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Dr. Herena Torio
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Prof. Dr. Carsten Agert

Address
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School of Mathematics and Science
Institute of Physics
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany

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Application

How to Apply for SuRE

Requirements

  • Applicants must have successfully completed a regular academic programme in Engineering or Science (e.g. Physics, Mech. Eng., Electr. Eng.)
  • Applicants have to provide certified proof of their English language competence (e.g. TOEFL, see below)
  • Professional experience in the field of or related to (Renewable) Energy and/or Rural Development is appreciated; mandatory for DAAD applicants.

>>Click here for FAQ<<

For DAAD applicants: Please check the website of DAAD
Make sure to hand in all required documents that are listed on their website. Incomplete applications will not be considered in the selection process.

Selection

Applications will be discussed by a selection committee selecting DAAD scholarships after the first deadline and all other participants after the second deadline.
 

Application Deadlines (for study start in Winter Semester 2024)

  • 15 October, 2023 - one year before entry (for DAAD applicants)
  • 15 January, 2024 - 9 months before entry (for all self-financed / other scholarships)

Application is possible between August 15, 2023 and Jan 15, 2024 only.

The application page in uni-assist will be up from August 15th 2023, 00:00 CET.


How to apply

  • Applications are made through uni-assist (Please check our FAQs for questions related to uni-assist)
  • Applicants for both deadlines have to use uni-assist for online application. Below you can find a link to their website. There is no possibility to hand in a paper application.

Note: Applicants with a Bachelor Degree obtained in Germany cannot apply directly through uni assist. In this case, application is possible from 15 December 2023 until 15 January 2024 here: Application with a German Degree

Click here to be directed to uni-assist and to start your application:

DOCUMENTS NEEDED

You will have to prepare and scan the following documents for your application and upload (!) them as a pdf after registering and before the end of the deadline (DAAD: 15th October 2023 / self-financing: 15th January 2024); (note: zip-files are not accepted!)

  1. DAAD applicants: Please check the DAAD website for necessary documents
  2. Self-financing applicants: Financial statement – signed with current date (please see our FAQ for details)
  3. CV (please use the sample europass form at europa.eu/europass/en) with current date
  4. Letter of Motivation with current date (1 page/2000 characters maximum with reference to current occupation, fields of interest, outlook of career planned)
  5. Letter of recommendation from your current employer (if possible)
  6. Certificate(s) of Employment from employer(s) (if possible)
  7. Proof of English Language Proficiency: IELTS or TOEFL (Note: The institutional TOEFL is not accepted) or official statement from University that previous studies were conducted in English language. Native speakers of English are exempted.
  8. Copies of Academic Degrees (original document and additionally a certified translation if your certificate is neither in German nor English)
  9. Copies of Academic Transcripts incl. grading-scale (original document and certified translation if necessary)

Additionally: If you come from China, Vietnam or India, you also need to upload an APS certificate.

Please see our FAQ if you have any questions about the above documents. We cannot check your application for completeness, so please compare with the confirmation emails you will get after uploading if you handed in everything we asked for. If you are missing documents and do not provide an explanation, we will have to disqualify you without warning, unfortunately, due to the high number of applicants.

Prerequisites the student should bring along for the Master Programme SuRE

Besides technical knowledge of their degree, the participants of our program are expected to:

  • Have established a good work organization through their practical experiences, preferably in the field of renewable energies, sustainable development or energy technique,
  • Be able to familiarize themselves with a new topic autonomously (on a basic study level),
  • Structure newly given material and judge the importance of details,
  • Compare and judge facts out of different sources as well as compile information,
  • Estimate their skills and knowledge of an object and further their understanding through concrete questions,
  • Be dedicated to work with uncommon subjects,
  • Communicate clearly and fluently in English,
  • Work on interdisciplinary topics in a multicultural context
  • Willingness to share knowledge and work as a team
  • Be prepared to transcend common approaches of their previous subject.

We expect factual competences on a basic college level especially in the following subjects

  • Mathematics

    • Complex numbers
    • Vectors/ Vector calculating
    • Basic statistic knowledge
    • Integral and differential calculus
    • Differential equation/Differential operators
    • Fluently work with prefactors and (physical) units
    • Correctly build graphs out of value tables
  • Thermodynamics

    • First and second law of thermodynamics
    • Thermodynamic balance
    • Work and heat
    • Thermodynamic machines
    • Mechanisms of heat transfer 
  • Mechanics of fluids and gas

    • Movement conditions (laminar, turbulent)
    • Buoyancy and friction
    • Pressure, kinetic energy
    • Viscosity, flowline
    • Flow at boundary layers
  • Solid State Physics

    • Atom models
    • Crystal structures and lattice characteristics
    • Physical characteristics of all-solids (electrical and heat conductivity, shear forces)
    • Basic ideas of a semiconductor
  • Electricity

    • Ohm’s law
    • Kirchhoff’s laws
    • Electrical and magnetical fields
    • Inductance and mutual inductance
    • Complex resistance
  • Radiation

    • Radiation laws (Planck, Wien, Stefan-Boltzmann)
    • Black body
  • Atom models

    • Types of chemical bonds
    • Chemical reactions, Stoichiometry
    • Law of mass action
    • Displacement series of metals
  • Biology

    • Principals of photosynthesis
    • Basic structure of important organic substances: sugar, proteins, fat
    • Basic principals of the aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of organic material
  • Chemistry

    • Basic knowledge of stoichiometry
  • Measurement technique

    • SI units
    • Measurement processes and methods
    • Confidence level of measuring, measurement faults
    • Linear regression, error propagation

 

Fees / Expenses

Course Fee:

1500 €/semester

Inscription fee per semester

404,01 €/semester

Living Costs

934 €/month

Costs/services included in course fee are:

  • Support before starting your SuRE studies (Comm., accommodation, etc.)
  • Support during & after your SuRE studies
  • Industrial excursion in Germany
  • Field exercises
  • Tutorials, services in the course of the studies
  • Expenses of external lecturers
  • Laboratory materials consumed
  • Handouts, copies etc.
  • Literature specially acquired for SuRE quick reference collection
  • Running costs

The inscription fee of currently 404,01 EUR per term (329,01 € for DAAD-scholars, who do not need to pay administrative fee) is subject to slight increase each semester.

Costs/services included in inscription fee are:

  • Semesterticket, etc. ~202 Euros
  • Students Service ~98 Euros
  • Students Union ~23 Euros
  • Bike-repair-workshop ~3 Euros
  • Culture ticket ~3 Euros
  • Administration fee ~75 Euros

In addition, participants must pay for all their personal expenses. The cost of living amounts to 934 Euros per month (needs to be proven for stay permit).

 
 

Scholarships

We do not offer scholarships, but there is a large number of possible scholarship donors you can contact.

In the past, SuRE students have managed to receive scholarships from the following organisations, although chances of being accepted as scholar is varying drastically from organisation to another:
 

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Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Kennedyallee 50
53175 Bonn

Phone: +49-2 28-8 82-0
Fax: +49-2 28-8 82-4 44
Internet: www.daad.de
E-Mail:

 

Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Studienwerk
Roenthalerstraße 40/41
10178 Berlin
Phone: +49-30-2 85 34-4 00
Fax: +49-30-2 85 34-4 09
Internet: www.boell.de
E-Mail:
 

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Rathausallee 12
53757 Sankt Augustin
Phone: +49 22 41/24 6-0
Fax: +49 22 41/24 6-25 91
Internet: www.kas.de
E-Mail:
 

Katholischer Akademischer
Austausch Dienst (KAAD)

Hausdorffstraße 151
53129 Bonn
Phone: +49-2 28-9 17 58-0
Fax: +49-2 28-9 17 58-58
Internet: www.kaad.de
E-Mail:
 

Ökumenisches Studienwerk
Ökumenisches
Studienwerk e.V.

Girondelle 80
D - 44799 Bochum

 

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Education for Sustainable Energy Development (ESED)

Caroline Mei
Communications Coordinator

World Trade Centre Montreal 393 Saint-Jacques Street, Suite 258
Montreal, Quebec
H2Y 1N9 Canada

Phone: +49 234 938 8231
Fax: +49 234-938 8260
Internet: www.studienkolleg-
bochum.de

 

 

 

Phone: +1 (514) 392-5642
Fax: +1 (514) 392-8900
Internet: www.globalelectricity.org

 

The Global Study Awards

StudyPortals B.V.
Torenallee 45
5617BA Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Internet: http://www.mastersportal.eu/pages/the-global-study-awards/

 

Country-Related Scholarships:

 

Argentinia 

ALEARG scholarship from Argentinian Ministry of Education , coordinated by DAAD. 
link: http://www.daad.org.ar/es/22774/index.html.  

 

Chile

Becas Conicyt, coordinated by DAAD

Link: www.conicyt.cl/becas-conicyt/

Columbia

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COLFUTURO-Una fundación sin ánimo de lucro

Todos los derechos reservados.
Cra 15 No 37-15
Bogotá, Colombia

ECUADOR & Panama  

SENESCYT-Scholarship,coordinated by DAAD 

link:  international.unt.edu/senescyt-ecuadorean-students


Phone: +57 2872630
Internet: www.colfuturo.org
 

India

J N Tata Scholarhip

J.N. Tata Endowment, Administrative Office, Mulla House, 4th floor, 51, M.G. Road, Mumbai 400 001

Internet: website

E-Mail: ,

Iraq

Iraqi-German scholarship program for master and PhD students. This 
Scholarship program is funded by (the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and
Scientific Research (MoHESR) in Baghdad and DAAD), more information on 
this program found.


www.tabadul.de/scholarships/step-3/selection-442

Mexico

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CONACYT - Derechos Reservado

Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582
Col. Crédito Constructor Del. Benito Juárez C.P.
03940, México, D.F.
Phone: +55 5322-7700
Internet: website
E-Mail:
 

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FIDERH (Fund for the Development of Human Resources)

 Gante 21 Primer Piso Col.
Centro Del Cuauhtémoc C.P. 06000 México, D.F.

Phone: +52 (55) 53 45 47 92

Internet: www.fiderh.org.mx/

E-Mail:

Syria

"Leadership for Syria" Programme: Master’s and PhD Degree Scholarships for Syrians (DAAD)

The special scholarship programme “Leadership for Syria” (LfS) aims to support the academic qualification and advancement of young Syrian scientists in Germany. In times of civil war and displacement in their home country, this programme intends to give a sustainable contribution to build a future elite of leaders who will play a central role in rebuilding the country.

Venezuela

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FUNDAYACUCHO - Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation

 Internet: www.fgma.gov.ve

Uzbekistan

 

Islam Karimov Foundation

Phone: +99895 1980122
Email:

 


Pakistan

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High Education COmmission

Sector H-9
Islamaba

Phone: +92-51-9040000
Fax:

US

Fulbright-Kommission

Oranienburger Straße 13/14
10178 Berlin
Phone: +49 30-284443-0
Fax: +49 30 284443–42
Internet: www.fulbright.de
Email:
 
   

North America

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DAAD New York

871 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Phone: +01 212 758 3223
Fax: +01 212755 5780
Internet: www.daad.org
Email: daadny@daad.org
 
   
 

Useful Weblinks

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Other Links for Possible Scholarships

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Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

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Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung GmbH

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Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung

Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung

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BUND-Stiftung

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Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

 
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung

For other links please check the DAAD's scholarship database at

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