chill-out in Berlin

New arrangement for German Visa applicants

From September 1, 2009 visa applicants who wish to visit Germany, Austria, Estonia, Hungary or Latvia on a short term visit (up to three months) may submit all necessary travel documents to the

VFS German Application Centre

120/A Havelock Road
Colombo 5

Tel.: (0 11) 4 54 20 20
www.vfs-germany.com

Interviews and collection of passports however will be carried out at the German Embassy.

Emergency Food Aid to the North from Germany

Germany donates urgent food aid worth 4 Mio Euros (640 mn RS) to meet requirements of people displaced and economically affected in the Vanni and in Jaffna.

The donation is being implemented through the Relief and Recovery Operation “Food for Peacebuilding and Recovery in Conflict-Affected Areas” by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

 

The funds will be utilised to distribute 4.159 tons of rice, 897 tons of grain, 400 tons of vegetable oil, 800 tons of sugar, 2.500 tons of sugar-free cornsoyablend among the IDPs living in these areas.

DAAD scholarship award for research support

Mrs. Madura Sanjeevani Gonsal Koralage received a DAAD scholarship award

Germany on the Net

Steinmeier in Jakarta

Participate in our video contest - Schools: Partners for the Future!

Projects, common learning experiences and friends across borders!
School partnerships make it possible!
Participate in the Federal Foreign Office's video contest!
Make a video clip about a project you did with an international partner school, or design a new project that you can document on film! Show everyone through your film how much fun it is to expand your horizons and experience new things with friends from other countries. There are cool prizes -- and a surprise -- to be won!