Call for applications for student mobility to study abroad (part-time studies) in the academic year 2025/2026

 

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 autumn and spring semesters of the academic year 2025/2026.

About the Pannonia programme

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.

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, master's, doctoral and higher vocational education, full-time and correspondence courses) who have 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 must take place between 1 August 2025 and 31 August 2026.

4. Participating countries 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, Andorra, Israel, Monaco, South Korea, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Taiwan

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, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

5. Application conditions

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 with which the University of Debrecen has a bilateral inter-institutional agreement.
  • 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 mobility duration per training cycle is 12 months. Five year degree programmes cover two cycles, so the maximum cumulative mobility period is 24 months.
  • Before you start studying abroad, you must have a written study contract with agreed content. 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.
  • The sending institution is obliged to fully accept the activities undertaken, completed and certified in the study contract.
  • Students are enrolled full-time 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.  They are exempt from tuition fees at the host institution 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 (scanned original documents in pdf format).

  • Submit application: Application
  • A certificate of credit 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 level B2 (language examination certificate of knowledge of the language of study or certificate of language proficiency from the language tutor);
  • Photographic CV 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);
  • Other relevant documents:
    • Proof of academic/TDK work (optional);
    • Proof of student civic engagement (optional);
    • 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.
  • The hosting capacity of the applicant foreign institution.
  • A study contract (Learning Agreement) with agreed content must be concluded before you start studying abroad. The study contract signed by all three parties (student, sending university, host university) contains the list of courses to be taken at the partner university and the list of 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 student visa issued to the student.

8. Grants

Pannonia Scholarship Programme - Grant amounts

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 the application: 12 March 2025 (midnight)

Deadline for evaluation of the application: 01 April 2025.

Last update: 2025. 03. 04. 10:17