Welcome to the DAAD Information Centre in Damascus

The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) in general works on bilateral scientific exchange. Unless it is a non-governmental organization representing German universities, it is fully funded by public financial means. The DAAD facilitates co-operation on university level, grants post-graduate scholarships and informs about Germany as a place for both undergraduate and postgraduate university studies.

Every year many students and professors receive scholarships from DAAD in order to complete their studies in Germany or take up research projects together with their German colleagues.

The DAAD assists German language teaching at universities of the hosting countries by sending lecturers and by developing curricula.

In September 2005 the DAAD established the Information Centre in Damascus which is responsible for both Syria and Lebanon and which answers the augmenting demand for information about Germany and its Institutes of Higher Studies.

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Dr. Eckehard Czucka is head of the DAAD Information Centre in Damascus and lecturer at the Damascus University since December, 1st, 2007. He taught in universities in Germany (finally  TU Braunschweig, till 2007) and in the Arab world (Cairo University 1989 - 1995). He attended in the last years several Guest Professorships in Cairo (Al Azhar University, Ain Shams University). To meet him in order to get more detailed information about studies in Germany and scholarships please call the office and fix an appointment.

His assistant, Suheir Sharkas, works in the office since its establishment in September 2005.She is ready to answer general questions about studying in Germany and about the DAAD exchange and scholarship programs.

Location

The DAAD Information Centre is located in the building of the German House in 26 Mahdi Ibn Barakeh Street, Abu Rumaneh, Damascus. Dr. Czucka is regularly visiting Beirut and offering, in close cooperation with Mr. Martin Lampprecht, information sessions in the Goethe Institute Beirut. Please see NEWS in Lebanon to know when he is in Beirut.

Partners:
Goethe Institute in Damascus and Beirut. For further information about their cultural programs  and their language teaching programs see their websites (Links)

German Embassy in Damascus and Beirut. All information about entry visas to Germany are available at the respective offices, please see their websites (Links)