The FHP Scholarship - inspiring, practical, close

The Work@Heart career entry programme offers specially designed advice and qualification measures to make it easier to start a career. In addition to workshops on topics such as job applications, time management and stress management, individual issues can also be addressed by coaches and mentors.

The Job Upgrade workshops and offers are an interdisciplinary additional qualification alongside the study content of the departments. The certificate is a proof of knowledge recognised by companies.

Participants can obtain certificates in one or each of the four specialisations and receive 3 ECTS credit points for each certificate:

• Perspectives on sustainability
• Digital world of work
• Intercultural competences
• Diversity and self-care

care4career teaches the basics for a holistic, personalised and therefore promising approach to career choices right from the start: Those who know themselves well, their strengths, potential and values, are more likely to find themselves in a professional field that they find fulfilling.

It is made up of 3 building blocks:

• Growth Journey
• Career Coaching
• workshops

care4career can be started at any time. By completing the programme, participants receive 2 ECTS credits and a meaningful certificate.

In addition to the courses offered in their own degree programme, students can also take interdisciplinary FLEX elective courses. With the FLEX courses at the Entrepreneurship School, students can acquire valuable theoretical and practical knowledge for their future careers and collect ECTS credits (5 to max. 10 per course). This includes, for example, a solid basic knowledge of business administration, knowledge of innovation and project management or presentation skills.

The start-up counselling service offers support with start-up projects, promoting ideas and applying for funding when setting up a business. The service is supplemented by external consultants who offer assistance with financing, legal issues and marketing for self-employment.

If you are interested in self-employment, you can apply for start-up scholarships such as EXIST-Women or the EXIST-Gründungsstipendium in addition to the FHP scholarship.

In addition to the annual kick-off event First-Step-Connect and the ceremonial awarding of the grants in the winter semester, a LinkedIn group is available to grant recipients and graduates for information on events and for networking.

Applications must be submitted in writing by e-mail.

Please send two attachments in ONE e-mail:

a) the application form
b) the application documents to be attached(see below)

in one PDF file (max. 10 MB) to deutschlandstipendium@fh-potsdam.de in due form and time.

The date of receipt of the e-mail applies. Applications not submitted in due form and time will not be considered in the selection process.

You can apply for an FHP scholarship at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam if you

• are enrolled at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam for the winter semester 2025/26 and are within the standard period of study during the funding period.
• have an outstanding academic record or, as a first-year student, have already achieved outstanding academic or professorial recruitment results prior to your studies.
• do not receive any other talent- and performance-related material support from the organisations for the promotion of gifted students, the Academic Exchange Service, the Foundation for the Promotion of Gifted Students in Vocational Education and Training and comparable institutions of the federal states or foreign bodies, the monthly average of which reaches or exceeds 30 euros.

Your application must include the following documents:

1. Application form
2. letter of motivation
3. Curriculum vitae in tabular form
4. current certificate of enrolment or acceptance letter
5. Higher education entrance qualification and, if available, proof of previous academic achievements (current transcript of records and ECTS credits earned, i.e. request the version of the transcript of records with a stated grade point average from the examination service)
6. Bachelor's certificate (only required for applicants to the MA programme)
7. Internship and work certificate

Optional documents

1. Proof of special honours, prizes, other knowledge and other commitments
2. Proof of chronic illnesses/impairments

The criteria for awarding a scholarship in accordance with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam guidelines are

• Grade of the higher education entrance qualification, if available grade or score of the aptitude test and, if applicable, special study-relevant qualifications
• Course of study and academic achievements to date, ECTS credits, results of intermediate examinations or intermediate diploma
• for students on MA programmes, final grade of the previous diploma or Bachelor's degree course
• Previous professional activity and internships
• additional results such as special achievements, awards and prizes, extracurricular or extracurricular activities such as voluntary work or social, societal and (university) political commitment and participation in religious communities, associations and clubs
• Special personal and family aspects, in particular caring for own children or relatives in need of care, own physical or mental impairment, employment during studies and own educational biography

The University President of Applied Sciences Potsdam approves the scholarships on the basis of the selection committee's proposals and established selection criteria.

The approval period is one year and begins in the winter semester.

General information

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam treats your personal data confidentially; it is collected and processed exclusively for the selection of suitable applicants and for the implementation of the Deutschland-Stipendium programme. Your data may be transmitted to the responsible departments of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam involved in the selection process as well as to the public and, if applicable, private donors financing your scholarship in accordance with § 13 of the Scholarship Programme Act (StipG) for the purpose of selection and subsequent possible awarding of the Deutschlandstipendium. These persons are of course obliged to maintain confidentiality.

The legal basis for this is § 10 StipG. According to this, applicants for the scholarship programme are obliged to provide the information required to assess the performance and aptitude requirements and to submit the relevant evidence. It is up to you which of these details you provide: Tell us what qualifies you for the Deutschlandstipendium!

We are aware that some of the information you provide is highly confidential; some of the details (e.g. about illnesses or migration background) are special types of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR. Your data will always be treated confidentially and protected by up-to-date technical security measures.

Statistics, evaluation and anonymisation

In accordance with Section 13 StipG, we are obliged to transmit grant recipient data to the Federal Statistical Office in order to compile federal statistics. This is done anonymously, i.e. without providing your name and contact details.

Random samples to exclude double funding

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) carries out random checks based on the data of funded students in accordance with Section 4 (2) StipG in order to avoid double funding. For this purpose, the BMBF may request and store the surname, first name, date of birth, address and university location of individual sponsored students and compare them with the data of other sponsoring institutions. The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is legally obliged to transmit this data. The data will be deleted after the random sample has been carried out. If a scholarship is awarded, the data will be stored for these purposes for a period of six years after the end of funding. If your application is unsuccessful in this selection procedure, we will store your data for a maximum of 18 months in order to be able to consider you in a subsequent selection procedure and to simplify an application in the next selection procedure.

Data Protection Officer

The contact details of our Data Protection Officer are as follows

Data Protection Officer of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 580-1086
Email: datenschutz@fh-potsdam.de
Postal address: Kiepenheuerallee 5, 14469 Potsdam

This data protection information is based on the recommendations of the Service Centre Deutschlandstipendium of the BMBF

I am aware that the funding can be revoked if false information is provided and that any funding already received must be repaid. There is no legal entitlement to the Deutschlandstipendium of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

I undertake to inform the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam immediately if I have completed the last examination for my studies, if I exmatriculate, interrupt, drop out or do not start my studies at all, if I take one or more semesters off or change university or subject area, or if I receive another talent- and performance-related material support at the same time as the Deutschlandstipendium with an average of more than 30 euros per month.

Random checks to exclude double funding

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) carries out random checks based on the data of funded students in accordance with § 4 Paragraph 2 StipG in order to avoid double funding. For this purpose, the BMBF may request and store the surname, first name, date of birth, address and university location of individual sponsored students and compare them with the data of other sponsoring institutions. The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is legally obliged to transmit this data. The data will be deleted after the random sample has been carried out. If a scholarship is awarded, the data will be stored for these purposes for a period of six years after the end of funding. If your application is unsuccessful in this selection process, we will store your data for a maximum of 18 months in order to be able to consider you in a subsequent selection process if necessary and to simplify an application in the next selection process.

Contact with the sponsor

Your sponsor may wish to get to know you in order to invite you to events or perhaps offer you an internship. However, this contact is only possible if you agree to disclose your data to the sponsor. This is completely voluntary.

Contact with other grant recipients and nominees (successors)

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam would like to promote contact between grant recipients and nominees (successors) and network them with each other. However, this contact is only possible if you consent to the disclosure of your data to the other grant recipients and nominees (successors). This is completely voluntary.

All natural or legal persons who provide private funds - for example companies, foundations, associations or private individuals - can endow an FHP scholarship.

If the requirements of the Scholarship Programme Act are met, a private grant of 150 euros is subsidised by the federal government. This results in a monthly scholarship of 300 euros. The private grant can also exceed 150 euros, which means that a higher scholarship can be paid out. However, the maximum state grant is 150 euros.

Further information on the Deutschlandstipendium can be found on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Convinced? Then please complete the scholarship agreement and send it to neslihan.ulrichs@fh-potsdam.de.

• Informationen zum Deutschlandstipendium für Fördernde (PDF, 1.56 MB)