Support for students in demanding life situations
The Kassel Stipendium is a support programme offered by the Studierendenwerk Kassel and has been awarded since the winter semester 2023/24 to students at the University of Kassel who are successfully completing their studies inspite of especially demanding life situations.
In the third funding year 2025/26, we want to support again students with a migration or refugee background whose parents did not attend university in Germany with the Kassel Stipendium.
The support is both financial and non-material. The aim is to support young people who, despite difficult circumstances, demonstrate exceptional performance in their studies and demonstrate not only academic but also social skills.
In addition to the monthly financial support of 200 euros each, the scholarships also serve to bring the students into contact with the regional economy, to participate in events as part of a scholarship network, to offer them educational programmes on topics relevant to them personally and to network them.
The Studierendenwerk Kassel is thus following the example of a very successful nationwide programme: the "Hamburg Stipendium" of the Studierendenwerk Hamburg.
The Kassel Stipendium depends on scholarship holders taking part in meetings and activities.
The application period for the funding year 2025/2026 ended on June 6, 2025. Unfortunately, we can no longer accept applications.
Your company would like to support the Kassel Stipendium scholarship program?
Please contact us via kassel-stipendium((at))studierendenwerk.uni-kassel.de
We are looking forward to your e-mail!
Scholarships 2025/2026
The scholarship recipients 2025/2026 in the back row (from left): Nam Cao, Ebony Schneeweiß, Yuying Lin, Aina Noori, Bisen Teklesembet, and Bashar Khoulani. Front row, from left: Jehona Imeri, Nhung Bui, Ming Zhu, Ramek Jehanbazi, Ragad Allaham, Sarea Ashour, Jana Gisick, and Pia Manigé Dolcke with Marilena Koch, Jens Thumser, and Stefanie Schmidt (back row, third, seventh, and eighth from right) from Dr. Schumacher GmbH, as well as Anna Iwanoff (Communications Volkswagen AG, back row, sixth from right), Hildegard Weirich from the Hübner und Kennedy gGmbH Foundation (back row, fifth from right), from the Offen für Vielfalt e.V. initiative Michael Sasse (front row, second from right) and Johanna Kindler (back row, fourth from right). Also on the jury for the Kassel Scholarship were Sarah Guttenhöfer, deputy head of the International Office at the University of Kassel (back row, far left), next to her Julia Thonfeld (head of Advisory Services & Student Financing and deputy managing director of the Kassel Studierendenwerk), and in the back row, far right, Annika Höhn (administrative assistant for the Kassel Scholarship). Also present was Studierendenwerk Managing Director Christa Ambrosius (back row, fifth from left).
Scholarships 2024/2025
Scholarship award ceremony: Scholarship holders of the 2024/2025 class with Hakan Kilinç (back left) from Team Kassel Scholarship, Friederike Steensen (back, second from right) from the Wintershall Dea Stiftung für Demokratie und Vielfalt (Wintershall Dea Foundation for Democracy and Diversity), next to Julia Thonfeld and in front Petra Umbach, both from Team Kassel Scholarship.
