Lobby organisation
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Think tank or academic body · Think tanks & research · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst appears in 12 declared MEP meetings (8 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“The DAAD is the world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers. Since it was founded in 1925, the DAAD has supported more than 2.9 million academics in Germany and abroad. It is a registered association and its members are German institutions of higher education and student bodies. Its activities go beyond awarding grants and scholarships.”
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“The DAAD supports the internationalisation of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, assists mutiple countries in establishing universities and advises decision makers on matters of cultural, education and development policy. Since 1987 the DAAD has been acting as the National Agency for the former ERASMUS programme in Germany and also as the contact point for various EU higher education programmes, such asTempus and Erasmus Mundus. Today, the National Agency at DAAD is dealing with the entire higher education part of the Erasmus+ progamme.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 12 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2022–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (6 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 12 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | Catarina Vieira | Myanmar students from the EU Funded EU Mobility Programme for Myanmar (EMPM) and Michael Hörig, Director of the DAAD Brussels Office |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Daniel Freund | Erasmus+ |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Daniel Freund | Erasmus+ |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Daniel Freund | Erasmus |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski | Stakeholder dialogue on establishing the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028-2034 |
| 9 Jan 2026 | Christian Ehler | FP10 |
| 13 Oct 2025 | Sabrina Repp | Erasmus+ |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Manuela Ripa | Erasmus+ |
| 15 Oct 2024 | Niels Geuking | Hochschulbildungs- und Forschungsraum |
| 10 Sep 2024 | Sabrina Repp | Erasmus + Programm |
| 9 Mar 2023 | Laurence Farreng | Shadows’ meeting with stakeholders "Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Implications for the education and youth sectors" |
| 29 Nov 2022 | Christian Ehler | European Research Area |
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