SABA supports and accompanies people who have experienced migration or displacement to achieve a school-leaving certificate as a mature student, through a process known as the ‘zweiter Bildungsweg’.

The support covers school and travel costs as well as a budget for additional tutoring, materials and childcare. Advice, coaching and workshops are also a key aspect of this programme, accompanying the participants through the scholarship.

What distinguishes SABA from other educational programmes:

Networking: the SABA community of scholarship holders and those helping them remains active after the qualification has been attained, enabling them to continue the dialogue and helping each other to progress.

• Goal-oriented: The scholarship can be extended for up to three years so that participants gain the qualification they want.

• Personal: One-to-one advice focuses on each participant as an individual.

• Creative: Each year various creative SABA projects take place with artists.

Apply for a SABA scholarship

Applications for the 2025/2026 school year can be made from January 2025 onwards. 

‘SABA Mentoring’ supplementary programme

In the ‘SABA Mentoring’ programme we support SABA graduates in pursuing their careers after they have completed the educational scholarship. Volunteers mentor them through the first year of their apprenticeship or studies. The tandem relationship consolidates the participants’ recently acquired self-confidence.

SABA creative projects

Creative projects are at the heart of the SABA scholarship. In 2023, SABA’s annual creative project festival took place at Frankfurt LAB, presenting the artistic achievements of the six SABA groups in the fields of performance, museum, sculpture, theatre, hip-hop and digital. These works allow SABA scholarship holders to express their own strengths and the challenges they experienced, while also exploring the journeys they have taken and their outlooks for the future.