Would you like to combine studying with spending time abroad? Besides studying abroad, there are various ways to spend time in another country – such as internships, language courses, writing your dissertation, subject-specific courses and study trips. Read more about your options here and find the right scholarship form for you.
An internship abroad offers many valuable experiences: discover new job prospects, make contacts with international colleagues and enhance your professional and language skills! Internships are already part of some degree programmes. You can take a leave semester for a voluntary internship. There is all sorts of funding available for internships abroad: Erasmus+, PROMOS and other scholarships.
It is often possible to organise an internship abroad faster than studying in another country. Nevertheless, make sure you seek advice from the International Centre well in advance!
Erasmus+ traineeship in Europe
Erasmus+ funds voluntary and mandatory traineeships abroad.
- You can receive Erasmus+ funding several times in each study cycle (bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, doctoral studies) and in any degree programme
- You must be enrolled at our university for a degree or doctorate
- Participation in the Erasmus+ programme is possible regardless of your nationality
- You choose the traineeship period yourself
You have successfully organised a traineeship at an organisation in one of the 27 EU states or in another possible European non-EU state (see “Funding – Funding by destination country” further down this page).
- This traineeship lasts at least two calendar months.
- Traineeships at EU institutions and institutions that conduct EU programmes are ineligible for Erasmus+ funding. There are alternative funding programmes for traineeships at these institutions – for example, the DAAD’s short-term scholarships.
- Traineeships that only involve general services to clients, order processing, data entry or only general office work are also ineligible for funding.
- In terms of workload, in principle the participants have to work full time, based on their receiving organisation’s working time.
Erasmus+ funds your traineeship plans:
- for the entire duration of the traineeship with Erasmus+ status, which many internship organisations require as a prerequisite (with a maximum of 12 months of funding);
- depending on duration and destination country, with financial support as a grant for additional costs incurred abroad (with a maximum of 5 months of financial support).
A traineeship must last at least 2 calendar months and can last a maximum of 12 funding months (360 days).
The Erasmus+ mobility quota for each student comprises 12 funding months per study cycle (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral studies). Multiple study stays abroad can also be funded within this.
- Exception: mobility quota in state examination and diploma programmes comprises a maximum of 24 months of funding
- Traineeship stays abroad can also be funded within the mobility quota within 12 months of completing your studies
Funding for traineeship ending before 31 July 2023
Funding according to destination country
Country group | Funding |
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Country group 1: | €600/month |
Country group 2: | €540/month |
Country group 3: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey | €480/month |
Funding for traineeship ending after 31 July 2023
Generally speaking, you will receive Erasmus+ status if traineeship funding is approved. The amount of additional Erasmus+ financial support covers part of the traineeship and depends on the destination country and duration.
Our university usually supports Erasmus+ traineeships for a duration of one semester. Since our total budget is limited, 5 monthly funding rates are available as the maximum financial support (€3,750).
Funding according to destination country
Country group | Funding |
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Country group 1: | €750/month |
Country group 2: | €690/month |
Country group 3: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey | €640/month |
Funding according to duration
An Erasmus+ traineeship can, for example, be financially supported by Leipzig University up to a duration of one semester in a group 1 country with a maximum of €3,750.
Duration of stay | Possible number of months of funding |
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equal to 2 calendar months up to more than 3.5 months of funding | 2 |
more than 3.5 to 4.5 months of funding | 3 |
more than 4.5 to 5.5 months of funding | 4 |
more than 5.5 to 12 months of funding | 5 |
Students receiving Erasmus+ financial support can apply for the following:
- Green Travel top-up amount
- Top-up amount for those with fewer opportunities
- Disability or chronic illness
- Study abroad with child(ren)
- Employment
- First academic generation
This requires at least a Declaration of Honour regarding the reason for the top-up amount. This declaration is submitted with your signed registration for the study stay abroad. Top-up amounts cannot be applied for retroactively.
However, you must provide evidence of the reasons you need the top-up. You must keep this evidence for a period of up to 6 years after the end of your stay and present it to the International Centre.
No top-up amounts are available for Erasmus+ exchanges with just the Erasmus+ status, such as “zero grant”.
You will receive information about your funding through the Erasmus+ Grant Agreement. This contains the detailed funding conditions and the Grant Notification on the total amount of financial support, including any top-up amounts.
Green travel top-up amount
If you use low-emission forms of transport or a carpool for at least 50 percent of your round trip, you are also eligible for a one-time top-up amount of €50. If the journey takes longer than a full day, a maximum of four additional days can be financially supported with the country groups’ corresponding daily funding rate. Bus and train are considered to be low-emission forms of transport. Travelling by plane or ship is not considered environmentally friendly.
You must provide the following evidence:
- generally: tickets and/or receipts that clearly verify your name, the date and the means of transport;
- for carpooling: receipts for booking or informal declaration by the person driving the vehicle, fuel receipt at the destination or screenshot of the route using a suitable tracking app with date information;
- for cycling: screenshots of the route using a suitable tracking app with date information;
- for additional days of travel: evidence for use of transport clearly demonstrates a duration of more than one day.
Top-up amount for those with fewer opportunities in long-term or short-term mobility
This top-up amount is aimed at those with fewer opportunities in long-term or short-term mobility so that they can participate in a study stay abroad. If approved, you will receive financial support of €250 per month if one of the following reasons applies:
Disability or chronic health problems
You have a degree of disability of 20 or more or a chronic illness (see the list provided by the Robert-Koch-Institute), which means that you will have additional financial costs to cover abroad.
You must provide the following evidence:
- Disability: disability card or notice from the state social welfare office
- Chronic health problems: medical certificate confirming that additional financial costs will be incurred abroad because of chronic health problems
Alternatively, an application for real cost compensation can be submitted to the NA DAAD (document only available in German).
Study stay abroad with own child(ren)
Your own child(ren) will be accompanying you on your study stay abroad. Double funding for a child is excluded if both parents take part in the study stay abroad. If there are two or more children, each parent can receive a top-up amount.
You must provide the following evidence:
- Birth certificate and travel documents for child/children’s round trip
- If applicable, confirmation of being registered at a child care or educational institution
- If applicable, confirmation of joint accommodation abroad through a tenancy agreement
Alternatively, an application for real cost compensation can be submitted to the NA DAAD (document only available in German).
Employment of students
A student’s previous employment of at least six continuous months must be terminated or paused due to their study stay abroad. The end of employment must be no earlier than 3 months before the start of the internship. Monthly net earnings must be between €450 and €850. In the case of several sources of income, the average per month applies. Exclusions: professional self-employment or a grant received during the study stay abroad (not Bafög support) or a traineeship allowance of €300 or more per month.
You must provide the following evidence:
- Pay slips or tax return
First generation in the family to access higher education
The parent(s) or caregiver(s) do(es) not hold an academic degree in Germany (a list can be found at the and the ).
Parents or caregivers do not hold a degree in Germany that is considered academic (a list can be found from the Higher Education Compass and the German Accreditation Council). Qualifications obtained abroad are considered non-academic in the country concerned. If the qualification was gained in a country that has changed to another form of government, the date of the qualification is used for the evaluation.
If you want caregivers other than your parents to be taken into consideration, they should have had a continuous relationship with you for several years up to the start of your academic education. If only one parent or caregiver is available or familiar with you, then only this one person will be considered for the verification.
Exceptions are study stays abroad during which you receive a grant (not Bafög support) or a traineeship allowance of €300 or more per month.
You must provide the following evidence:
- Declaration of Honour from the parent(s) or caregiver(s), which states their highest level of qualifications
Please apply for Erasmus+ funding at least three months before you plan to start your traineeship (deadline). To do so, you need take the following steps:
- Online registration
The Online Registration for Erasmus+ mobility takes place with your university login. At the end, you have to send the completed registration electronically. Please also submit the printed original registration, signed by hand, to the International Centre - Certificate of enrolment
Upload any certificate(s) of enrolment for the complete relevant traineeship period directly as part of the Online Registration or submit them by email, if necessary - Traineeship agreement
Fill out the traineeship agreement digitally. Sign it and have the person responsible for your subject and the traineeship organisation sign it as well. Please upload the complete and signed traineeship agreement as a PDF document directly as part of the Online Registration. You can also send it to the International Centre by email - Erasmus+ Grant Agreement (submission after receipt, before the start of your study stay abroad)
Your submitted registration will be checked at the International Centre.
You will then receive an email with a password-protected link to online storage. There you will receive your Erasmus+ Grant Agreement, including the Grant Notification regarding your provisional Erasmus+ financial support.
Please read the Erasmus+ funding conditions carefully before signing the agreement. You agree to these conditions by signing the Grant Agreement. Please hand in the signed original of the Erasmus+ Grant Agreement to the International Centre. Please keep a copy of the document in your records.
The usual requirement to take the online language test via Online Language Support (OLS) is suspended for WiSe 2023/24. We still recommend that you take a language test via OLS. Please create an account at EU Academy for this purpose.
If you are a native speaker or the required language is not offered by the OLS system, you are not required to participate. The OLS test is not a valid language certificate.
Please have your traineeship organisation confirm the start of your traineeship (including name, exact start date). This should be done informally by email within four weeks of the official start of the traineeship. If this is not done despite reminders from the International Centre, you will have to pay back Erasmus+ financial support that you have received.
Please inform the International Centre immediately by email if you would like to shorten or extend your traineeship.
- If your traineeship is shortened, you may have to pay back part of your Erasmus+ financial support. If your stay is shorter than the minimum duration of two months, you will have to pay back the full amount received
- You may be able to extend your stay if you still have funding months in your Erasmus+ monthly quota and the end of your traineeship is before 31 July 2023
You must notify us of any extension of the traineeship of less than one month by e--mail. Extensions of more than one month must be applied for with an amendment agreement to the original traineeship agreement. Depending on the change, further documents may have to be submitted or amended if necessary. You will be informed about this separately.
You can use this Erasmus+ option for a full traineeship stay in a time frame of 12 months directly after completing your degree and only if you have not yet used up all of your Erasmus+ mobility quota. To do so, you must declare your intention to do an internship before you are removed from the student register if your traineeship is more than three months away and you do not yet have an traineeship agreement. The date of your removal from the student register means that the letter of intent and completion of the online registration will not be possible and, therefore, neither will the option of having your graduate traineeship funded by Erasmus+. The deadline of three months before the start of the traineeship for submitting the registration and the traineeship agreement also applies here.
We need the following from you before you complete your studies:
- The original letter of intent signed by the person responsible for Erasmus+ for your subject
- Certificate of enrolment at Leipzig University
- Online registration
We need the following from you after you complete your studies:
- The certificate showing that you have been removed from the student register
- Certificate of successful completion of your studies (e.g. copy of certificate)
A traineeship abroad at organisations in the United Kingdom is still possible with Erasmus+ funding. It is possible to be awarded Erasmus+ status, i.e. zero grant, in all degree programmes. However, a limited budget is available to our university, with which only compulsory traineeships that have to be completed in English-speaking countries can be financially supported. In addition to the independent organisation of the traineeship, further requirements for the United Kingdom must be taken into account.
The following documents are required to complete your Erasmus+ traineeship:
- Traineeship certificate
Have the traineeship certificate filled out by your organisation and submit the scanned confirmation to the International Centre by email no later than four weeks after your traineeship has ended. The document may be issued on the last day of the traineeship at the earliest - Erasmus+ participation report (EU Survey)
Your Erasmus+ participation report gives other students specific information about your traineeship organisation and helps others with their preparation. You will usually receive an automatically generated email from the sender “EU Survey” after your stay (please also check your spam folder). At the moment, EU database functionality is not yet completely available. Therefore, this participation report is currently not applicable - Please submit your Erasmus Story to motivate other students with your experiences If there is no EU Survey, using the Erasmus Story as an alternative is particularly relevant
Traineeship in uncertain times
Have you planned a stay abroad but certain circumstances (e.g. situation in the destination country) have left you uncertain as to whether you want to or are able to do so? Then please note the following information.
Please always follow the provisions and instructions of your host institution regarding entry, e.g. quarantine regulations or security precautions.
Please stick to cost-neutral planning for your study stay abroad for as long as possible.
We recommend:
- waiting as long as possible to book travel tickets, rent a flat in the destination country or similar;
- taking out travel cancellation insurance and health insurance during your stay. Please seek advice on this from your health insurance provider;
- keeping the option of continuing your studies at our university open for as long as possible;
- regularly keeping on top of all information on the host institution’s websites and to subscribing to any newsletters offered there;
- staying in contact with those responsible for your department at our university and any contact persons at the host institution;
- meeting any deadlines set.
Please inform your Erasmus+ coordinator, your contact person at the host institution and the International Centre immediately by email.
PROMOS Internships Worldwide
The PROMOS scholarship is a scholarship program funded by the DAAD to support stays abroad outside the Erasmus+ funding region that cannot be funded through other scholarship programs. The program funds internships abroad with a minimum duration of eight weeks for a maximum of 4 months of the planned stay. PROMOS also funds internships if you have already completely exhausted your Erasmus+ allowance.
The PROMOS scholarship is awarded on a merit basis according to the availability of funds.
For students with foreign citizenship, funding for stays abroad in the respective home countries is excluded.
The programme can also be used to support periods of study, dissertations and study trips.
You are eligible to apply for a PROMOS-Scholarship when are fully enrolled and are pursuing your degree at our university:
- Bachelor's degree: from the 3rd semester,
- Master's degree: from 1st semester, at least already one semester of attendance at the University of Leipzig when studying in an international Master's programme.
- Doctoral candidates are not eligible for funding under this programme.
Your planned internship
- will take place outside the Erasmus+ eligible region,
- has a minimum duration of eight weeks full-time
- is remunerated with a maximum of 500 EUR and
- is not eligible for funding through other DAAD programs (see “Alternative Scholarships for Internships abroad”).
PROMOS finances internships abroad of with a minimum duration of eight weeks for a maximum of four months. The respective grant rates depend on the country of destination. The scholarship comprises a monthly grant and a one-off travel allowance.
PROMOS scholarships are tied to calendar years, which means that in the case of stays abroad spanning several years, funding is only possible until 28 February of the following year.
Students with a degree of disability (“GdB”) of at least 50 or a chronic illness can apply for special funding from the DAAD together with the International Centre. The special funding can be paid in addition to the regular grant rates. Please contact the PROMOS project coordinator by email early on for further information and to apply.
You can combine a PROMOS scholarship with AuslandsBAföG (International BAföG).
There are two annual application periods for PROMOS scholarships:
- For stays commencing between January and June:
1 November–1 December of the previous year - For stays commencing between July and December:
1 May–1 June
PROMOS scholarship applications submitted outside the application deadlines will not be accepted.
Online Application
Please submit your application online only. Register with your university login via the online portal. Enter your information in the online application and upload the following documents:
- CV in tabular form
- Certificate(s) of enrolment
Please upload your enrolment certificate(s) from Leipzig University for the entire period of your stay abroad. If you do not yet have the enrolment certificate for the following semester, first submit your enrolment certificate for the current semester. You must then submit the next certificate as soon as you have it (without being asked). You do not need to provide your master data sheet or your BAföG certificate.
- Overview of grades
An overview of grades can be obtained from your AlmaWeb account or by contacting your subject’s examination office. You can only use the overview of grades from AlmaWeb if all your previous achievements have been recorded in full in the portal. If you are a first-semester master’s student, please also submit your bachelor’s certificate together with an overview of grades. If you are already enrolled in a higher semester on a master’s programme, we will require your current overview of grades in addition to your bachelor’s certificate with overview of grades.
- Describe the project
Please specify why you have chosen to complete an internship abroad and explain your choice of host institution. Describe the content and scope of the work (one to two pages).
- Language certificate for the working language/national language
You can receive a language certificate from one of the teachers at the Language Center after taking one of their language certification tests. The Language Center holds these tests regularly. Your school-leaving certificate does not count as proof of language proficiency.
- If you speak the language in question or are studying in that language, please contact a language teacher at your institute.
- If the working language at your receiving institution is German and no further foreign language skills are required, please submit the language certificate for English.
- If you can prove that you passed one of the standard tests within the last two years, you can use this instead of the language certificate.
- Native speakers do not require proof of knowledge of the native language.
Before your stay, you can attend a preparatory language course at our Language Center or take advantage of the language courses offered during your studies:
- SQ 13 – Key qualification module in Intercultural Communication
- Foreign language modules
- Autonomous foreign language learning modules
- Tandem language learning modules
- Proof of contact with the receiving institution/internship contract
You will need a letter from the receiving institution indicating the location, the nature and scope of your work, the duration of your internship, remuneration, and the contact details of the receiving institution.
Before your stay, you can attend a preparatory language course at our Language Center or take advantage of the language courses offered during your studies:
After checking that your application is complete, we will send you a personal confirmation message.
Review of Your Application and Nomination
Your complete application will be reviewed by two subject-specific appraisers. The following selection criteria and assessment weightings are taken into account:
- Subject-specific qualification and personal suitability (50%)
- Relevance of the planned stay in relation studies completed so far (30%)
- Language skills necessary to carry out the stay (20%)
Applicants will be notified by email of whether they have been nominated for a PROMOS scholarship approximately six weeks after the application deadline.
Alternative Scholarships for Internships Abroad
Besides Erasmus+ and PROMOS, there are numerous alternative scholarships for internships abroad that you can apply for. Take a look!
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Archaeology
Internships with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) -
Economics and management science
AIESEC Global Talent
New Kibbutz -
Humanities
at institutes of the Max Weber Foundation (Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute) abroad -
Computer science
AIESEC Global Talent -
Engineering and natural sciences
IAESTE specialist internships
RISE Worldwide research internships
Vulcanus in Japan -
Teacher training degrees
Partner schools around the world
PAD language assistant programme
DAAD Lehramt.International (short-term grants)
DAAD Lehramt.International (for teacher training graduates) -
Medicine
Research internships, university hospitals
Internships in development cooperation
Deutscher Famulantenaustausch (bvmd)
- AIESEC
Global volunteering projects - ASA
for working and studying in Africa, Latin America, Asia and South Eastern Europe - DAAD
Carlo Schmid Programme: Internships in international organisations
Programmes for short-term scholarships and travel expense grants - DFJW (Franco-German Youth Office)
Scholarships for study-related internships in France - DPJW (German-Polish Youth Office)
Scholarships for internships in Poland - German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Scholarships for internships in China
Finding the right internship takes a good deal of initiative. Very few programmes offer both scholarships and internships. To help you look in the right place, we’ve put together an overview of subject-specific programmes and internship portals. Good luck with your search!
- AIESEC
Volunteering and internships - Arbeitskreis Lernen und Helfen in Übersee e.V.
- Arqus Alliance Internships
- Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Brussels
Student internships in Brussels - Bundesverband der Pharmaziestudierenden
- Campusjäger
Job and internship portal by students, for students - Career Centre at Leipzig University - Job portal
- College Council
Internship portal for the US and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand - Deutsch als Fremdsprache
Internship portal run by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung e.V.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- DFJW Job portal
- Erasmus Student Network
- European Law Students’ Association (ELSA)
Arrangement of paid internships for aspiring lawyers (partial funding via Erasmus+ internship possible) - European Youth Portal
- German-Canadian Association
- German-Japanese Association of Jurists
- Goethe-Institut
- iAgora
- International Placement Service (ZAV) of the Federal Employment Agency
- Internship portal at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Job portal at Leipzig University’s Career Centre
- KOPRA
- studieren weltweit
- Worldwide Classroom
Dissertations, Language Courses, Subject-Specific Courses and More
Apart from studying or doing an internship in a foreign country, language courses, subject-specific courses and study trips can be a great opportunity to gain experience abroad. A language course can, for example, help you prepare well for an internship. You can also write your dissertation abroad or carry out research for it. A PROMOS scholarship can be used to fund some of these stays abroad.
Depending on the topic of your dissertation, it may be important for you to carry out research abroad. This could give you access to research fields that are not accessible here in Leipzig. You may also need material from foreign institutions that is of particular relevance to your work.
What financial support will I receive?
Fund your final thesis abroad with PROMOS or as part of an Erasmus+ internship.
PROMOS awards short-term scholarships for dissertations abroad with a minimum duration of eight weeks. The respective grant rates depend on the country of destination. The scholarship comprises a monthly grant and a one-off travel allowance.
Students with a degree of disability (“GdB”) of at least 50 or a chronic illness can apply for special funding from the DAAD together with the International Centre. The special funding can be paid in addition to the regular grant rates. Please contact the PROMOS project coordinator by email early on for further information and to apply.
For more details, please refer to our information on studying abroad and the PROMOS application information.
How do I apply for a PROMOS scholarship?
There are two application deadlines for PROMOS scholarships each year:
- for periods abroad commencing between January and June:
1 November–1 December of the previous year - for periods abroad commencing between July and December:
1 May–1 June
Please note that we are unable to accept applications for PROMOS scholarships submitted outside the application periods.
Applying online
To apply, please register via the online portal using your university login. Please only apply via the online portal.
Please enter your information in the online application and upload the following documents:
- CV in tabular form
- Certificate(s) of enrolment
Please upload your enrolment certificate(s) from Leipzig University for the entire period of your stay abroad. If you do not yet have the enrolment certificate for the following semester, first submit your enrolment certificate for the current semester. You must then submit the next certificate as soon as you have it (without being asked). You do not need to provide your master data sheet or your BAföG certificate. - Overview of grades
Please request this from your examination office. You can also submit a printout of the overview of your grades from AlmaWeb, provided it lists all of the credits you have earned so far. If you are already enrolled on a master’s programme, please also upload a copy of your bachelor’s certificate including a Transcript of Records. - Describe the project
Please explain why the success of your final thesis depends on your going abroad and include a project schedule for your time abroad (e. g. in a table). - Language certificate for the language of instruction/national language
You can receive a language certificate from one of the teachers at the Language Center after taking one of their language certification tests.- If you speak the language in question or are studying in that language, please contact a language teacher at your institute.
- If the language of instruction is German and no further foreign language skills are required, please submit the language certificate for English.
- If you can prove that you passed one of the standard tests within the last two years, you can use this instead of the language certificate.
- Native speakers do not require proof of knowledge of the native language.
Before your stay, you can attend a preparatory language course at our Language Center or take advantage of the language courses offered during your studies:
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Proof of contact/confirmation of supervision
We require information about the location of your host university and your supervisor abroad.
Thesis / student research projects that are not conducted at a higher education institution or company must have demonstrable unrestricted support from the department.
Our tip:
Our application information and checklist for PROMOS applications will help you make sure that you have completed all the necessary steps when applying.
After checking that your application is complete, we will send you a personal confirmation message.
Review of your application and nomination
Your complete application will be reviewed by two subject-specific appraisers. The following selection criteria and assessment weightings are taken into account:
- Subject-specific qualification and personal suitability (50 per cent)
- The relevance of the planned stay in relation to studies completed so far (30 per cent)
- Language skills necessary to carry out the stay (20 per cent).
Applicants will be notified by email of whether they have been nominated for a PROMOS scholarship approximately six weeks after the application deadline.
Taking a language course abroad is the perfect opportunity to significantly improve your language skills! Besides our language courses, it is possible to take courses at private language institutes or universities abroad.
Find Language Courses Abroad
The DAAD website provides a good introduction to this topic. There you can search for language courses at universities around the world.
Before your stay, you can attend a preparatory language course at our Language Center or take advantage of the language courses offered during your studies:
Examples of specialist courses are summer schools or workshops at a foreign host university. They usually last several days or a few weeks and deal with special projects or topics. These activities are often supplemented by local cultural programmes.
Find Specialist Courses and Summer Schools Abroad
Please contact us for information on current opportunities. In addition, many departments have noticeboards advertising such programmes.
- The DAAD’s Go East programme organises summer and winter schools in East-Central, South Eastern and Eastern Europe.
- Are you interested in going to Switzerland? Students of physics, computer science and engineering can apply to the CERN Summer Student Programme.
Before your stay, you can attend a preparatory language course at our Language Center or take advantage of the language courses offered during your studies:
This funding is not available for congress or lecture tours. For these, please check the DAAD website.
You can undertake a study trip abroad together with your fellow students. The whole trip must be accompanied by a professor. The study trip will focus on subject-related learning and give you an insight into the local culture. Study trips focus on getting to know students and other academics.
Financial support
Under PROMOS, a flat-rate allowance is available to support study trips by groups of at least five students and/or doctoral researchers accompanied by a professor.
Please note this information and our checklist for study trips abroad.
Applying for PROMOS funding
Applications for PROMOS grants for study trips can only be submitted by professors of our university. Please send all application documents as specified in the checklist as a single PDF file to Christine Seidemann.
The International Centre’s German-language app “entdecker – Abenteuer Ausland” supports students from Leipzig University before, during and even after their time abroad. Whether you head to another country to study, for an internship, or for a subject-related or language course, the “entdecker” app is your mobile companion for your adventures abroad. More information is available on the German entdecker website. You are welcome to download the app and start planning your time abroad.