The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. The agency offers programs and funding for students, faculty, researchers and others in higher education. Since its’ founding in 1925 the DAAD has supported nearly 1.5 million scholars with funding.

Patricia Chaves from Rio de Janeiro began her training as an engineer in Brazil and made a conscious decision to specialize in renewable energies in Germany – by completing a postgraduate programme...

When ordering fish at a restaurant, what goes through your mind? There is the obvious recognition of hunger and attempt to subdue it with a tasty entrée, but what about how the fish got to the restaurant? For most of us, the process of mass fishing as well as its effects on the environment rarely – if ever – enters our thought process. However, for 35-year-old Indonesian Irendra Radjawali, nothing

“I want to make a difference for my country,” says molecular biologist Dr Damaris Odeny from Kenya. Damaris works at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. She wants to learn as much as possible in order to combat hunger in her own country – by breeding more resilient plants, thereby improving harvests.

Catching up with the wild donkeys that roam the endless Mongolian flatlands is not easy. The animals live in a harsh climate of extreme heat and cold. They are fast runners, reaching speeds of 60 kilometers an hour.