Here you find information on the steps that are important during your mobility, regardless if it is a physical mobility, a virtual mobility or a hybrid mobility. The kind of mobility you declare in the workflow of your participant's account before you upload the arrival certificate there.
Furthermore please do not forget that you are an ambassador of Goethe University, so please advertise a study abroad period at Goethe to your fellow students there and encourage them to come to Frankfurt. The
exchange mobility numbers need to be balanced in order to keep the
partnerships alive and to be able to send students to the partner
universities.
The Confirmation of Period of Study is provided in your
participant's account once the Grant Agreement has been checked as correct
there. At the end of your study period please do not forget to get the end
date confirmed in this confirmation document as well. Without this
proof of your actual mobility dates we would have to request you to
pay back the ERASMUS grant.
Please upload the signed Arrival Certificate together with the proof of travel (bus or train or ferry or plane tickets, filling station receipts) in the workflow of your participant's account. The proof of travel is necessary with regard to possible Green Travel funding. Please refer to the information specifically for your ERASMUS year for the current information on Green Travel funding.
If you attended a preparatory language course in the host country, the start date of this course can be registered in your participant's account instead of the start date of your studies.
You are obliged to regularily visit the courses agreed upon in the first Learning Agreement. If changes have to be made at the start of your ERASMUS study period, you have to complete a new Learning Agreement /Changes to Learning Agreement within four weeks of the start of the lecture period.
The Changes to Learning Agreement has to be completed in the OLA - process, but this is possible only if your first Learning Agreement had been successfully completed in OLA. If this was not the case, please download the template Changes to Original Learning Agreement provided in the workflow of your participant's account, discuss and agree upon the added and cancelled courses. For counsel with regard to the possible recognition of ERASMUS credits please contact your departmental coordinator and if necessary also your examination office. Collect all signatures (your signature, the signature of your departmental coordinator at Goethe-University and the responsible person at the host institution) and upload the completed document. The same is necessary in case of an extension of the ERASMUS period for a module or semester. Please make sure to upload the document into your participant's account shortly after its completion. The GO of GU will then check if it is formally correct and in case it is not, you will receive an email and have to make the necessary correction before uploading it again.
Unauthorized changes in your study program may most certainly preclude recognition of credits and may even lead to a complete backpayment of the ERASMUS grant. Be advised to choose courses with a workload of 30 ECTS credits per semester and to attend regularly and continuously. According to the EU Commission these 30 ECTS mark the standard semester workload of a home student. As an ERASMUS participant of GU you do not need to take and successfully complete 30 ECTS, but we strongly suggest you do since ERASMUS is an academic exchange program after all.Language
courses at the host university/in the host country (for language of teaching or
language of host country only
Some host
universities offer preparatory or semester long language courses - some free of
cost, some with fees. If
you have completed such a course successfully, please upload the course
certificate into the workflow of your participant's account. If course fees
applied, please include the payment slip in that pdf-file. This is
possible only after the start of your mobility.
For the reimbursement of language
course fees only limited funds are available in ERASMUS. We reimburse the
actual course fee for maximum 2 language courses up to a maximum amount of
100€ in total. Please refer to the information specifically for your ERASMUS year
for the subject of reimbursement of fees.
If your host institution allocates ECTS credits to the
language courses, these can be included in the 30 ECTS credits per semester.
In current times it is hard to foresee the situation in a country, region or city at the time of your mobility. You as an ERASMUS participant visit your host country at your own risk. If the country is in an unstable socio-political state, we recommend you register yourself in the crisis precaution list of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (ELEFAND). This applies also to the current pandemic situation.
If you need to terminate your ERASMUS mobility due to unforeseeable events in the host country, an individually documented proof of a travel warning (Reisewarnung des Auswärtigen Amtes) of the Federal Foreign Office (screenshot with date) is enough for us to accept this ERASMUS mobility, even if its duration is less than 60 days/2 months.
If you want to extend your period of stay, you have to
apply for that extension in your participant's account in the part During
the mobility. This is possible only once you have uploaded your arrival
certificate.
You have to apply for an extension of the ERASMUS
period at least 30 days before the originally planned end-date, either if your
start date was earlier or you will conclude your study period later than
originally planned.
This you do in your participant's account and applies
to minimal extensions from a couple of days to a couple of weeks to extensions
by a module or full semester. Minimal extensions from a couple of days to a
couple of weeks have to be registered by us, are important to receive full
funding, but cannot not be funded if your ERASMUS period exceeds 120 days per
semester/240 days per academic year.
A minimal extension does not require permission by the
departmental coordinator or the host institution. Please pay attention when
marking the correct field in your participant's account.
For extensions for a module or semester, trimester or
placement/internship at the host institution please mark this accordingly in
the participant's account first. Then talk to the responsible person at the
host university and your departmental coordinator at GU, because these two have
to give written permission by email to outgoing@uni-frankfurt.de that the
extension is granted within the ERASMUS program. Only after receiving these
emails your application for extension can be processed in the participant's
account. You will then be provided with a Changes to Original Learning
Agreement form for the extension period in your participant's account.
Additionally in all cases of extension an updated
Grant Agreement will be provided. Please complete and upload these into your
account in due time.
Please notice: An extension period has to immediately
follow the current mobility period. Extensions past the summer semester cannot
be permitted, because the fiscal administration of ERASMUS at Goethe University
is done by academic years. For officially confirmed additional examination
periods or studies an extension can be granted until the end of the official
ERASMUS period, September 30. Maximum duration is 12 months per regular study
cycle though; for students in the traditional study programs Diplom, Magister
and Staatsexamen (state examination) up to 24 months.
An extension by a second semester after the summer
semester into the winter semester of the following academic year is possible
only by submission of a new application for the new ERASMUS study period with
your departmental coordinator, who has to decide if another placement in the
program is possible. Please contact him/her as early as possible.
If enough funds are available for all extensions for a module/semester that reach the GO in due time, cannot be determined at this point. This is a case-by-case decision in the order we receive the applications for extension, that depends on the number of cancellations, terminations and shortenings of ERASMUS mobilities. If the funds available are not sufficient, you may still extend your ERASMUS study period under the tuition waiver, but the extension will be valued as zero grant days which means no financial support. In prior years though all extensions could be funded up to the possible maximum.
If you have to cancel
your ERASMUS participation please notify your departmental coordinator AND Mr.
Purkert at the Global Office at outgoing@uni-frankfurt.de immediately. The same goes for terminations
and shortenings of the mobility, that is if you reduce the actual duration
below the planned duration, also in case you reduce a mobility planned for two
semesters down to one semester only. Mr. Purkert will contact you concerning
the backpayment of the grant. If the duration of your ERASMUS mobility drops
below 2 monts (60 days), you have to pay back the grant in full, since this is
the minimum duration in the ERASMUS program. If the duration is 60
days or more, you will have to pay back a partial sum of the grant. Sometimes it is sufficient if the outstanding
outpayment is reduced accordingly.
At the end of your
study period please do not forget to get the end date confirmed in the Confirmation
of Period of Study -
signed AND stamped at the international office of your host institution or with
the departmental coordinator. Without this proof of
your actual mobility dates we would have to require you pay back the ERASMUS
grant. The Confirmation of Period of Study had been provided in your
participant's account at the start of your mobility. In case you lost the
document you can download it again in the same step as before.
Please upload the signed Confirmation of Period of Study together with the proof of travel (bus or train or ferry or plane tickets, filling station receipts) in the workflow of your participant's account. The proof of travel is necessary with regard to possible Green Travel funding. Please refer to the information specifically for your ERASMUS year for the current information on Green Travel funding.
Also please inquire
about the modalities concerning your official Transcript of Records from
the host institution. Usually this is provided as an email attachment or
is is being sent by mail to you, your departmental coordinator at GU or us
at the Global Office. In case we receive it, we will notify you by
email so you can pick it up or we can forward it to you. Please upload a scan
of your transcript into your participant's account. You will also need this
document for the recognition of your ERASMUS credits at GU.