Steps for getting an Erasmus (Pablo en)
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In this blog I will try to explain all the steps that I did for getting my Erasmus (en)
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Introduction
I have done this blog for any student that is interested in an Erasmus exchange. I can only talk about experiences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, that’s why the things that I ‘m going to say doesn’t have to be true in others universities. Request the...
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the average is important
An important factor taken into account at the moment to give you the scholarship, and especially to classify the students for the destinations, is the average of your academic record. My average at the end of the first course was quite high, so I had more preference...
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Do you have a fixed destination?
Whenyou starttoask yourself togoonErasmus, lookwellthe destinations ofpast years. As a general rule, they do not changemuch, so you can used them to orientyouon the election for the nextyear. you have to studywellall destinations. Makealistofthosethat youwantandthose...
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Decide you want to study during your exchange
Depends on the course where you go on Erasmus, you will have more or fewer optionsat the time of choosing the subjects to want to study in your destination country. As a general rule you have to do 30 credits per semester. Others Universities will validatefrom 1. 2 to...
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Requirements
Before attempting to apply for a position, look carefully the minimum requirements. There aren't many. But meeting them, ensuring you do not have a place, only lets you qualify. You have to have all subjects in the first year of the course approved. That is, until you...
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Looking for subjects
One thing that will decide your mark and Erasmus is the hassle of validation. To choose your destination, you need to know if you can validate the subjects you want to do. Often there is no all subjects you'd want, or are not in the language that you can do. At my...
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First paperwork
By early December, you do the first paperwork to request your place of Erasmus. Usually send emails to corporate email. If not, used to enough put ads on the Internet. This first paperwork is quite simple. You have to put your main data, and put in order of preference...
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First news of the Erasmus
In early January, they will publish a list of selected people for Erasmus. Howerver, all are selected except those that don’t arrive until minimum requirements. This list is pretty stupid. If you know that you meet the minimum requirements, this list is useless. Check...
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Personal Interview
Until February You will not know nothing at all of the Erasmus, just waiting and the impatience of a thing as important as an exchange. But now little by little you will have to do more things, and you will have to way few days to know your final destination. These...
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First provisional list of destinations
In late February / early March (I think every time they are doing before) and is a provisional list of destinations. The cork hanging in there next to the Ori at the entrance of the faculty (biology is mine. ) Here comes your name and the interim target has touched...
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Final list
2 weeks after the provisional list, will the final list. In this list you're accepted safely in theplace of Erasmus to come out in the list. But beware, you're accepted does not meanyou can go on Erasmus, much unless you have killed all the headaches. Now is the...
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Meet your Coordinator
To give you a place of Erasmus, you will automatically be assigned a coordinator.Usually assigned based on the destination you go (mine was the coordinator for allNordic destinations. ) The coordinator is in the list of places of Erasmus. Search your mail and stays with...
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Validations
This step is the most important of all. You have to find some validation that are consistent with your career next year. The best thing is that you have already thought that subjects want to validate, but not always easy, because maybe in the destination you've been...
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Learning agreement
Once you have decided on the subjects they want to validate, you must complete the learning agreement. The papers give you the college, but you have to fill in your details and complete the list of subjects you want to study at the host university, and who want to...
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Think about the subjects
Think well the subjects that you will choose. In Umea subjects are one a time. If you can choose between several courses, it would be better if they were easier, but if you are fluent in English,do not worry if you take a subject very difficult. I took the first the...
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Learning agreement
One of the paperworks that it is necessary to do is the learning agreement, although it depends on the university of destination. The University gives you one quite simple, but a lot of universities will ask you for more detailed one (as the one of Umea). Here you have...
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Now you have to wait
During the following months, if you're lucky, you will not do anything, just wait. As I said, if you're lucky. If not, you can get emails from the host university, telling that some of the subjects you have requested could not do them (as happened to me. ) In principle...
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letter from Umea
Around mid-June (I received it on the 20th June), you will get a large envelope from the University of Umea (do not know how it goes in other universities). In the envelope there are: -Letter of aceptance: very important. Is the letter that says you're admitted to the...
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Sign Financial Agreement
Do not you forget to sign the financial agreement in the university, the ORI. There are some dates to do it. Do not forget to sign it, because if not, you will lose your scholarship! I signed even before knowing I was safe Umea, but hey that's the way... When I signed...
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Flying
When it comes on and you know you are accepted and you have any problem with the subjects, it is time to buy the plane to go. It is normal that you've already looked at before, but I recommend to don’t buy until you are sure you're going to go, then if for some reason...
