GTZ Scholarship Program for Master of Legum (LL.M.) in Germany:

"Sustainable Development needs rule of law"

Objective:
Since 2002 the Caucasus-initiative from the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) promotes border-crossing cooperation between the South Caucasian countries. Within this framework the German Development Cooperation (GTZ) supports the conjoint further qualification and networking of young jurists from the region by financing scholarships for LL.M-studies at a self-chosen university in Germany. Altogether GTZ sponsors up to nine scholarships, three each for Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports GTZ with the grant of the scholarships.

"Sustainable Development needs rule of law" - and rule of law needs young, good qualified jurists from the three South Caucasian countries who advocate the rule of law approach in their home countries.

A LL.M.-degree awarded from a German university offers young future executives in judiciary and administration the opportunity

- to obtain deeper insights in Civil Law traditions and rule of law
- to consolidate their knowledge in legal methodology as well as
- to develop their German language knowledge to fluency

and by this higher qualification further their professional career. The participating scholars of the LL.M.-program will build a cross-bordering professional network within the neighbouring South Caucasian countries and Germany. Therefore in the long term they are interesting cooperation partners for GTZ and its programs to promote legal and judiciary reforms. While introducing their new competences in their daily work the scholars play an important role in the advancing legal and judiciary reforms in their countries.

Participants:

The LL.M.-scholarship program "Sustainable Development needs rule of law" is addressed to jurists from judiciary and administration

" with a completed university degree in law
" who work at least for two years in a public institution
" aged between 24 and 35
" with an interest in German law
" and interest in an international degree,
" who already have German language knowledge (at least B2 level) or good English knowledge (for an LL.M. in English language).

The participants need to fulfill the prerequisites to admission of the chosen university (except the language certificate) for the LL.M.-studies. The scholarship includes also a language course from up to six months duration (partly in the home country, partly in Germany) which prepares the participants to the necessary language certificate.
In addition, GTZ supports the participants in advance to get a leave of absence from their employer for the period of study.
Interested?
If you are interested in a scholarship for this LL.M.-study and fulfill the prerequisites to admission of the chosen university, we kindly ask you to send us a cover letter and your CV (in German or English) to GTZ, Attn. Dorothea Sch?nfels, 30, Rustaveli Ave., 0146 Tbilisi, dorothea.schoenfels-von@gtz.de until February 5th, 2010.
We will forward your documents to the DAAD which takes care for your admission to the university.

All important information regarding the LL.M.-scholarship, universities, their prerequisites to admission, steps of the process, necessary forms, language courses etc. is available here:
www.gtz.de/law-caucasus

Further general information regarding studies in Germany you find here:
www.daad.de/international-programmes
DAAD-Informationszentrum Baku (http//:ic.daad.de/baku)
DAAD-Informationszentrum Eriwan (www.daad.am)
DAAD-Informationszentrum Tbilissi (http//:ic.daad.de/tbilissi)