In practically every corner of the world, DAAD employees share their expertise and ensure that international experience from many different perspectives is channelled into their projects.
The DAAD relies on a network of Regional Offices, Information Centres and Information Points with coverage for more than 70 countries, approximately 408 Lectureships and 81 ‘Langzeitdozenturen’ und ʻGerman Studies Dozenturen’, 20 Centres of German and European Studies, 32 German-language degree programmes in Central and Eastern Europe, a diverse range of DAAD-funded university projects abroad, ranging from individual courses to establishing new universities, and a pool of 430,000 alumni. It is this network which provides the DAAD with a comprehensive view of the political, economic, social and higher-educational circumstances in each respective country.