Exchange student is a student (officially registered at the university or other higher education institution) who temporarily lives in a foreign country and attends courses or is involved in other academic activities. The exchange period usually lasts minimum 5 months (one semester) and maximum 10 months (two semesters). The exchange student does NOT receive a diploma from the host university. However, all academic results obtained at the host institution will be sent to his/her home university in the form of report (transcript of records).
If you are interested to come to the University of Sarajevo as exchange student through mobility program such as Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility, or through Bilateral cooperation (Freemover), there are FIVE steps you need to follow:
Check if there’s a Bilateral or Erasmus+ Inter-Institutional Agreement* between your home university and the University of Sarajevo (your IRO office might know);
Check the Academic Offer of the University of Sarajevo and contact our faculty coordinators regarding your exchange inquiry;**
Respect the deadlines for application and nomination;
Collect and prepare application documents and send/bring it to the your home institution IRO;***
Nomination (including your application documents) must be made by your home institution (Erasmus+ coordinators);****
Nomination is sent to these emails:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Please note that nomination doesn’t mean acceptance. University of Sarajevo will decide on student/staff mobility no later than 5 weeks after the application period has finished and notify partner university and applicant(s).
* – if you are applying for scholarship in this program, check the availability of scholarships for the University of Sarajevo, as well as if you are one of the approved cycle categories for mobility – BA, MA, PhD, Post Doc – this applies for Erasmus+.
** – if you are applying through Erasmus+, check defined academic fields that are included in the agreement for this mobility because sometimes not all study fields are included in the mobility scheme.
*** – you home institution Erasmus+ coordinators usually publish the call and give deadlines for you to apply. Make sure to follow those rules in order to apply on time.
**** – the University of Sarajevo will only consider applicants who have been nominated by their home institution. If the bilateral agreement (Erasmus+) is signed between your home university and our member institution (faculty/academy/center/institute), your university nominates students directly to the contact person at the member institution of the University of Sarajevo.
