The German Bundestag invites politically and socially engaged young university graduates from southern Africa (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) and West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal) to a scholarship program in Berlin in January.
In a four-week intensive program, up to 24 scholarship recipients from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda get to know German parliamentary democracy and the political decision-making processes in the German Bundestag up close.
The core of the program is a one-week internship in the office of a member of the German Bundestag. This is preceded by a condensed preparatory course providing knowledge about parliamentary democracy and the workings and function of parliament. Furthermore, the topics of pluralistic society, minority protection, and the culture of remembrance as a political mandate are addressed.