I. DAAD Fellowship/Scholarship Programmes
1. Fellowship Programmes for Indian Postgraduates: Essential Prerequisites
Candidates for 1.1.1 Research Fellowships for Young Scholars and Recent Post-docs, and for 1.1.2 Sandwich-Model Fellowships for Ph. D. Scholars, must possess at least a master's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in India or abroad (provided the latter is recognised by the appropriate authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany).

.Candidates for 1.1.3 Sandwich-model Scholarships for M.S. (Research) and M. Tech. students at Indian Institutes of Technology must be enrolled in an M.S (Research) or an M. Tech. programme and must be registered for course work at an IIT according to the regulations of the IIT.

.Candidates must be residing in India at the time of application

1.1. Long-term Fellowships
These fellowships are offered primarily through DAAD's partner organisations in india, as part of the Cultural Agreement between the Government of India and the Federal Republic of Germany: The Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi (HRD), the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (UGC), and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (CSIR). The fellowship are announced in July/August and the application forms are made available from them.

Fellowships are initially, for one year preceded by a two-to-six, most I commonly four-month German language course in Germany arranged and funded by DAAD. Upon application and proper documentation, they are extendable up to another 12 months.

Applications are invited in the fields of : Agriculture, Communication/Information Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Forestry, Horticulture, German language and Literature/ German Studies, Humanities, International Law, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Veterinary Science, and Sports.

These long-term fellowships are of three kinds: