The Bundestag of Germany offers Moldovan university graduates scholarships that enable to gain first-hand experience of Germany’s system of parliamentary government. The participants will work in a German Bundestag Member’s office and will be enrolled at one of the Berlin universities, IPN reports, quoting the Parliament’s press service.

The 2016 International Parliamentary Scholarship program of the German Bundestag will take place between March 1 and July 31, 2016. The selected young people will receive a monthly scholarship of €500. The program is open to young people born after March 1, 1986 who are proficient in German.

The applicants must submit the following documents in the German language: completed application form; letter of intent; diploma of studies (original or copy legalized and scanned, in German or English); two letters of recommendation in German or English; a photo for documents in electronic format; copy of the travel passport or of the ID number. They must have very good knowledge of German, corresponding to level B of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages.

The applications and all the other documents must be sent to the email address info@chisinau.diplo.de by June 30. Detailed information about the program, the eligibility criteria and the application and selection procedures are available on the German Bundestag’s website http://www.bundestag.de/ips.

Questions can be also put to the person in charge of the German Embassy in Moldova Polina Ojog on 022 200 600, pr-100@chis.diplo.de.