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At the annual scholarship celebration, sponsors and scholarship holders meet to exchange ideas, get to know each other or meet again. In an informal atmosphere, there will be the opportunity to talk about professional perspectives and ideal support. A review of the previous celebrations can be found under References.

The scholarship celebration to mark the beginning of the scholarship year 2020/21 took place virtually on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. In the following you will find a review of the event.

Review of the virtual scholarship celebration on December 07, 2021

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On December 07, 2021, the Deutschlandstipendium opened the funding year 2021/2022 at the TU Dresden again with a virtual scholarship celebration due to contact restrictions by Corona. Around 330 scholarship holders and sponsors followed the celebration online and met afterwards in virtual session rooms. Thanks to the support of 87 sponsors of full scholarships (companies, foundations, associations, private individuals) as well as many participants in fundraising events, the Deutschlandstipendium could be awarded to 292 scholarship holders at TU Dresden in the academic year 2021/22.

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The moderator team, consisting of Franziska Plathner and Matthias Spaniel, opened the ceremony. They were supported by the wonderful jazz trio Victor Möhmel, Timur Valitov and Kateryna Kravchenko - themselves also current and former Deutschlandstipendiat:innen of the Dresden University of Music. By means of a small survey, the audience revealed, among other things, that despite the purely digital execution of the event, almost every third had dressed festively for the scholarship celebration. Afterwards, the rector of the TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinge, told in an interview how she financed her psychology studies at that time and what she wishes for the Deutschlandstipendium in the next 10 years. Another highlight of the supporting program was the interview and virtual certificate presentation with the scholarship holders of the fundraising campaign GEMEINSAM+10 and Stips4Stips DSTIP-Challenge. They not only gave an insight into their lives as students of the TU Dresden but also into their living rooms.

The event concluded with a "get together" in more than 40 virtual session rooms. The scholarship holders and sponsors were able to get to know each other on camera and talk about the support provided by the Deutschlandstipendium, career prospects and working from home.

After the official ceremony, the AG Stammtisch invited everyone to a virtual after-show party and an informal exchange of ideas. Until late in the evening, people celebrated, played and listened to music together.

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