The students participating in ECTS will receive full credit for all academic work
successfully carried out at any of the ECTS partner institutions and they will be able
to transfer these academic credits from one participating institution to another on
the basis of prior agreement on the content of study programs abroad between students
and the institutions involved. All the students of the participating departments who
are willing to take part in the ECTS Pilot Scheme may do so if their institution agrees
within the limits of the available places. Most students participating in ECTS will go
to one single host institution in one single EU Member State, study there for a limited
period and then return to their home institution. Some may decide to proceed to a
third institution to continue their studies. In each of these three cases, students
will be required to comply with the legal and institutional requirements of the country
and institution where they take their degree. When the student has successfully
completed the study program previously agreed between the home and the host
institutions, and returns to the home institution, credit transfer will then take place,
and the student will continue the study course at his/her home institution without any
loss of time or credit. If, on the other hand, the student decides to stay at the host
institution and to take a degree there, he/she may have to adapt his/her study course
due to the legal, institutional and departmental rules in the host country, institution
and department. Students selected by each institution to participate in ECTS may only
be awarded a student mobility grant if they fulfil the general conditions of eligibility
for the ERASMUS grant. These are:
students must be citizens of one of the EU Member States or citizens of one of
the EFTA countries (or recognised by one of the Member states or one EFTA country as having
an official status of refugee or stateless person or permanent resident); as to EFTA
nationals, students will be eligible provided that they are moving within the framework of
ERASMUS from the respective EFTA home country to a EU Member State. EFTA nationals registered
as students in other EFTA countries or in Community Member states are only eligible for
participation in ECTS if they have established a right of permanent residence;
students shall not be required to pay tuition fees at the host institution; the student may, however,
be required to continue to pay his/her normal tuition fees to the home institution during
the study period abroad;
the national grant/loan to which a student may be entitled for study at his/her institution may not be discontinued, interrupted or reduced while that student is studying
in another Member State and is receiving an ERASMUS grant;
one study period abroad should not last less than three months or more than one year;
students in the first year of their studies are not eligible for receiving ERASMUS grants.
For more details on ECTS please consult the ECTS brochure which is available from:
The ECTS Department, ERASMUS Bureau
Rue Montoyer 70
B-1040 Bruxelles
Tel: +32/2/2330111, Fax +32/2/2330150