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General Information Partner Universities Find Out More Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students Frank Keller School of Informatics University of Edinburgh [email protected] December 7, 2009 Frank Keller Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students 1 General Information Partner Universities Find Out More 1 General Information 2 Partner Universities Barcelona Saarbr¨ ucken Antwerp Warsaw Trento Other Universities 3 Find Out More Frank Keller Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students 2 General Information Partner Universities Find Out More What is Socrates/Erasmus? It’s an EU-funded student exchange program; available to undergraduate and postgraduate students (incl. PhD students); you can spend between 3 and 9 months abroad; you get a Socrates/Erasmus mobility grant to cover the additional costs of studying abroad (about e 350 per month); all Edinburgh students can participate, but only nationals of EU and associated countries are eligible for the grant; you can’t take part more than once; the partner university doesn’t charge tuition fees; in some cases you don’t pay Edinburgh fees either. Frank Keller Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students 3 General Information Partner Universities Find Out More When is the best time to go? Undergraduates typically benefit most when they go abroad in their third year; it’s best to go for a full year (9 months), as the semester dates at partner universities are often incompatible with ours; but sometimes semester-long exchanges can be arranged; Erasmus application deadline is mid-February for the academic year starting next September; speak to your School Erasmus Coordinator (Frank Keller, [email protected]) if you’re interested in applying. Frank Keller Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students 4
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Page 1: Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students What is ... · Erasmus application deadline is mid-February for the academic year starting next September; speak to your School Erasmus

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Erasmus Exchanges for Informatics Students

Frank Keller

School of InformaticsUniversity of [email protected]

December 7, 2009

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1 General Information

2 Partner UniversitiesBarcelonaSaarbruckenAntwerpWarsawTrentoOther Universities

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What is Socrates/Erasmus?

It’s an EU-funded student exchange program;

available to undergraduate and postgraduate students(incl. PhD students);

you can spend between 3 and 9 months abroad;

you get a Socrates/Erasmus mobility grant to cover theadditional costs of studying abroad (about e 350 per month);

all Edinburgh students can participate, but only nationals ofEU and associated countries are eligible for the grant;

you can’t take part more than once;

the partner university doesn’t charge tuition fees; in somecases you don’t pay Edinburgh fees either.

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When is the best time to go?

Undergraduates typically benefit most when they go abroad intheir third year;

it’s best to go for a full year (9 months), as the semesterdates at partner universities are often incompatible with ours;

but sometimes semester-long exchanges can be arranged;

Erasmus application deadline is mid-February for the academicyear starting next September;

speak to your School Erasmus Coordinator (Frank Keller,[email protected]) if you’re interested in applying.

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Do I get credit for it?

Your stay abroad is part of your degree, you will receive fullcredit for courses taken at the partner university;

your School Erasmus Coordinator will advise you on whichcourses to take;

most universities use the European Credit Transfer System(ECTS), which facilitates transfer of credit;

a normal course load (1 year) is 60 ECTS points, whichcorresponds to 120 UoE points;

However, if you go abroad in your third year, then the marksobtained at the partner university don’t contribute to yourhonors classification.

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The Language Barrier

What if you don’t speak Catalan, German, Dutch, Polish,Italian?

Erasmus can provide funding for language courses, either inEdinburgh (before you leave) or at the partner university;

you may be able to get ECTS credits for language courses atthe partner university;

most of our partner universities teach some of their courses inEnglish (esp. advanced courses);

but you might need language skills for non-academic purposes;

and there’s always Ireland.

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BarcelonaSaarbruckenAntwerpWarsawTrentoOther Universities

Barcelona

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BarcelonaSaarbruckenAntwerpWarsawTrentoOther Universities

Barcelona

Partner: Barcelona School of Informatics, UniversitatPolitecnica de Catalunya (UPC);

we have places for two outgoing students per year;

available to all undergraduate and postgraduate studentstaking Informatics degrees;

languages:

undergrad teaching mostly in Catalan or Spanish;masters-level teaching in English;

main research areas: theoretical CS, bioinformatics, machinelearning and AI, speech processing.

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Saarbrucken

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Saarbrucken

Partners: Department of Computer Science and Department ofComputational Linguistics, Saarland University, Saarbrucken;

also there: DFKI (German Research Center for ArtificialIntelligence), Max Planck Institute for Computer Science;

we have places for two outgoing students per year;

available to all undergraduate and postgraduate studentstaking Informatics degrees;languages:

undergrad teaching either in German or in English;masters-level teaching in English;

main research areas: theoretical CS, programming languages,bioinformatics, image processing, computer vision, computergraphics, computational linguistics.

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Antwerp

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Antwerp

Partner: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,University of Antwerp;

we have places for two outgoing students per year;

available to all undergraduate and postgraduate studentstaking Informatics degrees;

languages:

undergrad teaching in English in courses taken by internationalstudents;masters-level teaching in English;

main research areas: databases, theoretical CS, programminglanguages, AI, software engineering, computational linguistics.

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Warsaw

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Warsaw

Partner: Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw;

we have a place for one outgoing students per year;

available to all undergraduate and postgraduate studentstaking Informatics degrees;

information on languages and research areas incomplete, butteaching seems to be mainly in Polish.

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Trento

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Trento

Partner: Department of Information and CommunicationTechnology, University of Trento;

also there: FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler);

we have places for one outgoing student per year;

available to all undergraduate students taking Informaticsdegrees;

languages:

undergrad teaching mostly in Italian;masters-level teaching in English;

main research areas: automated reasoning, communicationtechnology, bioinformatics, computer networks, cognitivescience, computational linguistics.

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Other Universities

What if none of the Informatics partner universities appeals toyou?

UoE has 150 Erasmus partners in 23 countries;

in principle all exchange links are open to all UoE students;

but the students studying in the School the link belongs tohave priority;

a database of all links can be found on the web page of theInternational Office;

there are also international exchanges (non-Erasmus links);these are administered by the International Office directly(they are not specific to Informatics).

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Find out more about Erasmus

UK Erasmus Council: http://www.erasmus.ac.uk/

International Office:http://www.international.ed.ac.uk/

School Erasmus Coordinator: Frank Keller([email protected])

Next application deadline: mid-February.

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