A Common Future in a Just World

For more than 60 years, KAAD has been offering scholarships, educational and networking support to students and young professionals from the Global South so that they can take on leadership roles in the social and cultural development of their countries.

The central task of KAAD according to its statutes (last version of May 2012) is:

„… to promote through its scholarship organisation young people from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe by offering stipends for academic studies, in particular postgraduate studies and research stays, so that they can take on leadership roles in the social and cultural development of their countries based on social responsibility and commitment to Church matters" (§ 2).

The scholarship programmes of the KAAD are an expression of the orientation towards a dialogue with the Global Church and a development policy of the German Catholic Church:

By supporting lay people who are committed to the Church or non-Christian students as well as academics, KAAD aims to contribute to the partnership between the German Church and the churches of the Global South and Eastern Europe as well as to the dialogue between the world religions in general. At the same time, the scholarship holders are to assist in the development process of their countries as future multipliers in the academic and scientific field and beyond. They shall understand development as an integral process encompassing all dimensions of human life.