Exchange students

If you would like to come to the European University Viadrina as an exchange student for one or two semesters as part of the Erasmus+ programme, please contact your home university first. Your home university will nominate you for your stay at our university. Once we have received your nomination, we will send you a link to an online-portal where you can complete your application. You will receive further information about the application by e-mail following your successful nomination.

Please contact the International Office of your home university if you intend to come to Viadrina via the Erasmus+ KA171 programme (Ukraine, Georgia, Kosovo).

If you are studying at one of our approximately 290 partner universities worldwide and would like to spend part of your studies - usually a semester or an academic year - at the European University Viadrina, but the Erasmus programme is not available, you can apply as an exchange student. As an exchange student, you can acquire credits (ECTS credits) at Viadrina, but not a degree. Double degree programmes are an exception to this rule.

You must first express your interest in an exchange to your home university, which must nominate you for a stay with us. Once we have received your nomination from your home university, we will send you a link to an online portal where you can complete your application. You will receive further information about the application by e-mail following your successful nomination.

If you are studying at a foreign university that is not one of our partner universities, i.e. you cannot take advantage of Erasmus or non-EU programmes, you can study at the European University Viadrina as a visiting student for part of your studies - usually one semester or one academic year. As a visiting student, you can earn credits (ECTS credits), but will not receive a degree from Viadrina. Write us an email to receive all relevant information about the application process.

The summer programme at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) combines excellent English-language courses with a unique international experience in the heart of Europe and offers you all the advantages of a short exchange semester for those interested in undergraduate studies. During their stay, students from all over the world earn academic credits (up to 18 ECTS), expand their international network and experience cultural exchange.

More information

Before you send us an e-mail, please check which of the options described above applies to you. If you apply to the European University Viadrina via a nomination at your home university (Information for our partner universities on digital nominations), you will receive a link to the online application form from us after your successful nomination.

Guest students whose home universities do not have a contract with the European University Viadrina, please send us an email to students-in@europa-uni.de with a detailed expression of interest.

Application deadlines

Please note our current deadlines for submitting your application:

Winter semester:
15 July for EU citizens (31 May is recommended for non-EU citizens)

Summer semester:
15 January for EU citizens (30 November is recommended for non-EU citizens)

Before you apply, you should find out which study programme you are interested in at the European University Viadrina and which language certificates you can submit.

You can also find further information on our website about the visa, the arrival and enrollment, which are the next steps after a successful application.

After you have successfully submitted your application details and the required documents via the online application portal for international students, you will receive your acceptance documents, including the Letter of Acceptance and all additional materials required for your application for a visa for study purposes.

Congratulations on your admission to the European University Viadrina! We look forward to welcoming you at our university for one or even two semesters!

After the applications for the upcoming semester have been processed, your application data will be transferred from the online application portal to our university system viaCampus. As soon as this transfer is complete, you will receive an email with your personal viaCampus user name and an automatically generated password.
Important: Wait to receive this email before attempting to log in to viaCampus.

Online enrollment

Use our step-by-step guide to help you successfully complete your enrollment and finally get started with your studies at Viadrina. We also offer a Virtual Enrollment Day every semester, in which we go through the enrollment process step by step and you will have the opportunity to ask questions.

After you have successfully completed the online enrollment, you can create and download a three-page PDF document on the website. Print out this document and keep it safe:

Page 1 - Application for enrollment: This must be signed by you.
Page 2 - Payment details for the semester contribution.
Page 3 - Your final username and password for Viadrina's online services.

Submitting the documents

Please submit the following documents - either digitally (by e-mail to students-in@europa-uni.de) or printed out to the ServicePoint.

• Completed and signed application for enrollment
• Proof of payment of the semester contribution
  
• Proof of sufficient health insurance cover

 

Complete enrollment

Once the documents have been received, the Viadrina Admissions Office will process your application for enrollment, issue your student ID card and activate your student account. This process takes one to two weeks.

You will then be given access to viaCampus and all other Viadrina online systems.
You can then also download your enrolment certificate in viaCampus, for example when your student ID card is ready for collection. To do this, go to My studies > Student services > Notifications/certificates > Common reports > Actions (Print).

Students who come to the European University Viadrina through an exchange programme are usually requried to make a Learning Agreement with their home university and the European University Viadrina. A Learning  Agreement documents your course selection on a semester-by-semester basis. Please contact your home university to find out whether you need to submit the Learning Agreement digitally via an online platform or as a PDF document by email.

To fill out the Learning Agreement, you should know in advance

• which study programme you want to attend,
• which language certificates are required,
• whether you are coming for the winter or/and summer semester (see academic calendar),
• which teaching & examination forms there are.

In order to help you with this, we provide you with our Learning Agreement Guide. It contains all the information you need to enter in the Learning Agreement. For your selection of courses, you will find the course catalogue as well as the offered language courses on our website.

On this document we confirm the duration of your stay at the European University Viadrina. Usually, your home university provides you with this form (e.g. "Attestation de Présence", "Confirmation of Period of Stay", "Confirmation of Arrival and Departure"). If that is not the case, we can issue the document for you.

Your courses, grades and acquired ECTS are listed on a "Transcript of Records". We will only issue this document after you send us a request by e-mail and confirm that you have received all grades. In order to do this, please email us at students-in@europa-uni.de and attach a PDF file with the grades of your academic courses from viaCampus. You can find these under:
My studies > Student Services > Notifications/Certificates > Transcript of Records.

If you have taken language courses, you will find a printout of the grades on viaCampus under:
My studies > achievements > transcript of grades for language courses. Please send this to us as well.

If you have failed a course (or several courses) and do not want it to be included in your Transcript of Records, please let us know.

Further final documents regarding your stay at the Viadrina can be found here.