March
| - Start of fundraising for the new funding period (from October)
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April
| - Start of the summer semester
- Payments due for donations made by the semester
- Inquiries about further funding and earmarking for the new funding period
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May
| - Performance review for current scholarship holders including applications for scholarship extensions
- Announcement of the application periods for the next funding period and the names of donors who have thus far committed to the program as well as the earmarking of funds (degree programs)
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June
| - Information session for students interested in applying for the Deutschlandstipendium
- Start of the application period for students for the new funding period
- Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - donors have the opportunity to attend (please note: for 2020, the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften has been cancelled due to the novel Corona virus)
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July
| - End of the application period for students for the new funding period
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August
| - The selection committee evaluates the applications
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September
| - End of the funding period
- Deadline for concluding a funding agreement for the new funding period beginning in October (new agreements or agreement extensions)
- Matching of scholarship holders and donors for the new funding period
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October
| - Start of the funding period (start of the winter semester)
- Payments due for the funding period
- Scholarship holders are notified of their acceptance to the program and sign an acceptance declaration (including agreement to their contact details being provided to donors)
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November
| - Scholarship holders’ contact details are provided to their respective donors (only with scholarship holders’ prior agreement)
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December
| - Welcome meeting for scholarship holders for the new funding period - start of the support program with the scholarship holder working teams (AG Netzwerk (Networking), AG Wissen (Knowledge), AG Öffentlichkeit (Public Relations), AG Soziales (Social Affairs) - Affected by the wide-reaching impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, this traditional welcome event cannot take place as planned. We are working on finding a suitable alternative format for the beginning of 2021.
- Scholarship holders are provided with their respective donors’ contact details (only with prior agreement)
- Certificates of donation sent to donors
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spring 2021
| - Deutschlandstipendium award ceremony - Awarding of scholarship certificates to sponsors and scholarship holders, opportunity to meet and get to know one another, group photographs - Due to the wide-reaching impacts of the coronavirus pandemic this event cannot take place as planned in January. We are working on finding a suitable alternative format which can hopefully take place in spring 2021.
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