Information for Outgoing Students

Preparing the Mobility Semester

Overview

For their mobility semester, all MEi:CogSci students have to spend their third semester abroad at one of our parter universities. However, MEi:CogSci students and the programme coordinators start organising the mobility semester already in the first semester.

In the beginning of December MEi:CogSci students and the MEi:CogSci consortium members (professors and coordinators) from all partner universities meet at the Comenius University in Bratislava or online in times of the pandemic.

At the info meeting, each partner university presents its local MEi:CogSci mobility semester implementation and highlights some of the available options for project work and specialisation. The information provided will help students to chose preferred partner universities for their mobility semester. (You can find the presentations on the Downloads page.)

Furthermore, students from all the partner universities meet for the first time.

There is a limited number of places available at each partner university. That is, it is not possible for all students of a local cohort to do their mobility semester at the same partner university. Students need to be distributed equally among the partner universities with respect to organisational constraints.

The programme coordinators will inform you about the number of places available at each partner university. Students should negotiate a fair distribution with regards to students’ interests amongst themselves, i.e., their local cohort. Please take into account that some of your colleagues might need to see a doctor regularly, may have children, need to work to finance their studies, etc., and therefore may have a clear preference for going to a certain university.

In case the number of students exceeds the number of places available at a specific university, the programme coordinators will inform you and ask you to discuss the situation among your cohort. You can also ask the coordinators about alternative suggestions for partner universities with respect to your interests. If the conflict cannot be resolved, the coordinators will resolve the conflict by means of randomisation.

Information about Erasmus+ is available from the point of view of an outgoing student (from the home universtity, i.e., the University of Vienna) and the point of view of an incoming student (to the guest university, i.e., one of the MEi:CogSci Vienna partner universties):

Application at the Home University

• Information about Erasmus+ student exchange for outgoing students is provided on the website of the international office of the University of Vienna.

Application at the Host University

• Corresponding information about Erasmus+ for incoming students (i.e., information regarding the university you will spend your mobility semester at) is provided by our partner universities. Important dates and deadlines, information on the academic year and semester start/end, available courses in English, whom to contact, etc., can be found here:
  • Erasmus+ info for incomings at the Comenius University in Bratislava
    Local Erasmus+ Contact: Patrik Kmetek (Faculty of Mathemathics, Physics and Informatics)
  • Erasmus+ info for incomings at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
    Local Erasmus+ Contact: Gréta Kövecses(Faculty of Education and Psychology)
  • Erasmus+ info for incomings at the University of Ljubljana
    Local Erasmus+ Contact: Igor Repac (Faculty of Education)
• MEi:CogSci specific information can be found on these pages:
  
  • MEi:CogSci Mobility semester at the Comenius University in Bratislava
  • MEi:CogSci Mobility semester at the ELTE in Budapest
  • MEi:CogSci Mobility semester at the University of Ljubljana

You will receive an email by the Erasmus office after you have been nominated for an Erasmus+ scholarship. The email contains instructions for finishing the application procedure at the home and the host university.