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).
