- Dr Manfred Stassen joined as the Director (1994-1998)
1990 - 1999
This decade saw a number of new scholarship programmes. The marketing initiative that then started was to make India the home country to the largest number of foreign students in Germany.
1994
1994
1997
1997
- Wissenschaftleraustauschprogramm (WAP) MoU was signed with the 5 IITs in 1997 to facilitate faculty exchange between India and Germany
- CSIR Directors visited DAAD Bonn in 1997 to celebrate more than 30 years of partnership

1998
1998
- IIT Master Sandwich Programme (now KOSPIE) was established. The first batch of engineering students travelled to Germany in 1998. The programme started with 5 IITs and now engages with 23 IITs
- Projektbezogene PersonalPartnerschaften (PPP) was a programme set up by the DAAD and the Department of Science & Technology. Since 1998, this joint cooperation programme has supported more than 450 projects
- Hannelore Bossmann joined as the Director (1998-2003)
1999
1999
- Foundations of the marketing activities were laid. The DAAD teamed up with a consortium of universities of applied sciences for their India tour

