ZEF Alumni Network

If you want to access the website of the ZEF Alumni Network

http://www.zef.de/alumni/ please click here.

(for ZEF alumni only, access by the previous intranet login and password)

Other Alumni Networks:

Alumni Network of the University Bonn: www.alumni.uni-bonn.de

For DAAD alumni: http://www.daad.de/alumni/en/index.html

Alumniportal Deutschland (APD): www.alumniportal-deutschland.org

Surveys of ZEF alumni careers

Regular surveys among the alumni show that the Bonn Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Development Research (BiGS-DR) is achieving its main goal: that of educating future decisionmakers from developing countries as well as German and European scientists for an international career. By June 2009, 203 doctoral students have graduated in the BiGS-DR since its interception in 1999. A survey of their career progression showed that 70% of the graduates from developing and transition countries returned to their home countries to take up positions in the fields of research, teaching, administration, and governments. Nine percent of the alumni found jobs in international organizations like the World Bank, CGIAR centers or the United Nations Organizations, whereas 2% found postdoc positions in a development related context, in Germany. Fifteen percent found a job in another OECD country.

The monitoring of the careers of former German participants also confirms the success of the BiGS-DR concept: immediately after completing their theses, most of them took up positions in national or international organizations in a development related context, in German ministries or in developing countries.

The current main sponsors of the IDSP are the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (MIWFT), Robert Bosch Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and many other donors.

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