KEY ACTION 1 – INTERNATIONAL CREDIT MOBILITY

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KA1 (ICM – studying abroad – short mobility for students)

Opportunities to study abroad are available to students at short-cycle Bachelor and Master levels and Doctoral candidates.

If a Kosovo Higher education Institution (Public or private) has been selected as a winner in a bilateral project in the International Credit Mobility framework, its students can profit from short-term mobility, from 3 up to 12 months for Bachelor, Master, and PhD students. Students can also do a blended mobility, combining a virtual period with a physical short or long-term mobility. The short-term physical presence abroad as part of blended mobility lasts a minimum of 5 days and a maximum of 30 days.

You can benefit from an exchange abroad with Erasmus+ multiple times, either as a student or as a trainee, but your total time abroad (study abroad periods included) may not exceed 12 months within one cycle of study.

“Cycle” refers to the level of study as defined by the European Qualifications Framework (EQF):

• First cycle (Bachelor or equivalent) EQF – 5/6

• Second cycle (Master or equivalent) EQF 7

• Third cycle (Doctoral or equivalent) EQF 8

For “one-cycle” courses such as medicine or architecture, you can go abroad with Erasmus+ for as long as 24 months.

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Conditions:

To study abroad with Erasmus+, you must be registered in a higher education institution in Kosovo and enrolled in studies leading to a recognized degree or tertiary-level qualification. For students in the first cycle, you need to be at least in the second year of your studies.

Your period of study abroad must be relevant to your degree-related learning and personal development needs, and be part of the study program that you are following.

Your home institution and the receiving institution must have an inter-institutional agreement for you to study there with Erasmus+.

All applicants should contact their institutions' international relations or project offices to learn if any Erasmus+ mobility project is being implemented. They should receive information about the time of launching individual applications, selection criteria, application time-frame, etc.
The language requirements are specified in the inter-institutional agreement between the two universities.

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How to apply:

You can apply through the international or Erasmus+ office of your higher education institution.

You should be selected by your sending higher education institution fairly and transparently.

A student ought to know:
Selection criteria for students and staff are stipulated in agreement between the sending are receiving institutions. They should be announced when the call for applications is launched and be properly advertised.

Recognition of the study period is a compelling condition between the two institutions. The receiving institution is obliged to equip the student and sending institution with the list of results and the sending institution is obliged to fully acknowledge the modules implemented and the list of results he achieved. For such reason, the student fills out the “Learning Agreement for studies”.

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For additional information, please contact the international relations or project office in your University.

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