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DAAD North America's 2021 Contest

2021 marks 50 years of DAAD in the USA, and to celebrate, we’re hosting a big, virtual dinner. We need your contributions! #WhatsKochen invites enrolled college students from across North America to submit video entries via TikTok to our 2021 contest.

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DAAD Photo Contest Second Prize Winner Mareike Lange

Mareike Lange is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She has a Bachelor’s in Education (Erziehungswissenschaft) and Sociology from the University of Potsdam in Germany. Her Master’s thesis is titled: "Die männliche Herrschaft und die weibliche Lebensführung: Der vergeschlechtlichte Habitus in Arthur Schnitzlers Frau Berta Garlan“. Her research interests include intellectual history, social history and theory and gender studies, focusing on the writings of the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, and Pierre Bourdieu.

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2019 Annual DAAD Contest

Announcing the Winners of #BeyondBordersBeyondYourself

Congratulations to the winners of our 2019 Annual DAAD Photo Contest! Thank you to all who participated and to all those who voted for their favorite image.

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#BeyondBordersBeyondYourself

2019 DAAD Photo Contest

In honor of the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we invite you to share with us pictures that explore how you challenged your comfort zone and boundaries in Germany or vis-à-vis German culture or language worldwide.

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2018 Annual DAAD Contest

Announcing the Winners of #YourHiddenGermany

Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 Annual DAAD Photo Contest! Thank you to all who participated and to all those who voted for their favorite image.

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Alumni Competition

Teaching the Global Goals

The Hands-On Project 2017 will deal with the topics “2030 Agenda” and “Sustainable Development Goals” (see the Alumniportal pages for further information on these topics). The challenge for the participants is to develop information or education materials which can contribute in innovative ways to make various social target groups aware of the 2030 Agenda and to raise their sensitivity for the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Falling Walls Lab

Together with DAAD, the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) New York will host the Falling Walls Lab, a global forum for innovators to pitch their research and business ideas on September 14, 2017. Entrepreneurs, innovators, and researchers will present their ground-breaking projects, business plans, entrepreneurial and social initiatives in three-minute pitches.

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Contest: The Life of Martin Luther

And the Winners Are...

The theme of this year’s annual contest was centered on the major life events of the theologian and thinker, Martin Luther in honor of the 500th anniversary of his Ninety-Five Theses. The quizzes have been taken, and the scores tabulated, recorded and reviewed! Now it is our pleasure to announce the results of the 2017 DAAD Annual Contest, which was concluded on April 18th.

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Planet Earth Wants You

Green Talents Award 2017

When young talents around the world put their heads together they come up with the best ideas. The greater the variety of perspectives and the larger the numbers of people from different subject areas, the more creative and innovative their ideas and solutions will be.

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