Exchange Studies in the Academic Year 2009–2010: Application Period 20 April – 4 May

The degree students of the University of Tampere currently enrolled as present may apply for exchange studies in the following bilateral partner universities of the University of Tampere:

AUSTRIA
• UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG
3 students for one semester or for the academic year

ESTONIA
• UNIVERSITY OF TARTU
2 students for one semester or 1 for the academic year

GERMANY
• UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG
4 students for one semester or for the academic year

MEXICO
• INSTITUTO TECHNOLÓGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY, campus Ciudad Juárez
2 students for one semester or 1 for the academic year

RUSSIA
• IVANOVO STATE UNIVERSITY
2 students for one semester or 1 for the academic year
• MOSCOW STATE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY
2 students for one semester
• PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ECONOMICS, Moscow
2 students for one semester

UKRAINE
• TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV
1 student for one semester

TAIWAN
• NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY (NTNU)
3 students for the spring semester 2010


The applicants must have studied at the University of Tampere for at least one year, except those who apply to the University of Leipzig who must have studied for at least two years. Postgraduate students may apply for places at the Universities of Salzburg and Tartu.

Students cannot apply to study abroad for a period for which they do not have the right to study at the University of Tampere (N.B. Students studying at the master's degree programmes organized by the ISSS have a time limit for their studies, i.e. the right to study covers two years. The Dean of the Faculty can prolong the right to study upon application.)

Language requirements:
Austria and Germany: a good command of German
Estonia: a good command of Estonian if studying in Estonian in Tartu or a good command of English if studying in English
Mexico: a good command of Spanish and English (Ciudad Juarez)
Russia: a satisfactory command of Russian, except for the Plekhanov Academy: a good command of English and an elementary course in Russian
Taiwan: at least an elementary course in Chinese taken before the start of the exchange period (Chinese is the language of tuition in NTNU, only a limited number of courses are taught in English in some departments)
Ukraine: a satisfactory command of Russian or Ukrainian

The places are confirmed finally when the host universities accept the students.

Applicants fill in an application form, which is obtainable from 20 April onwards at the International Office A129 (Main Building). The application form is also accessible online at http://www.uta.fi/opiskelu/opiskelu_ulkomailla/index.html

Please return the application form and its enclosures (a transcript of academic records, a motivation letter, study plan and Curriculum Vitae in the host country's language of studies) to the International Office A129, by 3 pm on Monday 4 May. In addition to the enclosures mentioned above, students enrolled in Master's degree programmes (the separate two-year Master's programmes, not ‘ordinary' Master's degrees) should enclose a statement from a supervisor of her/his Master's thesis in which the supervisor supports student's application to the given host university.

Those selected to the exchange programmes receive a travel grant from the University of Tampere. However, the students who are accepted in the University of Leipzig will only receive the grant if the host university does not offer a grant.

For the descriptions of the exchange universities, please refer to our website http://www.uta.fi/opiskelu/opiskelu_ulkomailla/index.html (in Finnish). Please see the website
at http://www.uta.fi/studies/intcoop.html for the addresses of the exchange university websites, where you can find more information on the universities.

Additional information and consultation:

Universität Leipzig and University of Salzburg
Kaisa Kurki, (03) 3551 6234, Kaisa.Kurki@uta.fi , Room A114 (Main Building)

Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (campus Ciudad Juarez), Mexico
Leena Uski (03) 3551 8353, Leena.Uski@uta.fi , Room A113 (Main Building)

University of Tartu, universities in Russia, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and National Taiwan Normal University
Sari Hyttinen, (03) 3551 6039, Sari.Hyttinen@uta.fi , Room A115 (Main Building)