Study Abroad Program Regulations
1. Rector's Regulation connected to international mobility program
2. The Erasmus + scholarship allowance
The scholarship is awarded from Erasmus+ projects which are available at KU in a given academic year. Rates for individual projects may vary.
3. Green Travel
4. Partner Universities
5. Tool for calculating the cost of living in a given country
6. Erasmus Student Charter
7. What are the possibilities of student mobility offered at KU?
There are following types of project offering the students mobility:
- Erasmus+ exchange (student exchange program at a partner university in Europe with co-financing),
- bilateral exchange (student exchange program with a partner university outside EU without co-financing)
In all mentioned cases, KU students do not pay for studies at partners university.
Erasmus+ offers students scholarships/co-financing for:
For students who want to participate in shorter international programs, KU partners offer the so-called international summer / winter schools, training courses. Offers are available at IRO FB. (podlinkowane FB IRO)
Such mobilities are not co-financed by Erasmus+.
I. Regulations for the student’ exchange program for studies:
Who can participate:
According to the rules of the Erasmus + program, study abroad is possible after completing the first year of undergraduate studies, i.e. students can go earliest at their second year. However, if you are under 18 years old, please check whether the partner university, you have chosen, has the option of admitting students under 18.
Students with active students status only can take part in the exchange program.
Program is open for students from undergraduate, master's or doctor's studies, for full-time and part-time form of studies.
Students who have failed the course and have the repeat the course may also apply for an exchange program, however in such a situation, the Vice-Dean makes decisions, setting a date for passing the overdue exam.
When to apply for the exchange program for studies:
Students apply for a mobility program in January of each year, if the mobility is planned in the next academic year: Fall and Spring semesters. So, in order to go abroad on the second year, you should get acquainted with the offer and the procedure already in October - November of the first year of your study.
Additional recruitment is possible in September for the Spring semester of the same year. Students choose places that have been unused or released after the recruitment in January. The request for individual application should be sent to [email protected]
How to apply:
Criteria:
The following criteria are taken into account:
A student can get max 100 points:
Necessary documents in English
II. The process of applying and implementing the exchange program for studies:
After receiving the LA, signed by three parties (KU Vice Dean, KU Student and Partner University), the Erasmus + Coordinator at KU prepares the Financial Agreement if the student goes to university in the Erasmus + program.
The student is required to read, complete and sign the Agreement. The agreement contains information on the settlement of the exchange, the method of calculating the scholarship, etc. (please note that according to EU general rules one year was adopted to 360 days and one month to 30 days).
Obligations resulting from the Erasmus + scholarship agreement
- Completing the subjects agreed in the Learning Agreement,
- Completing obligatory OLS language test before (starting the Mobility),
- filling in the obligatory Erasmus + questionnaire,
- sending an official Confirmation of Stay, issued by the host university to the IRO at KU
- uploading Transcript of Records to mykozminski system
The student has 30 days from the date of commencement of studies at the partner university to change courses.
- submit Confirmation of Stay to "After Mobility" section in mykozminski system
- upload to the mykozminski Transcript of Records to the "After Mobility" section
- response the Erasmus + Questionnaire
If students are not beneficiaries of the Erasmus + Program, they are obliged to:
- upload to the mykozminski Transcript of Records to the "After Mobility" section
Similar procedure is applicable for the students going for the Spring semester, adapted to the different time frame mobility.
III. About the Erasmus + scholarship
Who is eligible for Erasmus scholarship?
Each student at Kozminski University has the so-called mobility capital - a specific number of months that, within a given level of study, can be spent abroad as an Erasmus + scholarship holder:
12 months – undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies
24 months - master's studies in law
Mobility capital can be used by taking part in a exchange mobility for study, international internship or by combining these two types of mobility.
1. Co-financing from the Erasmus+ program budget is available to every student (who has active student status at KU) going to study at a partner university located in the European Union or going to an enterprise located in the European Union for an internship.
2. Every student with a disability who has a certificate or a student in a difficult financial situation who has a social scholarship may apply for additional funds under the Erasmus+ program when going on mobility to a partner university/enterprise. Detailed information can be found in the attachment about rates.
3. Scholarship is available to KU academic and administrative staff who go to a partner university located in the EU in order to conduct classes or exchange experiences.
4. Scholarship is available for experts, employees, representatives of EU companies, who are coming to KU to teach or give workshop to KU community.
5. E+ scholarship is a subsidy aimed at covering differences in the costs of living between the home and host countries.
IV. More about Erasmus+
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en
V. KU does not provide nor guarantee outgoing students accommodation in the city where they will carry out their mobility.
Students are responsible for taking care of/arranging flights, accommodation, visas and insurance on their own.