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General Information 36 General Introduction to the ECTS Programme What is ECTS? ECTS stands for the European Credit Transfer System. It was developed by the Commission of the European Union under the ERASMUS Programme (European Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another. ECTS is a decentralised system based upon the principle of mutual trust and confidence between the participating institutions. The core elements of ECTS are: – Information on lectures available and student achievements – Mutual agreement between the partner institutions and the students – The use of ECTS Credits to indicate student workload These principles are set to reinforce the mutual confidence. What does ECTS offer to the student? Students participating in the ECTS will receive full credit for all academic work successfully carried out at any of the ECTS partner institutions and they will be able to transfer these academic Credits from one participating institution to another on the basis of prior agreement between the institutions involved. All students of the participating programmes who want to take part in ECTS may do so if their institution agrees and the respective places are still available. Students who want to spend one semester or more abroad will have to recognize that they are offered a relevant study programme that is similar to their own. They also will look for a full academic recognition that enables the continuation and completion of their studies at the home institution. ECTS guarantees this academic recognition of the study achievements made abroad. ECTS enables the student to regular courses. They therefore participate equally in the university life and study programme offered at the guest institution. Most ECTS students will go to one particular partner institution within the EU Member States, study there for a certain time and then continue their studies at their home institution. Some may also decide to stay at the partner institution, possibly to gain a degree there. Others may proceed to a third institution to continue their studies. In each of these cases, students will be required to comply with the legal and institutional requirements of the country and institution where they pursue their degree. When the students return to their home institution and have successfully completed the study programme previously agreed upon between the home and the host institution, credit transfer will take place at the home institution without any loss of time or credit. If, on the other hand, the students decide to stay at the partner institution and pursue a degree there, they may have to adapt their studies due to the legal, institutional and departmental rules in the host country, institution and department.
Students selected by each institution to participate in the ECTS may be awarded a student mobility grant if they fulfil the general conditions of eligibility for the ERASMUS grant. The conditions in survey: – Students must be citizens of one of the EU Member States or citizens of the EFTA countries (or recognised by one of the EU Member States or one EFTA country as having an official status of refugee or stateless person or permanent resident); as for the EFTA nationals, students will be eligible provided they are moving within framework of ERASMUS from the respective EFTA home country to an EU Member State. – The students shall not be required to pay tuition fees at the host institution; the students may, however, be required to pay their normal tuition fees to the home institution during the study period abroad. – The national grant/loan to which a student may be entitled for study at his or her institution may be discontinued, interrupted or reduced while the student is studying in another Member State during the study period abroad. and entitled to an ERASMUS grant – One study period abroad should not last less than three months or more than one year. ECTS Credits The courses are not only described in terms of content but also by adding Credits. These Credits represent the student workload for the respective course and therefore not only refer to the number of lectures per week. Simultaneously, they reflect the quantity of work each course requires in relation to the quantity of work required to complete a full year of study at the University of Applied Sciences. The workload encompasses lectures, practical placements, seminars, self-study – in the library or at home – and examinations or other assessment activities. Therefore, ECTS Credits express a relative value. In ECTS, usually 60 Credits are given for a year of study, i.e. 30 Credits per semester. The participating higher education institutions subdivide the Credits for the various courses dependent on the workload required to complete them. Practical placements and mandatory optional subjects which are part of the studies also receive Credits. It is important that no special courses are set up for ECTS purposes, but that all ECTS courses are mainstream courses of the participating institutions as followed by home students under normal regulations. Credits are awarded only when the course has been completed and all required examinations have been successfully taken. ECTS Evaluation Table Examination results and other assessments are usually marked and graded. Due to the existence of the different European grading systems, the ECTS Evaluation table was developed as a means to transfer the respective marks and grades into their own system. This table adds some information, but does not replace the grades earned at the home institution. The individual higher education institution decides upon transferring the ECTS Evaluation table into its own grading system. Please, see above on page 55. General Information 37
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