Application Portal
Please go to our online application portal during the application period. You will find the link to the portal in the respective course description of the upcoming courses. After registering with a valid email address, you can log in and start the application process. You will be guided through the following steps:
- Personal information
- Portrait picture, for example passport photograph (image file)
- Educational record
- A certified copy of your last university degree, including mark sheet/ transcript of records (as one PDF file)
- Further university certificates (as one PDF file)
- Professional experience
- Endorsement by organization
- Organisational chart indicating your present position in your institution (PDF file; you can find the organization chart of the German Environment Agency (UBA) as an example here)
- Scan of the form “official nomination” signed by your nominating institution. You will find the link to the nomination form in the application portal both on the overview page after selecting the course for which you would like to apply and during the application in the data mask of the Endorsement by organization section.
- Letter of Support from your home institution (as one PDF file)
- International experience & proficiency in the English language
- Latest English test results, unless you are a native speaker, English is an official language in your country, or your academic education was in English (as one PDF file).
If English is your native language, please write and upload a short signed statement instead. If English has been the language of instruction for at least six months during your tertiary education, please upload a proof of this.
- Latest English test results, unless you are a native speaker, English is an official language in your country, or your academic education was in English (as one PDF file).
- Motivation
- Country-specific questions: In this part, please describe your countries situation with respect to the course topic, as well as how you and your institutions are involved.
- Please note: Use your own words for answering the questions in the application. Cases of copy and paste will usually be noticed and, depending on the extent, will lead to a downgrading or disqualification of the application.
- Important: Applicants should apply for only one course. In fact, applying for several courses (at the same time) could considerably reduce your chances of being selected, especially when applications are similar to one and another. This means that questions in this section must be differently and accordingly answered for each course application.
- Medical statement
- When applying for a short course: Choice of scholarship type
- 16 full scholarships: They include accommodation in single studio apartments, local public transport ticket, all tuition fees, round-trip flight tickets from participant's country of origin to Dresden and back, insurance, and a contribution of €550.
- Five partial scholarships: They solely include accommodation in single studio apartments, local public transport ticket, and all tution fees. These scholarships can be awarded to applicants who are able to cover the costs for flight tickets, insurance and living expenses on their own.
For these partial fellowships, however, also applicants who currently reside in a non-DAC country are eligible, if their origin and (prospective) area of professional engagement is in a DAC country.
- Submission
If you have completed the submission of your application, you can be sure your application will be fully considered. You will not receive an additional confirmation email.
CIPSEM informs only successful applicants via email. However, you can check the status of your application at all times by logging in to the application portal. We kindly ask you to refrain from contacting us for further enquiries. With almost 1000 applications per year, it is unfortunately out of our capacity to provide detailed feedback on individual applications.