Inter-university Agreements - Mobility of Academics

Inter-university Agreements - Mobility of Academics

Charles University’s inter-university agreements enable academic staff members to travel abroad for short periods (1–3 weeks) for purposes of research, study, and teaching.

Most of the inter-university agreements that Charles University concludes with foreign partner universities support the mobility of researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral students. These regard short-term (one- to three-week) research, study and lecture stays, which the academic staff arrange with their foreign partners in advance.

The numbers of the academic mobility are limited by contracts (i.e., numbers of days and persons per year), provided reciprocity and according to the current financial conditions of both universities. No academic staff is entitled to the academic mobility automatically.

A complete list of partner universities of Charles University currently involved in academic mobility schemes can be found here.

One-month scholarships offer for stays at partner university in 2023 in GERMANY

Our partner university the University of Hamburg offers several month-long scholarship stays for PhD students and academics within the framework of interuniversity cooperation.

Universität Hamburg

  • 6 - 8 one-month scholarships for PhD students or academics

PhD students - 1200 EUR/month, academics – 1900 EUR/month

Required attachments:

a) Academic Visitor Application (must be signed by the applicant and the head of the institute, the signature of the vice-dean will be assured by the International Office)

b) structured curriculum vitae (only for PhD students)

c) Preliminary promise of admission by a teacher from a partner university( PhD students) and invitation letter issued by the partner university (for academics)

d) Detailed description of the study plan in German or English (only for PhD students)

e) Average of study results from previous studies (only for PhD students)

We kindly ask academics to send all documents to the International office, to Marie Stanovská, email: studyabroad@fsv.cuni.cz by 27 February 2023.

PhD students, please upload your documents and the application to the online application system by 27 February 2023.

Call for mobility in the calendar year 2023

The closing date for applications is 7 December 2022

Applications are to be sent to Marie Stanovská, email: studyabroad@fsv.cuni.cz

Who can apply:

a) scientific and teaching staff of all faculties of Charles University, incl. postdoctoral students (in regular employment with Charles University, not freelancers),

b) PhD students in all faculties of Charles University

Application Process

The applicant contacts his/her current/potential scientific partner at a contracted foreign university and agrees with him/her on the specific content and purpose of his/her stay. Based on the agreement, the applicant prepares the application form in one original copy (please do not staple) including:

  1. Academic Visitor Application – Application Form
  2. Invitation letter from a foreign partner proving the consent of the purpose of the applicant's stay. Please, provide the invitation letter on the letterhead of the partner’s university.
  3. Justification for multiple stays (concerning applications for more than 2 trips a year to one country).

The deadline for application submission for the calendar year 2023 is 7 December 2022.

  • the application documents for all foreign partner universities shall be sent electronically to the email:  studyabroad@fsv.cuni.cz OR by internal post to Marie Stanovská International Office, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hollar Building)
  • The mobility of researchers in non-European countries can be discussed individually at any time during the year.

General selection criteria

The applications from academics are evaluated based on these criteria:

- mutually beneficial cooperation

- perspective of long-term cooperation

- support for junior scientists

- new scientists and new disciplines

- reciprocity

Three-stage selection procedure

1) Faculty of Charles University

The application that meets all requirements shall be approved by the head of the department. At the faculty level, the Vice-Dean for Foreign Affairs shall decide on the nominations. The deadline for application submission for the calendar year 2023 is 7 December 2022.

2) Rectorate of Charles University

The Vice-Rector for International Relations and Mobility shall decide on nominations on the CU level. 

3) Foreign university

The nominations submitted by the Vice-Rector are subject to an approval process at the level of the rectorate of the partner university. Nominations received are announced through the International Office FSV UK, usually during January/ February 2023.

​​​​​​​Financial backing of the stay

The faculty of Charles university contributes to travel expenses according to internal rules, the host university contributes to the living expenses (ie. accommodation and per diems). The level of contributions varies from country to country and is also governed by the university’s current financial capacity. In case a foreign university does not have sufficient financial resources to cover subsistence costs or can only partially cover them the researcher must secure an additional source of funding.

Obligations of academic mobility participants

  • Please, report the agreed date of your stay to OZS FSV (unless it is specified in the application form or if there is a change),
  • Immediately report a possible cancellation of your stay to OZS FSV so your spot can be offered to other interested parties,
  • within 14 days after your return, fill in the Report of a foreign trip (Závěrečná zpráva ze zahraniční cesty), let it sign by the head of the department, and submit it to the International Office of the Faculty which will forward it to the International Relations Office at the Rectorate.

The above-mentioned conditions and procedure only apply to the agreements with universities from Germany, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, and Greece. In the case of other countries, the agreements are framework and do not specify the conditions of academic stays, do not ensure financing, and no nomination from the Charles University rectorate is required. It is therefore not necessary for applications to go through the CU rectorate approval process. In these cases, academics arrange their stay directly with the receiving workplace according to the conditions of the host university, and the faculty only informs the rectorate about the employee's departure. If
assistance from the CU rectorate is necessary in communicating with the host university, please contact the coordinator for the given region.

Partner universities

The list of Inter-university agreements that the Faculty of Social Sciences participates on:

Armenia Yerevan State University
Australia Griffith University
  Macquarie University
  University of Melbourne
  University of Queensland
Bulgaria Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky
Brazil Universidade de São Paulo
Canada Concordia University
  McGill University
  Simon Fraser University
  Université de Montréal
  University of Toronto
Chile Universidad de Chile
China Renmin University
France L'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Georgia Free University of Tbilisi
  Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University
Germany Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
  Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
  Technische Universität Dresden
  Universität Bayreuth
  Universität Bonn
  Universität des Saarlandes
  Universität Heidelberg
  Universität Leipzig
Hungary Eötvös Loránd University
Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Tel Aviv University
Japan Doshisha University
  Kobe University
  Ritsumeikan University
  Tokyo University for Foreign Studies
  University of Tsukuba
  Waseda University
Kazakhstan Kazakh Ablai Khan University
Latvia University of Latvia
Lithuania Vilnius University
Luxembourg Université du Luxembourg
Mexico Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
New Zealand University of Otago
Norway University of Oslo
Peru Universidad de Lima
Russia Lomonosov Moscow State University
  St. Petersburg State University
Serbia University of Belgrade
Singapore Nanyang Technological University
Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava
  Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
Slovenia University of Ljubljana
South Africa University of Pretoria
South Korea Hankuk University for Foreign Studies
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  Korea University
  Kyung Hee University
  Seoul National University
  Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
Switzerland Universität Basel
Taiwan Tamkang University
Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
USA Kansas State University
  North Carolina State University
  State University of New York at New Paltz
  University of New Orleans
  University of Oregon
  University of St. Thomas
  University of Washington
Vietnam Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Contact

For more information contact Exchange Program Coordinator: Ms Marie Stanovská, email: studyabroad@fsv.cuni.cz.