The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar awards Bauhaus Scholarships to outstanding students who can be expected to have above average performance as well as special aptitude for an area of knowledge and an equally outstanding final project.
Who is eligible to apply?
Students from all faculties of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar who will complete their studies within 12 months.
What is funded?
- A prerequisite for funding is that the independently developed final projects require a special and justified financial burden, for example project-related expenses for experimental or artistic final theses.
- The final projects are also assessed for their feasibility and prospects of success, for their relevance and, if applicable, with regard to their interdisciplinary or international orientation and the consideration of environmental aspects and sustainability.
- Social aspects, biographical hurdles and the individual potential of the students in their current life situation can be taken into account in the awarding process.
How is funding awarded?
- Number of scholarships: up to 6 final scholarships in the funding year
- Amount of funding: 450 euros x 3 months
- The start of the scholarship can be freely chosen in the funding year. As a rule, funding is provided in the form of a 3-month scholarship. In justified exceptional cases only, a single payment of the total funding amount can also be arranged.
Dates for your applications
The call for applications for the funding year (04/2024 - 03/2025) will take place on two dates:
31 January 2024 | Call for Proposals 1, start date for scholarships from April 2024
31 August 2024 | Call for Proposals 2, start date for scholarships from Sept./Oct. 2024
Scholarships 2025/26
The application deadlines will be 15 of January and 31 August 2024.
The general rules are:
- Applications will only be considered if they are complete and submitted before the application deadline.
- Applicants can apply in parallel for a maximum of two scholarship formats at the
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar at the same time. - An application can not be considered without a letter of recommendation.
- There is no legal entitlement to the award of a scholarship.
Procedure
- The first application deadline ends on 15th of January 2025.
- The scholarship commission usually decides in March.
- The scholarships usually start in April.
Funding requirements
FURTHER FUNDING / SECONDARY ACTIVITIES
- A Bauhaus Graduation Scholarship may not be awarded to candidates who are already receiving public funding.
- Scholarship holders are only allowed to work according to the relevant regulations of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (MdU 30/2022 in German; may not exceed the respective applicable limit for "geringfügige Beschäftigungen/marginal employment)
PROJECT COMPLETION / REPORTING OBLIGATION
- Funding recipients are expected to submit a copy of their final transcript and written thesis.
- For artistic or design projects: should the type and format of the work permit, an obligatory copy of the project is to be submitted to the university library.
Application documents
Please use the online application form with file upload for your application documents:
- language: German or English
- 1 PDF document (1 file incl. all attachments, please include name in file name).
- file size max. 15 MB
- not password-protected
Please include the following documents in the order shown below:
- Letter of motivation (max. 2 pages, if applicable: give reasons for the special costs and expenses)
- Brief exposé of your final project (max. 3 pages + if applicable: pictures, visualisation)
- timetable/work schedule
- Curriculum vitae (CV)
- Proof of above-average achievement in your course of study
a) overview of grades incl. grade point average at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (e.g. BISON print out or in form of a performance report by your faculty’s examination office)
b) previous certificates, if available (e.g. Bachelor's certificate) - if applicable: an explanation of special personal circumstances and biographical hurdles such as caring for a child or relative, a disability or chronic illness, your parents' (educational) background, migration background, experience of discrimination, etc.
(Please enclose proof or have it ready for inquiries by the Commission)
PLEASE NOTE – separate submission by the professor:
7. letter of recommendation
For better comparability, please use the “Letter of Recommendation Form” (pdf, 2020).
Please submit the letter separately as a pdf file via the respective professor by 31 January or 31 August 2024 to stipendien[at]uni-weimar.de
Selection process
The Scholarship Commission of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will select the scholarship recipients
- in the end of February 2024 on the awarding of the first application round.
- in September 2024 on the applications for the second call for applications.
The projects are evaluated regarding to their feasibility and prospects of success, their significance and, if applicable, their interdisciplinary or international orientation. Social aspects, biographical hurdles and the individual potential of the students in their current circumstances can be taken into account.
- Attempts to deceive by applicants will lead to immediate exclusion from the application process. A further application is not possible in this case.
- Decisions of the committee will not be justified towards the applicants due to the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure.
The awarding is subject to the availability of funds in the funding year 2024/25. The number of the up to 6 scholarships announced may be adapted accordingly.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk
Chair of the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Vicce President for Projects and Research
Find out more about the projects in the scholarship online gallery:
Kira Becker
»Wolllage - Potentiale in der Verarbeitung regionaler Schafswolle«
Lilo Nöske, Lennart Weski & Zeno Schnelle
»Auf der Suche nach der Zukunft«
Paula Holzhauer, Pauline Bönisch & Joel Schülin
»Protokoll M - Vom Phänomen der Montagsspaziergänge in Weimar«
The awarding of the scholarships in round 2 will take place in September 2023.
Marah Doleh, MediaArchitecture (Master)
»emot;ON«
Elfi Handina Murandu, Visuelle Kommunikation (Bachelor)
»The Politics of Hair«
Julia Huhnholz & Friedrich Gerlach, Produktdesign (Bachelor)
»The Essence of Biocement«
Nora Iannone & Marie Heyer, Architektur (Master)
»Materialgeschichten«
Isabella Lee Arturo, Media Art and Design (Master)
»Tabula Rasa«
Beatriz Oria Lombardía, Produktdesign (Master)
»(non-)local lab. Exploring the Problematic and Potential of Invasive Plant Species in Thuringia through Design«
More about the projects in the scholarship gallery 2022.
Minhee Ahn, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
»REPRESENT! Election campaign for social integration by a non-citizen candidate«
Xenia Gorodnia, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
Animadok: »Marcel und Suse«
Lisa Maßel & Lia Zinngrebe, Architektur (Master)
»HerCity Weimar«
Antonia Ney, Produktdesign (Bachelor)
»Realutopie: FREI_PARK_RAUM«
Dominik Reisach, Architektur (Master)
»Circular Timber: A Design for Reassembly Approach for a Discrete Aggregation of Reclaimed Timber Elements«
Lara Schuster, Architektur (Master)
»(Cautionary) Tales of Disappearing Offices«
Learn more about the projects in the scholarship gallery 2021.
Grayson Bailey, MediaArchitecture (Master)
»adiscourse.net«
Ahmad Hafez, MediaArchitecture (Master)
»Shape-Shifting Space«
Paula Holzhauer, Visuelle Kommunikation (Bachelor)
»Marquisette«
Doreen Smolensky, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Klang Schwindender Masse«
Jakob Wirth, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
»Penthaus à la Parasit«
Tobias Zimmer, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Identical Walk«
Alan Hatlapa, Nachhaltige Produktkulturen (Master)
»Designing Alchemy 2«
Lara Lütke, Produktdesign (Bachelor)
»Imperfections«
Franziska Mußmächer, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Klub der Kleinkarierten«
Sophie Weber, Architektur (Master)
»Hudson Valley Ecologies«
Jasmine Grace Wenzel, Medienwissenschaft (Bachelor)
»Eco-lonizing Space. Über Ökologiediskurse und expansive Raumanordnung
am Beispiel von Smart Cities und Seasteading«
Jakob Wolters, Architektur (Master)
»Südseite Gauforum, Nordseite Friedensstraße: Eine architektonisch-bauliche Intervention für eine Ausstellung zum Quartier Weimarer Moderne.«
Diana Decker
Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Auf der Suche nach der guten Form – Formgestaltung in Weimar (1946-1960)«
Eric Geißler
Produktdesign (Bachelor)
»Virtuositätsverstärker«
Leef Hansen
Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Remember Everything«
Julia Heiser
Urbanistik (Master)
»Außenraumplanung von Schulen - konzeptionelle Ansätze für eine kinderfreundliche Landschaftsarchitektur inm Schulbau«
Marie Klinger
Medienwissenschaft (Bachelor)
»Endless temporary situations. Effekte des langen Wartens Geflüchteter in Athen«
Katharina Wittke
Architektur (Master)
»Wohnen in der Agrar- und Energielandschaft - Architektur als Vermittler«
Larissa Kurt (geb. Knufmann)
Produktdesign (Bachelor)
»Craft Empowerment Tool«
Muriel McCalla
Visuelle Kommunikation/ Visuelle Kulturen (Master)
»Implemented Social Design – Making Social Design Work in Society, Economy and Reality«
Tillmann Ohm
Freie Kunst (Diplom)
»The Artist's Machine Is Present«
Samuel Solazzo
Visuelle Kommunikation (Bachelor)
Großvater Migration
Nikita Verma
European Urban Studies (Master)
»Urban Strategies for Development of Hill Town in Indian Himalayas- case study Almora«
Laura Ziegler
Urbanistik (Master)
»Personalisierte Städterankings - ein neues Vorgehen?«
2016
Paul Böttcher, Urbanistik (Bachelor)
»Über den Dächern der Welt - Entwicklungspolitische Projekte auf dem Prüfstand«
Vanessa Brazeau, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
»Thesis Body: High-Performance Performance.«
Wanda Gaertner, Nachhaltige Produktkulturen (Master)
»Eltern- und kindgerechte Gestaltung im intensivmedizinischen Bereich«
Lisa Pusch, MediaArchitecture (Master)
»On Memory: Body, Devices and Material«
Daniel Pelaez, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
»Guides of Nepal«
Michael Paul Romstöck, Visuelle Kommunikation (Bachelor)
»USAG Schweinfurt«
2015
Lukas Beck, Visuelle Kommunikation (Bachelor)
Project: Connecting Veloculture / supervised byProf. Jay Rutherford
Riccarda Cappeller, Architektur (Master)
Project: ZusammenLeben im Typus Stadt / supervised by Jun.-Prof. Ines Weizman
Mascha Fischer, Visuelle Kommunikation (Diplom)
Project: Ein Leben (Ausstellung) / supervised by Prof. Liz Bachhuber
Jibran Khan, Media Art and Design (Master)
Project: Die Geschichte der zwei Monde (Film) / supervised by Jun.-Prof. Jörn Hintzer
Melisa Palacio Lopez, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
Project: „S P E K T R U M“ [Performance/Video/Sound/Tanz] / supervised by Prof. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg
Frederike Rode, Urbanistik (Bachelor)
Project: "Affordable Housing" in Richmond. Aktuelle nationale Förderprogramme und ihre Umsetzung auf lokaler Ebene / supervised by Prof. Barbara Schönig
2014
Josephine Bauer, Freie Kunst (Diplom)
Project: Körperbehaarung und Heilung (graphic arts)
Valentine Jerke, Kulturwissenschaftliche Medienforschung (Master)
Project: Pilgerboom oder Supermarkt des Religiösen
Saori Kaneko / Richard Welz, Freie Kunst (Diplom)
Projekc: made by us (exhibition)
Cilia Lichtenberg, Urbanistik (Master)
Project: Wohnungs(markt)politik in Leipzig. Alternative Instrumente und Maßnahmen für eine ‚soziale‘ Wohnraumversorgung
Justus Preyer, Architektur (Bachelor)
Project: Archipel Wuppertal-Elberfeld, von Platz zu Platz
Qianqian Zhang (together with Jingjing Lu), Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
Project: "to live" (animated film)
2013
Martin Ahner, Architektur (Diplom)
Projekt: Das Haus des Misanthropen
Alexander Döpel, Visuelle Kommunikation / Visuelle Kulturen (Master)
Projekt: MODERN GENEALOGY. Der moderne Stammbaum.
Sujin Lim, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
Projekt: „Reversing the Fall of 2012“ in Gumi/South Korea
2012
Maxie Götze, Visuelle Kommunikation (Diplom)
Projekt: „Ein Raum für die Klangkunst“
Patrick Richter, Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (B.F.A.)
Projekt: “Marie Marionette / Neununddreißig«
Martin Schotten, Visuelle Kommunikation (Diplom)
Projekt: “Für”
2011
Martin Schuster
Projekt: "Brand Heritage Design"
Anke Trojan
Projekt: "Am Ende einer Mission - Das Haus der Weissen Väter", Dokumentarfilm
Robert Verch
Projekt: "Auf Eis gedruckte Bilder"