Application

Questions about PPRE/EMRE and application procedure

Sandra Schwerz
Application and Administration Support

+49 (0)441-798 3544

Programme Coordinator

Edu Knagge

+49-441-798-3544

Mon - Thu

PPRE/EMRE (Core Oldenburg)

Dr. Herena Torio
Programme Manager

+49 (0)441-798-3546

Director

Prof. Dr. Carsten Agert

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

Application

Special DAAD-scholarship available for applicants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan

The DAAD has launched its new scholarship programme "Leadership for Africa" with funding from the German Foreign Office. The programme supports 55 master's degrees at German universities, with the exception of the subjects of human, veterinary and dental medicine, as well as law, art, music and architecture.

Application can be submitted between 27 August and 16 October, 2020. Start of the scholarship is the German winter term 2021/22.

For more information, please take a look at the following website: https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/what-we-do/sustainable-development/funding-programmes/funding-programmes-for-students-a-z/leadership-for-africa/

How to Apply for PPRE

Requirements

Applicants must have successfully completed a regular academic programme in Engineering or Science (e.g. Physics, Mech. Eng., Electr. Eng.)
Your final grade has to equal at least a Second Upper; most of our students graduated from their previous studies in the First Division.
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<<

Selection

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

Deadlines

15 October, 2020 of the year before entry (for DAAD applicants)

15 January, 2021 - 9 months before entry
(for all self-financed / other scholarships)

Application is possible between August 15, 2020 and Jan 15, 2021 only.

Please make sure you have Flash installed and that your browser supports Javascript (scripts have to be allowed!) and https/ssl encryption. The application website will be up from August 15th 2020, 00:00 CET.

How to apply

Applicants for both deadlines have to use the button "Apply now" for online application. This button will be available on our website as from August 15. There is no possibility to hand in a paper application.

DAAD applicants are strongly advised to check www.daad.de for requirements and documents the DAAD asks for.

DOCUMENTS NEEDED

You will have to prepare and scan the following documents for your application and upload (!) them after registering and before the end of the deadline (DAAD: 15^th October 2020 / self-financing: 15^th January 2021); preferred in jpg format; pdf is also ok - but please note: zip-files are not accepted!:

Copies of Academic Degrees (certified translation necessary if your certificate is neither in German nor English)
Copies of Academic Transcripts incl. grading-scale (certified translation if necessary)
Personally signed CV (please use the sample europass form at http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/) with current date
Personally signed Letter of Motivation with current date (two pages maximum with reference to current occupation, fields of interest, outlook of career planned)*
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.
Letter of recommendation from your current employer (if applicable)**
Certificate(s) of Employment from employer(s)***
DAAD application form – signed and with current date (for DAAD-applicants only)****
Financial statement – signed with current date (self-financing applicants only; please see our FAQ for details)

Only for DAAD-applications:

*When applying for more than one postgraduate course - maximum 3 courses - you have to submit one letter of motivation explaining why you are applying for these specific courses and why you chose that priority
**Letter of recommendation from your current employer is necessary and needs to have letterhead, signature and official stamp and must be of current date
*** proof of minimum of two years of relevant working experience (after the bachelor degree) at the time of application and if possible, a guarantee of re-employment from your current employer upon returning home
****DAAD application available at: (www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/forschungsstipendium_en.pdf)

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 PPRE

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 Fees	1000 €/semester
Inscription fees per semester	415,41 €/semester
Final Excursion (Summer Term)	500 €
Living Costs	853 €/month

Costs/services included in course fee are:

Support before starting your PPRE studies (Comm., accommodation, etc.)
Support during & after your PPRE 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 PPRE quick reference collection
Running costs

The inscription fee of currently 415,41 EUR per term (340,41 € 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. ~234 Euros
Students Service (Mensa, Dormitories, etc.) ~78 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 853 Euros per month (needs to be proven for stay permit).

During the summer semester (second semester), there is a mandatory excursion of up to 10 days (off-grid mountain hut, Intersolar/Munich, several RE companies and research institutes, respectively). Students are asked to allow an extra sum of max. 500 EUR for this event.

Scholarships

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

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

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Kennedyallee 50 53175 Bonn	Phone: +49-2 28-8 82-0 Fax: +49-2 28-8 82-4 44 Internet: http://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: http.//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: http://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: http://www.kaad.de E-Mail:

Ökumenisches Studienwerk e.V. Girondelle 80 D - 44799 Bochum 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: http://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: http://www.conicyt.cl/becas-conicyt/

Columbia

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: https://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

CONACYT - Derechos Reservado

Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582
Col. Crédito Constructor Del. Benito Juárez C.P.
03940, México, D.F.

Phone: +55 5322-7700
Internet: www.conacyt.mx
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: http://www.fiderh.org.mx/english.html

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.