The prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), endowed with 1,000 EUR, distinguishes an outstanding international student or doctoral candidate who has excelled through particular academic performance as well as remarkable social or intercultural commitment.

Applicants for the DAAD Prize must be nominated by professors, international student advisors of the corresponding faculties or supervisors of the final thesis/dissertation. These applicants may also have graduated just recently.

Students can be nominated by professors, deans, prorectors, representatives for international students and lecturers.

• show excellent academic achievements (average grade between 1.0 to 1.7),
• engage in social and/or intercultural activities,
• are foreign students/Bildungsausländer*) and do not have German citizenship,
• aim for a degree at TU Dortmund University (it is not possible to nominate visiting or exchange students),
• are at least in the 3rd semester (BA) or 2nd semester (MA) or young graduates (at the time of the award ceremony, the degree should not date back any longer than three months) or doctoral students.

*) Bildungsauslaender are international students who have acquired their higher education entrance qualification abroad or who have completed school qualifications acquired abroad with a German preparatory college.

• Nomination letter from your dean, professor, graduation thesis supervisor or student advisor.
• If you contribute to a group/club/etc. on campus, a university employee must write a letter of recommendation stating your activities on an academic and social, societal or intercultural level.
• If you contribute to a group/club/etc. off-campus, a letter of recommendation from a management office is required. This letter must show the commitment on a social, societal or intercultural level.
• Current curriculum vitae.
• Current overview of grades.
• Current study certificate.
• Motivational letter (max. 1 page)
• Proof(s) or certificate(s) of voluntary commitment.

The selection is made by a committee consisting of the International Office and the Vice President for International Affairs. The DAAD prize is expected to be presented at the Come2Campus welcome event in the winter semester.

2023: Abdallah Abdelmonaem (Department of Mechanical Engineering)

2022: María Ángeles García Flores (Department of Statistics)

2021: Brian Hess (Department of Cultural Studies)

2020: Denis Belonogov (Department Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)

2019: Elena Shashko (Department of Computer Science)

2018: Komay Saimouaa (Department of Computer Science)

2017: Ahmed Adeil Ilyas (Department of Mechanical Engineering)

2016: Jianshuang Xu (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)

2015: Rajkumar Palaniappan (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)

2014: Esmeray Üstünyağız (Department of Mechanical Engineering)

2013: Kristian Aknolt Pakpahan (Department of Humanities and Theology)

2012: Maia Iobidze (Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology)