Scholarships

Our scholarships for students. Your focus on the essentials.

With our scholarships, we want to encourage and support committed people along their path into the future. Financial support is a critical first step. In addition, it is also important for us to provide our scholarship holders with special professional support.

For this reason, our scholarships always include a practice-oriented component. In this way you, as a scholarship holder, can gain valuable experience and specialist knowledge for your studies and entry into your future career.

The Ferdinand-von-Lochow scholarship

Ferdinand von Lochow was a pioneer in plant breeding; he was unconventional, creative and entrepreneurial. The idea behind this scholarship is to pass his values on to the pioneers of tomorrow. We offer the Ferdinand von Lochow scholarship at three locations:

Osnabrück

The Ferdinand-von-Lochow scholarship at the University of Osnabrück.

You are:

A Bachelor’s student (from the 2nd academic year) of BLW/BAH [B.Sc. Agriculture/B.Eng. Industrial Engineering in Agribusiness and Hortibusiness]
A Master’s student on the MAL programme with a focus on plants/economics

We offer:

A scholarship of €500 per month over 12 months (scholarship can be obtained in addition to BAFöG [German Federal Training and Assistance Act] or other funding)
2.5-month traineeship at a KWS Cereals location, preferably abroad
Period of funding: October 2016 to September 2017

Application:
Contact person: Prof. Dr H.-W. Olfs,
University of Osnabrück,
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture,
Am Krümpel 31,
D-49090 Osnabrück

Documents by end of July 2018 to: h-w.olfs@hs-osnabrueck.de
Further information on the application procedure and tender documents at https://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/en/

Halle-Wittenberg

The Ferdinand-von-Lochow scholarship at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

You are:

A Master’s student in your 2nd year of study in the fields of crop plants and agricultural sciences, breeding and agrigenomics or business administration (also Bachelor’s students)

We offer:

Scholarship of €500 per month over 12 months (can be obtained in addition to BAFöG [German Federal Training Assistance Act] or other funding)
2.5-month traineeship at a KWS Cereals location, preferably abroad
Support in finding a topic for your master’s thesis
Period of funding: October 2018 to September 2019

Application:
Contact person: Prof. Dr Klaus Pillen Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
Betty-Heimann-Str. 3, 06120 Halle/Saale

Documents until the end of July 2018 to klaus.pillen@landw.uni-halle.de. Further information about the application modalities and tender documents at http://www.sciencecampus-halle.de/index.php/homepage.html

Hohenheim

The Ferdinand-von-Lochow scholarship at the University of Hohenheim

You are:
A Master’s student in your 2nd Academic year in the fields of agriculture (Plants and Economics) and breeding

We offer:

Scholarship of €500 per month over 12 months (can be obtained in addition to BAFöG [German Federal Training Assistance Act] or other funding)
2.5-month traineeship at a KWS Cereals location, preferably abroad
Support in finding a topic for your master’s thesis
Period of funding: October 2017 to September 2018

Application:
Contact person: Margit Lieb
University of Hohenheim,
Fruwirthstr. 21,
70599 Stuttgart

Documents by the end of July 2018 to margit-lieb@uni-hohenheim.de
Further information about the application modalities and tender documents under https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/awards-scholarships

People at KWS

The financial support from KWS is a fantastic thing. But the valuable practical experience I can accumulate here is priceless.

Julius Meine, Ferdinand-von-Lochow fellow 2017

Scholarship for Germany

Since 2011, KWS awards a scholarship for Germany at the Georg-August University, Göttingen, and since 2016, also at the private Fachhochschule Göttingen. This scholarship programme supports students who demonstrate both convincing academic achievements and social commitment. This approach fits perfectly with KWS, because we are convinced that time needs to be allowed for activities and commitments in personal, as well as professional life.

You are:
- a student in Agricultural Sciences and Business Administration
- successful in studies
- socially active (sports club, fire brigade etc.)

We offer:
- a scholarship of €300 per month for 12 months
(€150 from KWS, €150 from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
- Participation in four workshops, which provide an insight into the work at KWS and the world of the profession

Learn more about the Scholarship for Germany at the Georg-August university, Göttingen
See: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/218535.html