1990	1995	2002	2003	2004	2005
AA		84,1	118,4	123,1	120,3	118,3	116,91)
BMBF (before 1994 BMBW/BMFT)		26,4	38,4	76,3	75,5	60,5	64,9
BMZ		5,7	9,8	20,4	21,3	21,7	23,6
BMWA/ERP		2,0	0,6	1,1	1,2	1,1	1,1
Others Federal Government		0,1	0,1	0,6	0,4	0,3	0,5
Subtotal: Federal Government		118,3	167,3	225,9	218,7	201,9	207,0
Countries		1,3	0,7	0,9	0,7	0,6	0,6
EU2)		–	12,0	22,2	20,3	25,1	30,0
Others		15,0	7,3	11,9	11,5	9,9	10,2
Total		134,6	187,3	256,5	251,2	237,5	247,8

¹⁾Including the DAAD’s administrative budget of 20 million euros (personnel, materials and investments) euros.
²⁾ Including BIBB

In the year covered by this report, the total budget rose by € 10.3 million in comparison to the previous year. The increase can primarily be attributed to an increase in the contributions made by the BMBF ( € 4.4 million), the EU ( € 4.9 million) and the BMZ ( € 1.9 million). The increase in the contribution made by the BMBF was primarily due to the new special programme PROFIS. The increase in the EU contribution is partly only a result of bookkeeping formalities (delayed payments from the previous year), and partly due to the expansion of programmes, with the same applying to the increase in the BMZ contribution too (for example the Medical Programme). In contrast, the contribution made by the Federal Foreign Office fell by € 1.4 million, especially as a result of cuts to the funding for the Stability Pact Programmes for South Eastern Europe ( € 0.4 million) and for Afghanistan ( € 0.7 million).

The total DAAD budget of € 247.8 million does not take into account a number of financial sources related to the support work performed by the DAAD. This is especially true of the funds from the insurance office administrated at and by the DAAD in a fiduciary capacity ( € 1.8 million) and direct third-party funding of the exchange programmes: including salaries paid by foreign universities for DAADplaced lecturers and Lektors, reciprocal scholarships paid by foreign partners, cofinancing arrangements (matching funds) in the exchange of academics and researchers, and project-related personal funding, tuition fee waivers, etc. These third-party funds, which flow indirectly into the programmes but are not recorded in the DAAD budget, rose by € 1.6 million in the year covered by the report and are now estimated to amount to € 39.6 million.

Nor do the accounts record any of the indirect payments and services made by Germany’s universities and the federal states which fund and are responsible for these institutions. Without such the DAAD’s exchange programmes would be impossible. In fact, the financial contribution made by the universities and the states is comparable to that made by the federal government, when the costs of tuition-fee free study places for foreign grant recipients at German universities, of guidance, support and supervision provided by lecturers and academic staff, of sabbaticals and leaves of absence for academics and researchers, of the voluntary work done by the Selection Committee members, and the organisational assistance given by the university administrations – in particular by their international offices – are all taken into account.

As far as the “visible” budget of the DAAD is concerned, the lion’s share of the administrative costs and most programme expenditure is provided by the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt – AA) in its capacity as the DAAD’s institutional sponsor. Traditionally, these funds are primarily intended to fund foreigners on study and research visits to Germany ( € 56.1 million), projects and programmes in the field of academic and research cooperation, including the placement of German academics and researchers abroad ( € 15.0 million) and funding for Lektors placed on teaching assignments at universities abroad ( € 18.2 million). The DAAD again received additional funding for the Stability Pact Programmes for South Eastern Europe ( € 2.6 million) and for Afghanistan ( € 2.2 million). Funds were approved for the special Tsunami programme ( € 0.3 million) for the first time in the year covered by this report, with funding for this programme envisaged to continue in coming years.

The funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF are primarily intended to support German students and (post)graduates abroad ( € 25.8 million), bilateral university lecturer exchange, and programmes to promote the “Project-related Exchange of Academics” and “German Study Programmes Abroad” ( € 16.9 million), as well as the marketing and information programme ( € 7.5 million). In addition, funding also went to special programmes, including the model programme of “International Degree Programmes” ( € 1.2 million), which is coming to an end, PROFIS ( € 4.8 million) and the “Funding for the Continuing Development of Higher Education and Science” programme (PHD) ( € 6.1 million). The DAAD also runs a number of specific exchange and cooperation programmes on behalf of specialist departments within the BMBF.

The funds provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung – BMZ) serve to promote young and junior academics and researchers and to provide in-service training for experts and professionals from developing countries. Emphasis is placed on the “sur-place” third country scholarship programme, the postgraduate courses for professionals relating to developing countries offered at German universities, support for subject-specific university partnerships, the alumni programmes and the alumni summer school programme offered by German universities for their graduates from developing countries, as well as country-specific support for young and junior academics and researchers run with advanced developing countries.

The European Commission is the third largest source of funding, in particular with its mobility programme SOCRATES/ERASMUS, for which the DAAD acts as the national agency and distributes part-cost scholarships to German universities for German students and lecturers as well as funds for administrating mobility. The DAAD also receives European Commission funds via the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung – BIBB) to provide information, advice, evaluations and analyses, and to serve as the national coordination centre for the university/industry cooperation section in the EU programme LEONARDO DA VINCI II.

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie – BMWi) provides funding to the DAAD from special ERP funds (European Recovery Programme) to run a special programme aimed at promoting young students of economics and business administration from Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus.

In addition – again using ERP funds and funding from the KFW Banking Group (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau – KfW) – the DAAD awards part funding for individual projects involving German-American cooperation.

Sponsors and funding backer summarised under the heading “others” include: The Association for Technical Cooperation (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit – GTZ) (above all, for providing in-service training for academics and researchers from developing countries within the scope of GTZ projects in the field of development cooperation: € 0.3 million); foreign governments with various scholarship programmes ( € 2.8 million); the Dr. Mildred Scheel Foundation for Cancer Research (Dr. Mildred Scheel Stiftung für Krebsforschung) (in-service training and research grants for Germans: € 1.2 million). Approximately € 4.5 million come from revenue for programmes funded by various sponsors, such as Siemens AG, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, the Open Society Institute, the Leibniz Association, the Helmholtz Association, UNESCO, plus membership fees, the DAAD’s own income and other smaller sources of income.

Funds from the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft) are used to provide individual support on a “one-off” basis and as funding for pilot projects for which government funding is not (yet) available, such as for the so-called Emeriti Programme and for establishing professorial chairs at the Tongji University in Shanghai, as well as for infrastructure-building assistance to strengthen the DAAD’s self-governing structures. In total, the DAAD received funds amounting to € 1.4 million from the Donors’ Association in 2005.