In Honour of the Architect Gottfried Boehm

Postgraduate architects can still submit their applications for the second round of the Gottfried Böhm Scholarship until 31 May 2025. The scholarship holder is given the opportunity to spend a year developing a creative and visionary urban planning project for Cologne and the region. For this period, the scholarship holder will receive free accommodation, a workplace in a creative environment in the heart of the city and a monthly grant of 2,500 euros. The Gottfried Böhm Scholarship will start in October 2025 for a year. With this scholarship, the City of Cologne and its sponsors want to honour the Pritzker Prize winner, who died in 2021. Inspired by the work of Gottfried Böhm, the scholarship focuses on the interactions between architecture and urban planning. The initiator and patron is Cologne's Lord Mayor Henriette Reker. The scholarship is organized and supervised by the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Technischen Hochschule Köln e.V. (Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences).

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The results of the work produced as part of the Gottfried Böhm Scholarship will be presented at the end of the scholarship at a reception hosted by the Lord Mayor. The work will then be exhibited for a fortnight in the Spanish Building in Cologne and there will be an opportunity to publish the project in specialist publications to make it accessible to a wider public.

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Overview

Eligible Application

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Have completed a master's degree in architecture no later than May 31, 2025
• Be a non-employee, freelance architect or urban planner
• No longer be enrolled at any university during the period of the scholarship, with the exception of doctoral students
• Not have previously completed a postgraduate scholarship
• As a non-EU citizen, undertake to ensure that their residence permit does not preclude self-employment for the duration of their stay
• Not being in receipt of any other funding scholarship from the City of Cologne in the funding year
• Have language skills in German or English, either as a native speaker or with C1-language proficiency

What to submit

Submission until 31st May 2025, no later than 23:59.

• Personal data: Name, address, telephone number and e-mail address
• Proof of identity (identity card, passport document or passport substitute)
• Letter of motivation (obligatory, 1 page)
• Curriculum vitae (obligatory, max. 2 pages)
• Project proposal for a creative, experimental and visionary planning task on urban planning-architectural topics in the city of Cologne and its periphery (obligatory,
  max. 6 pages)
• Evidence of urban planning and architectural experience (optional, max. 6 pages)
• 1-3 letters of recommendation (optional)
• 1-3 scientific publications on your own work (optional)
• Your application file to upload, the file name should read:
  Name_First_Name_Residence_2025.pdf
• in German or English language

Further information on the scholarship can be found at the official website.