Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG)

BAföG funds one to two semesters of study (max. twelve calendar months) abroad, both within and outside Europe. Mandatory practical/internship semesters are funded within Europe. Funding outside Europe is only possible if the study and examination regulations require the practical semester to take place outside Europe. If the funding conditions are met:

• you have already decided on a university abroad
• you have good language skills in the language of instruction at the host university (the national language, or in many cases also English)
• you are willing to acquire at least basic knowledge of the national language
• the study program is comparable in content and level to the study program at the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
• at the time you begin your studies abroad, you have not yet exceeded the maximum funding period

there is also a legal entitlement to funding for studying abroad under BAföG!

Depending on your host country, you must submit your Auslands-BAföG (BAföG for studying abroad) application to the BAföG office responsible for that country. Different central foreign offices in Germany are responsible for foreign funding under BAföG depending on the destination country — for both university students and school pupils.

Find out online about all the details and which city houses the Auslands-BAföG office responsible for you: https://www.bafög.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/bafoeg/weltkarte/weltkarte_europa_formular.html