Call for Applications

We would like to inform you that the H. A. Bockmeyer Travel Scholarship will be awarded again next year at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. The H. A. Bockmeyer Travel Grant financially supports travel projects of students and alumni in the Fine Arts, Integrated Design and Digital Mediaprograms of the HfK Bremen.

Students and Alumnae not older than 30 years and with adequate transcripts of study records are eligible. In addition, for Alumnae, the graduation should not be older than 3 years.

 The amount of the travel grant is 3.000€.

 In addition to the monetary grant, which will be disbursed at the beginning of respective travels, the awardee will exhibit the artistic and/or design results of their travel project at the gallery of HfK Bremen.

• CV in regard to your artistic career, stating your Study Program and whether if you are still a student (please state your student id number) or already an Alumnae (please state the date of graduation) (as PDF)
• Description of proposed travel project (3000–4000 characters, 1 page max. as PDF)
• Portfolio of artistic work samples (texts/images as one PDF in total, other file formats for film and audio files are possible)
• If an application is submitted in English, please provide a summary/description of your proposed travel project in German (1000–1500 characters as PDF). If you feel that you would like to have support with this task, please reach out to Language Assistance who can help you with translating your project description into German (language_assistance@hfk-bremen.de).

Deadline: 17.2.2026

For any questions regarding the grant or application process, please contact me and Dr. Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh at bockmeyer-travelgrant@hfk-bremen.de.

The Deutschlandstipendium supports particularly high-achieving and committed students with 300 euros per month. The scholarship is usually announced in August and the application deadline is September 30th.