Deutscher Bundestag 2023 International Parliamentary Scholarship Programme for African Countries

Since 2020, the German Bundestag has been offering a scholarship program for politically committed young university graduates from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana who are interested in the German parliamentary system and who actively support basic democratic values ??in their home countries. In a four-week compact program, eight fellows can get to know the German parliamentary system and political decision-making processes in the German Bundestag up close. The program will take place in Berlin. The core of the program is a one-week internship in the office of a member of the German Bundestag. The focus is also on events on the German parliamentary system as well as lectures, workshops and seminars, among other things, on parliamentary democracy, the way parliament works and its function. In addition, the topics of pluralism, protection of minorities and culture of remembrance are conveyed as a political mandate. A workshop on project management should help to develop your own project ideas with the aim of promoting democracy and civil society in the respective countries of origin.