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The German Bundestag invites you to apply for its new International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) programme for the Arab countries and spend four weeks in Berlin in autumn 2012.
The German Bundestag is launching its first-ever International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) programme for graduates with an interest in politics from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
The programme is intended for talented people who are keen to play an active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries. The German Bundestag is offering them the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the German parliamentary system and political decision-making processes.
The aim of the programme is to support democracy-building in the Arab world.
The programme is likely to last for four weeks and will begin on 8 September 2012.
Participants will receive €450 per month. The Bundestag will also cover the costs of health, accident and personal liability insurance, administrative fees and social insurance contributions. Accommodation will be provided free of charge. The costs of travel to and from Berlin will be refunded.
The programme is open to well-qualified and highly motivated women and men who are open to new ideas, interested in politics, and wish to play an active and responsible role in shaping the democratic future of their country.
Applicants will be invited to attend an interview at a German embassy in the Arab region, where an independent selection panel set up by the German Bundestag will choose the successful candidates based on their professional, social, language and intercultural skills. A proportion of the costs of travel to the interview will be reimbursed.
And the following documents, to be completed in German:
1 The application form and personality questionnaire are available from the German embassy or mission in candidates’ home countries or can be downloaded at: www.bundestag.de/ips
2 This means that the copy is officially certified as a true copy of the original by a recognised authority (a German or foreign public authority, an embassy or consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, a university, notary, or translator/interpreter registered with the public authorities). The copy must be certified as a true copy, signed and stamped by the relevant person/institution. If several photocopies are stapled together, each individual copy must be certified in this way. Unless documents are properly certified, the application cannot be processed.
30 April 2012
(Date of postmark)
Please send your completed application documents to:
Deutscher Bundestag / German Bundestag
Referat WI 4 / Division WI 4
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin
Germany
Alternatively, you can email your application to: ips@bundestag.de.
This IPS programme is coordinated at parliamentary level by the Rapporteur Group on International Exchange Programmes (Rapporteur: Wolfgang Börnsen, MdB) established by the German Bundestag’s Commission of the Council of Elders on Internal Affairs (Chair: Vice-President Eduard Oswald, MdB).