In addition to taking care of material needs, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation is strongly interested in seeing to it that fellowship holders receive individual assistance and advice. The Foundation is supported in this effort by a group of more than 300 professors at various universities in the Federal Republic. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation offers its fellowships recipicients a wide-ranging program of discussions and informative meetings. The aim is to create a situation in which German and foreign fellowship holders can meet and engage in a political and interdisciplinary exchange of views. These occasions are also used to give fellowship holders an opportunity to meet prominent persons in the Federal Republic.
All fellowships are to be awarded directly to individual persons.