Partner in Germany

Cooperation with university pastoral care and dioceses

In very many cases, KAAD scholarship holders find their spiritual home abroad in the German university and student communities, even at a time when developments in German Catholicism bring with them particular experiences of difference and challenges. For us, the parishes are the most important pillars of "ideal support" at the university locations. They also have the right to propose candidates for the Scholarship Program 2.

As a member of the Forum Hochschule und Kirche, the General Secretary is involved in issues such as internationalization at German universities. These activities are part of a clearing function that the KAAD performs for the German Bishops' Conference in matters of internationalization and foreign students.

KAAD works together with individual dioceses in the form of country partnerships. Currently, there is a cooperation with the World Church Work of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, which includes funding as part of our third-country refugee program for Syria and Iraq in Lebanon as well as the promotion of church-pastoral multipliers in the field of youth and social work in Guatemala. There is also cooperation with Regensburg (Myanmar) and Münster (Ghana), as well as with Aachen (Colombia) and Hildesheim (Bolivia).

Scholarship organizations and federal ministries

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On the Protestant side, scholarship funding is strategically integrated into the work of "Brot für die Welt" as part of the EWDE work in Berlin. The coordination of KAAD with the Protestant partners is of great importance for a joint positioning vis-à-vis the federal ministries.

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We are in good contact with the Cusanuswerk through an exchange of scholarship holders at educational events, occasional joint seminars abroad and regular meetings between management and staff.

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We also have many working contacts with the continental departments of the DAAD and with the political foundations, especially the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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Also with the Görres Societywhich is establishing a new international network, an exchange is also underway, including on projects with China, which led to a joint conference at Tongji University (Shanghai) in 2019.

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The good cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has already found expression three times in the past in major joint academies abroad (Beirut, Addis Ababa, Porto Alegre).

Cooperation with the Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid (KZE, Aachen) and thus also with the BMZ began as early as 1989. The KZE finances parts of our scholarship program 1 and additionally, from 2015, sur-place and third country measures (Africa, Middle East, Latin America) as well as a third country refugee program Syria/Iraq in Jordan and Lebanon Mediated by Renovabis, the KZE also finances parts of the Eastern Europe program for the partner countries of German development cooperation (for cooperation with Renovabis in general and in the alumni area, see chapter 2.5).

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Since its founding years, the KAAD has enjoyed close cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office, which has expanded in recent years to include the "Transformation Partnership" (with countries in the Middle East).

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With the BMBF following the expiry of the long-standing joint BIOTA program (East Africa) through funding in the field of water management for Vietnam in the context of two joint projects at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT).

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In addition, a DFG-funded cooperation with a research network on Kilimanjaro, expanded to include a post-doc component, was continued in 2020.

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After an initial world congress on pastoral care for foreign students, the KAAD, Afro-Asian Institutes (AAI, Austria) and Justinuswerk (Switzerland) formed the SECIS.

Partners worldwide

The institutional framework for the sustainability of our funding is the KAAD network of 46 partner committees and 35 alumni associations worldwide, which provides idealistic support and guidance for reintegrated scholarship holders in their home regions and bundles their development potential.

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