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German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; German: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), The German Academic Exchange Service e. V. (DAAD), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Joybrato Mukherjee has been President since January 1, 2020.
The DAAD claims to be the world's largest funding organization for the international exchange of students and academics. Since its foundation in 1925, the DAAD has supported more than 3 million academics in Germany and abroad (as of 2024).
However, its workings go far beyond awarding scholarships: promoting the internationalization of German universities and research, providing strategic advice to universities in the field of internationalization and concerning questions of international university marketing, strengthening German studies, the German language and German studies abroad, supporting countries of the Global South in establishing efficient universities as well as advising decision-makers in cultural policy, education policy and development policy.
In 2024, the DAAD, including the EU programmes, supported more than 140,000 people around the globe, making it the largest funding organization of its kind in the world. Its services range from semesters abroad for Bachelor's and Master's students to doctoral studies, from internships to guest lectureships, from information visits to the establishment of universities abroad. The DAAD supports the international activities of German universities through marketing services, publications, events and training courses, but also through special funding programs for the establishment of international university partnerships. Scholarships for foreigners are advertised via the DAAD scholarship database and publicized via the German embassies, the DAAD regional offices, the information centers (IC), DAAD lecturers and partner universities abroad. Contact with the DAAD for German students is usually arranged by the International Office of a university. One exception is the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, which is aimed at visual artists, writers and musicians.
The DAAD is also the National Agency for the coordination and implementation of the European Union's Erasmus+ program for the higher education sector.
The statutory name is “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (German Academic Exchange Service), in legally binding letters with the addition e. V. In its publications, the association also used the variants “Austausch-Dienst” and “Austausch Dienst” to clarify the acronym DAAD until the beginning of 2015.
In view of the global challenges facing international academic cooperation and according to the DAAD the growing importance of international academic exchange, the DAAD published a new strategy in January 2025. The DAAD Strategy 2030 serves as a compass for the DAAD. It analyzes the current framework conditions of international academic cooperation and, on this basis, formulates the priorities and goals of the DAAD's work until 2030. The DAAD Strategy 2030 emphasizes the role of the DAAD as an actor in foreign science policy and science diplomacy and systematically takes current developments at universities and in society into account.
Against this background, the DAAD Strategy 2030 sets four priorities:
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German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; German: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), The German Academic Exchange Service e. V. (DAAD), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Joybrato Mukherjee has been President since January 1, 2020.
The DAAD claims to be the world's largest funding organization for the international exchange of students and academics. Since its foundation in 1925, the DAAD has supported more than 3 million academics in Germany and abroad (as of 2024).
However, its workings go far beyond awarding scholarships: promoting the internationalization of German universities and research, providing strategic advice to universities in the field of internationalization and concerning questions of international university marketing, strengthening German studies, the German language and German studies abroad, supporting countries of the Global South in establishing efficient universities as well as advising decision-makers in cultural policy, education policy and development policy.
In 2024, the DAAD, including the EU programmes, supported more than 140,000 people around the globe, making it the largest funding organization of its kind in the world. Its services range from semesters abroad for Bachelor's and Master's students to doctoral studies, from internships to guest lectureships, from information visits to the establishment of universities abroad. The DAAD supports the international activities of German universities through marketing services, publications, events and training courses, but also through special funding programs for the establishment of international university partnerships. Scholarships for foreigners are advertised via the DAAD scholarship database and publicized via the German embassies, the DAAD regional offices, the information centers (IC), DAAD lecturers and partner universities abroad. Contact with the DAAD for German students is usually arranged by the International Office of a university. One exception is the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, which is aimed at visual artists, writers and musicians.
The DAAD is also the National Agency for the coordination and implementation of the European Union's Erasmus+ program for the higher education sector.
The statutory name is “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (German Academic Exchange Service), in legally binding letters with the addition e. V. In its publications, the association also used the variants “Austausch-Dienst” and “Austausch Dienst” to clarify the acronym DAAD until the beginning of 2015.
In view of the global challenges facing international academic cooperation and according to the DAAD the growing importance of international academic exchange, the DAAD published a new strategy in January 2025. The DAAD Strategy 2030 serves as a compass for the DAAD. It analyzes the current framework conditions of international academic cooperation and, on this basis, formulates the priorities and goals of the DAAD's work until 2030. The DAAD Strategy 2030 emphasizes the role of the DAAD as an actor in foreign science policy and science diplomacy and systematically takes current developments at universities and in society into account.
Against this background, the DAAD Strategy 2030 sets four priorities: