Excellence scholarships

HAW Hamburg awards scholarships to high-performing international Bachelor's students as of the third subject semester and to international Master's students as of the second subject semester. The funding for the scholarships is provided by the City of Hamburg.

Update from 28 February 2023: 

  • Instructors and professors are requested to send their letters of reference to the International Office's temporary email address: io_scholarships (at) gmx (dot) de. Students who have previously received the scholarship do not need to submit new letters of reference; however, they can do so if they wish to improve their application (e.g. if their grades have improved significantly relative to the previous semester).
  • Students are asked to submit the most recent transcript from myHAW or Stysis that they have available from the period before the cyber-attack. Downloads from the iCloud to your mobile phone may contain versions of the transcript that were downloaded before the attack. Under 'Sonstiges/Other', please upload your own list of the courses, grades and credit points that are missing from your myHAW or Stysis transcript. If you have not yet downloaded a copy of your myHAW or Stysis transcript at any point during your studies, then please upload only your own list of the grades, courses and credit points that you have already completed under 'Leistungsübersicht/transcript'. Please wait until just a few days before the deadline to do so in case the transcripts become available again by the end of March. 
  • You can request a certificate of enrolment by writing to myhaw (at) posteo (dot) de.
  • The Mobility Online application portal is now activated (see below).

Application criteria

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Duration and amount of funding

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Application deadlines

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Application documents

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Submitting your application / Contact information

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FAQs

Residency permits

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Selection process

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BAföG (student financial aid)

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Application criteria

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Multiple scholarships

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Volunteer activity

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Financial situation

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Maximum funding duration

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Letters of reference

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Transcript

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Mobility Online

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Letter of application

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Standard period of study (Regelstudienzeit)

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