Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Scholarship Programme for International Doctoral Students

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLF) is a political educational organisation closely affiliated with DIE LINKE (The Left Party) which awards scholarships to foreigners who come to Germany for their dissertation or in order to conduct research as part of their dissertation. The sponsorship is based upon the Foundation's political values: social justice and solidarity in particular. The program targets particularly gifted international doctoral candidates from any discipline (except for medical disciplines) and type of higher education institution with a promising topic for a doctoral thesis who can identify with and are committed to democratic socialism and its values. Doctoral candidates receive a grant of 1,400 EUR each month plus a mobility allowance of 100 EUR and a further lump sum of 20 EUR. If the dissertation is being written at a German university, the maximum duration of the scholarship is 3 years. The length of a research stay in Germany as part of a dissertation being completed at a foreign institution depends on the specifics of the research stay and can last no longer than 3 years.