- Dr Manfred Stassen joined as the Director (1994-1998)
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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
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

