music Center Grant and a Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for further study of composition with Isang Yun in Berlin in 1977.

Stephen Beville

In 2001, Beville won a DAAD scholarship to study with Wolfgang Rihm at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe in Germany, where he obtained the Konzertexamen both in Composition and Performance - First Class.

Tarek Kamel

From 1989 to 1992 he pursued his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Todd Hedrick

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Ursula Huth

A scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) made it possible for her to pursue her study from 1980 until 1982 at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and she graduated with a Master in Fine Arts.


Academic Cooperation Association

ACA was founded in June 1993 by the British Council, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC).

Günter Faltin

He was deputy president of the German Society for Education, Invention and Innovation, (DABEI), Berlin Section between 1984 and 1988; and visiting professor and research consultant at Thammasat University, Bangkok, 1986, and Chiang Mai University 1988 - 1990 (sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service).

Younghi Pagh-Paan

In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld.