The University of Debrecen announces a call for applications for mobility for study purposes (part-time studies) within the framework of the Pannonia Scholarship Programme for the spring semester of the academic year of 2024/2025.

About the Pannonia Scholarship Programm

The Pannonia Scholarship Programme offers students a wide range of opportunities to study abroad, gain work experience and conduct research in almost any country in the world, from undergraduate to postgraduate studies.

For more information: 

https://pannoniaosztondij.hu/about-the-pannonia-scholarship-programme

1. The aim of the programme

The aim is to enable you to gain educational, linguistic and cultural experience in a higher education institution in a partner country. Learning mobility should contribute to the student's academic progress and personal development.

2. Eligible applicants

Students enrolled at the University of Debrecen (bachelor, master, full-time graduate, doctoral and higher vocational education, full-time and correspondence courses) who have active student status. Individuals with doctoral candidate status are not eligible to apply. Students in receipt of a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship may not engage in long-term mobility during their studies.

3. Eligible activities

Activities eligible under this call for proposals:

• mobility of higher education students for one or two semesters (2-12 months) for the purpose of study for credit (part-time studies) in a partner institution abroad on the basis of an inter-institutional agreement,
• a clinical placement of at least 2 months in a teaching hospital of a partner university abroad for sixth-year students in general medical training, on the basis of an interinstitutional agreement.

The mobility must be completed between 1 January 2025 and 31 August 2025.

4. Countries participating in the programme

I. Country group

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Singapore, Taiwan, Andorra, Israel, Monaco, South Korea, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Taiwan, Israel

II. Country group

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Northern Macedonia, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Syria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Yemen, Russia, Ukraine

III. Country group

Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Colombia, Mexico, Algeria, Angola, South Africa, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Tunisia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru

5. Conditions of the application

General eligibility criteria

• The student is an active student at the University of Debrecen, i.e. studying for a degree on a full-time or part-time basis
• The student must be a Hungarian citizen or have a valid residence permit for the duration of the application and the stay.
• The destination of the scholarship mobility can be chosen from among the partner institutions which the University of Debrecen has a corresponding bilateral inter-institutional agreement with. https://internationaloffice.unideb.hu/partnerintezmenyek-listaja  
• The student passed the institutional assessment.
• The student has the necessary language skills (language of study at the partner university) and can provide credible proof of this at the time of the assessment of the application.
• The maximum cumulative duration of mobility in a training cycle is 12 months. Split training covers two cycles, so the maximum cumulative mobility period for split training is 24 months.
• Before the start of the moblility a study contract (Learning Agreement) must be signed with content agreed upon and signed by all parties, including the student, the sending and host university. The activity during the mobility must fit in with the student’s study plan.
• At the end of the period of study, the host institution abroad must issue a certificate of completion of the study programme and the results obtained.
• he sending institution is obliged to fully accept the activities undertaken, completed and certified in the study contract.
• Students are enrolled as full students at their home institution during their period abroad and are entitled to study grants, social benefits or other loans, but they must also pay tuition fees and other fees at their home institution. In the host institution they are exempt from tuition fees and enjoy the same rights as all students enrolled at the host institution.
• The student must be an active student at the sending institution until the end of the mobility.

 6. Documents required to submit an application

Attention! Documents must be submitted online in electronic format only (original documents scanned in pdf format).

• Online application: Application You can apply from 12 September 2024 until 06 October.
• A certificate of credits for the semesters completed during the course (at least 1 semester). In the case of Master's and doctoral programmes, if the applicant has not yet completed a semester, a certificate of the last semester of the previous Bachelor's or Master's programme may be submitted. The certificate must include the subjects completed and the scholarship index.
• Proof of language proficiency of at least B2 level (language examination certificate of knowledge of the language of study or certificate of language proficiency from the language tutor);
• A photocopy of your CV in English in Europass format;
• A motivation letter stating the applicant's objectives, the studies to be undertaken and the university to which he/she is applying (to be submitted on the online application form);
• Proof of academic/DD work (optional);
• Proof of student civic engagement;
• Letter of recommendation (optional).

Important! Faculties and departments may impose additional restrictions on applicants. Please check the specific requirements for each faculty or department before submitting your application.

7. Conditions for outgoing student mobility:

• A positive decision on the application by the relevant faculty committee and a positive assessment at institutional level. Documentary evidence of active student status for the semester of the assignment.
• Reception capacity of the foreign institution applied for. 
• A study contract with agreed content must be concluded before you start studying abroad. The study agreement signed by all three parties (student, sending university, host university) contains the list of courses to be taken at the partner university and the courses to be accepted as equivalent at the University of Debrecen, and the credit values assigned to them.
• Permission of the Faculty Studies Subcommittee (depending on the faculty).
• European Union health insurance card or health and accident insurance valid in the host country.
• If required by the country, a valid study visa issued for the student.

8. Grants

Funding rate

Please note that the scholarship does not necessarily cover all the costs incurred during your stay abroad, which may need to be supplemented from other sources.

9. Deadlines

Deadline for submission of applications: 06 October 2024 (midnight)

Deadline for evaluation of the application: 13 October 2024