Please submit your complete application documents in PDF format via our mobility software Mobility Online by the respective deadline stated in the remaining places list: Mobility Online - Application process

• Application Documents

• Letter of motivation in German or English(for the university of your first choice; approx. 1 page)
• Curriculum vitae
• current Certificate of enrolment
• Transcript of Records: This document must be issued by your department. Please contact the respective examination office. We do not accept ToR documents that you can download yourself from UWE.
• Language certificate: you must not be more than one level below the language level required by the partner university at the time of your application. The language requirements of the partner universities are listed in the following document: "Language Requirements of Partner Universities". If you would like to apply for several partner universities that require knowledge of different languages, please submit proof for each of the languages. Please note that this proof must be submitted for the UW/H internal application procedure. The partner universities have their own requirements and may only accept official language certificates.
  Accepted proof (for the UW/H internal application procedure):
  - official language certificate (English: e. g. TOEFL; French: e. g. DELF DALF; Spanish: e. g. DELE; Italian: e. g. CELI)
  - confirmation of participation in language course
  - proof of stay abroad for several months
  - successful completion of foreign language university modules
  - school leaving certificate mentioning the attained language level
• if available: Proof of volunteer work during your studies
• if applicable: Erasmus+ Fewer Opportunities - Declaration on Honour (information + template in the download area)

You can access the list of the remaining spots for the academic year 2025/2026 by clicking on the link. The list will be updated on a weekly basis.

In case you need any help and instructions for our mobility online software, you can access our Mobility Online User Guide, here.

In this section you will find important documents that you should have read before your stay at the partner university.

In the ‘Outgoing Guide to Studying Abroad’ you will find a comprehensive FAQ on the topic of studying abroad. The ‘Flowchart Study Abroad’ gives you a rough overview of the individual phases and steps involved in your stay abroad. The document ‘Language requirements of partner universities’ gives you an overview of language requirements and any necessary language certificates for your studies abroad. If you receive Bafög or another scholarship, you should read the document on ‘Scholarship combinability and tax aspects’. We would also like to draw your attention to the ‘Erasmus+ Charter’ and ask you to read it.

Documents for download:

•     Outgoing Guide for Studying abroad
•     Flowchart Study abroad
•     Language requirements of the partner universities
•     Scholarship compatibility and tax aspects
•     Erasmus+ Charta for Students

In this section you will find documents that you must upload and edit in Mobility Online before starting your mobility. You must complete and sign the insurance declaration before the start of your mobility and upload it to Mobility Online. You can use the OLS for language learning support; instructions can be found below. Please use Mobility Online to create the OLA (Online Learning Agreement). Below you will find general instructions as well as an OLA example for WiGe students, which you can adapt for psychology, dentistry, human medicine or nursing science.

All documents must be available in Mobility Online before the start of your stay. The OLA must be signed by you, your department and the partner university.

Documents for download:

• Erasmus+ insurance declaration
• OLS Language Support Guide
• Instructions for creating an OLA (OLA Guide)
• Guideslines for creating the OLA (example: WiGe)

In this section you will find important documents for the start of your stay. After arriving at the partner university, please have the International Office there sign your ‘Confirmation of Arrival’ immediately and upload it to Mobility Online. You should also submit the same document at the end of your stay. Please keep your Confirmation of Arrival in a safe place.

If you want to make changes to your OLA, please let us know by email and only make the changes online in Mobility Online in the ‘During the Mobility’ section.

Documents for download:

• Confirmation of Arrival
• Instructions for creating an OLA (OLA Guide)
• Guideslines for creating the OLA (example: WiGe

In this section you will find some documents that you need to complete at/after the end of your stay and upload to Mobility Online. Have the International Office of the partner university confirm the end date of your stay in the ‘Confirmation of Stay’. The end of your stay is usually your last physical attendance event, e.g. last day of lectures or last exam written on site.

In addition to the ‘Confirmation of Stay’, please complete the ‘Experience Report’ and the ‘Travel Behaviour Document’ and upload them to Mobility Online.

Documents for download:

•     Confirmation of Stay
•     Experience report on studying abroad
•     Travel behaviour for the Sustainability Networking Office

Furthermore, please upload to Mobility Online:

•     Proof of participation in the Erasmus survey (you will receive the survey by email)
•     Official transcript of records from the partner university
•     current certificate of enrolment

You should contact the respective department to have your credits recognised. Please prepare the following documents for the crediting and recognition of your achievements abroad and send them together in an email to your examinations office or your contact person in the department. If you do not know the contact details, you can find them in the ‘After the Mobility’ step in Mobility Online. Students of dentistry and nursing science

The following documents must be submitted to the department:

•     OLA Before the Mobility & OLA During the Mobility (if changes applied)
•     Original transcript of records from the partner university
•     recognition document (please select the correct document for your degree programme)
•     Dentistry and Nursing Science students should submit their OLA and ToR directly to the department and their contact person responsible for them

Documents for download:

•     document for the recognition of credits WiGe
•     document for the recognition of credits in Medicine
•     document for the recognition of credits in Psychology

Studierende, die ein Auslandssemester an einer unserer Erasmus+ Partnerhochschulen absolvieren, erhalten einen Mobilitätszuschuss. Die Förderhöhe variiert je nach Ländergruppe und Projekt (s. u.). 

Um eine Erasmus+ Förderung erhalten zu können, muss der Auslandsaufenthalt mindestens 2 Monate umfassen. Die maximale Förderdauer je Studienzyklus beträgt jeweils 12 Monate für Bachelor- und Master-Studiengänge bzw. 24 Monate für Staatsexamenstudiengänge. Bereits absolvierte Erasmus+ Aufenthalte desselben Studienzyklus werden auf Ihr Förderkontingent angerechnet.

Bitte beachten Sie die Hinweise zur Kombinierbarkeit von Stipendien und zu steuerlichen Aspekten (im Downloadbereich).

Haftungsklausel: Dieses Projekt wird mit Unterstützung der Europäischen Kommission finanziert. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröffentlichung trägt allein der Verfasser; die Kommission haftet nicht für die weitere Verwendung der darin enthaltenen Angaben.

Erasmus Code: D WITTEN02

Hochschulen, denen die ECHE verliehen wurde, bekennen sich in ihrem European Policy Statement(EPS), d.h. ihrer Erasmus Erklärung zur Hochschulpolitik, zu den Kernthemen der europäischen Hochschulbildung und den Schwerpunkten der neuen Erasmus Programmgeneration. Das EPS beschreibt sowohl die allgemeine Strategie der Hochschule als auch die konkrete Umsetzung der wesentlichen Grundsätze des Programms.

→ Hier finden Sie die komplette Erasmus Policy Statement (EPS 2021 - 2027)

Funding rates for stays in the academic year 2024/2025 (WS 24/25 & SS 25)

Group 1 (600 euros per month): Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden.

Group 2 (540 euros per month): Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus.

Group 3 (490 euros per month): Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYROM, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey.

Funding rates for stays in the academic year 2025/2026 (WS 25/26 & SS 26)

Group 1 (600 euros per month): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden

Group 2 (540 euros per month): Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Hungary

Erasmus+ fewer opportunities

Participants with fewer opportunities can apply for a monthly top-up payment or, if applicable, for real costs to be covered. For detailed information, please refer to the information sheet (see below).

The modalities vary depending on the project:

Erasmus+ Project 2023 (stays abroad in WS 2024/2025 & SS 2025) & Project 2024 (stays abroad in WS 2025/2026 & SS 2026)

Target groups:
- Participants with a child
- Participants with a degree of disability from 20
- Participants with a chronic illness that leads to additional financial needs abroad
- Students in employment
- Participants from a non-academic parental home

Top-up: 250€ / month

Real costs: Funding of up to €15,000 / semester for participants with a child, participants with a degree of disability of 20 or more or a chronic illness that leads to additional financial needs abroad.

In order to reduce the ecological footprint of the Erasmus+ programme, green travel will be financially rewarded. From the 2024 project onwards, students who are not travelling green can also receive travel cost support.

The modalities vary depending on the project.

Erasmus+ project 2023 (WS 2024/2025 & SS 2025)

You can receive a one-off top-up payment i. of 50€ and additional funding of up to 4 travel days for green travel. For detailed information, please refer to the document ‘Erasmus+ Green Travel - Information Sheet (Project 2023)’.

If you wish to make use of the green travel option, please sign and hand in the Declaration on Honour before the submission of your Grant Agreement the start of your stay abroad.

Erasmus+ Project 2024 (WS 2025/2026 & SS 2026)

From the Erasmus project 2024 onwards, both ‘green’ and ‘non-green’ travel can be financially supported.

Green travel: You can apply for additional funding of up to 6 travel days for green travel.

Non-green travel: You can apply for additional funding of up to 2 travel days for non-green travel.

For detailed information, please refer to the document  ‘Additional funding for travel in the Erasmus+ programme (project 2024)’.

If you wish to make use of the green or non-green travel funding option, please sign and hand in the Declaration on Honour before the submission of your Grant Agreement the start of your stay abroad.

Erasmus+ Project 2023

You will find all the information you need to apply for Green Travel in the information sheet. Please read this carefully before applying.

If you wish to apply for the Top-Up, please submit your signed declaration on honour ‘Green Travel’ to the International Office before the start of your mobility. Subsequent applications after the start of your mobility are not possible.

 
Erasmus+ Project 2024

You will find all the information you need to apply for Travel Costs in the information sheet. Please read this carefully before applying.

If you wish to apply for the Top-Up, please submit your signed declaration on honour ‘Travel Expenses Support’ to the International Office before the start of your mobility. Subsequent applications after the start of your mobility are not possible.