Erasmus studies

To apply for a place in the single call for the Erasmus+ program and the UAB Exchange Programme, you must complete the electronic application that you will find at: http://sia.uab.cat/, section Students, Application and consultation OUT exchange (Outgoing Students).

Here you can find an explanatory video on how to apply and add documents.

Students will be able to choose between a maximum of 8 possible destinations and a minimum of 1 from the two programs. The duration options will be: annual, semester or semester if the annual stays have been sold out.

The electronic application will be available during the period in which the call is open.

The documentation justifying the accreditation of the language level must be enclosed in the electronic application within the deadline for the opening of the call.

Each student may submit only one electronic application for this call. Within the application, you can apply for places in both programs without distinction.

Only in the event that a student wants to do two stays, an Erasmus+ semester stay and a UAB Exchange Program semester stay during the same academic year, they will need to make two requests: one request corresponding to the mobility of the first semester in the one that can only choose destinations from a single program (Erasmus+ or UAB Exchange Programme) and a second application corresponding to the second semester in which only destinations from the other program can be chosen. It will only be possible to obtain two places in two different programs if the stays are semester-long and are carried out consecutively during the same academic year, that is, if there are no overlaps in the periods of stay.

For students who have submitted an application and have not obtained a place in the first resolution, or students who have obtained a place and have renounced it, a second application period is planned, in which they can opt to the places that have become vacant.
Acceptance or resignation of the position

The Vice-Rector's Office for International Relations will make public the decision on the allocation of places and the waiting list. The final award will always depend on acceptance by the destination university.

Students to whom a place has been allocated must make a formal acceptance or resignation, within the terms and form required in the call. If the student does not accept or does not expressly resign, it will automatically be understood as a resignation, without the possibility of being able to opt for any other destination.

Those students who resign from their position after the established date must explain the reasons for their resignation in writing to the person responsible for exchanges at their school. The center coordinator will assess whether the resignation is considered justified or not. Unjustified withdrawals, as well as non-compliance with the requirements by the student at any time during the process, will be penalized so that any exchange requests that may be made in the future will be relegated to the last place from the list of applicants.

The award of a place does not necessarily imply the award of a scholarship.

Additional assessment for knowledge of foreign languages

Language level will count up to a maximum of 2 points during the selection process when grading submitted applications. Students who wish to obtain an additional assessment for language knowledge will need to present supporting certifications qualified in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

If they do not have certifications or if the certifications are not qualified according to the MECR, students can take an exam at the UAB Language Service, which issues a certificate attesting to language skills in English, French, German or Italian. The schedule for taking the tests is published on the website of the Language Service and on the UAB website, in the English exams section.

This documentation must be attached to the application within the deadline for opening the call (except in the case of students taking exams organized by the Language Service, the results of which will be sent directly to the International Relations Area and the centers). Students of degrees taught at the UAB in the vehicular language in which mobility will take place (see the list approved by the Academic Affairs Committee on 26.11.2015) who have passed 50% of the course credits, they will get the extra 2 points.

In the event that the university requires it, the selected person must present the supporting documentation of the required language level. This documentation must be delivered after the selection in the established terms and form.

Please find the list of Erasmus destinations in the Catalan version of the website.

IMPORTANT: It is the student's responsibility to check the requirements on knowledge of the language of instruction, subjects that can be taken, minimum number of ECTS or other requirements on the website of the destination university.

ERASMUS+ GRANTS

The SEPIE (Servicio Español para la Internacionalización de la Educación) is the entity that distributes the economic funds from the European Union and the MEFP (Ministry of Education and Vocational Training) to receive the students participating in the Erasmus+ program. The grants will be awarded according to the same criteria used during the selection process until they cover all the funds awarded. Students with an assigned place do not have to carry out any procedure expressly in order to receive the basic and/or additional grant, they only have to apply for the Banco de Santander grants and the MOBINT grant at AGAUR.

In order to guarantee the agility in the payment of the grants, it is recommended that you attach a “Certificate of ownership of the bank account” to the Personal Area of the SIA. The beneficiary students will receive the grant from the Erasmus+ program by bank transfer in two payments: the first, after leaving, for an approximate amount of 70% of the total awarded. To access the first payment you must have completed the following steps: Submit the original grant agreement signed digitally; fill in the Banking Data section in the sigm' application; submit the Certificate of Arrival and present the digitally signed “Declaration of Responsibility/Journey”. All 4 steps are essential to receive the payment, you will find more information on how to take each step in the Informative Dossier.

The second payment, with the remaining amount, will be made when the student has returned and has carried out the following procedures: provide the original Certificate of stay signed by the host university (where the start and end dates of the stay must also be clearly stated: day, month and year) and fill in the report on the stay carried out through the application of the CE (Beneficiary Module).

For the month of start and end of stay, which are usually not full months, the day of return and return will be taken into account and will be paid proportionally to the days of real stay of those months (calculating according to that one month is equal to 30 days).

All those students who, on 30 September of the course following their stay, have not submitted the required documentation, will be given the waiver of the grant and, therefore, will be required to refund the amount paid to them. Failure to submit the documentation within the established period will imply the return of all the amounts paid.

The decision to award places for the destination of the call does not necessarily imply the granting of an economic aid that will depend on the approval of the budgets allocated to the programs by the different institutions involved. In the event that there are no grants for all students with a place awarded, priority will be given to the mobility of the UAB's own centres, granting a maximum of 10% of the grants to students from affiliated centres. In the event that there are no grants for all students, 85% of the grants for Erasmus+ mobility calls will go to undergraduate students, 10% to master's students and 5% to doctoral students. The rest of the students who do a mobility stay with the Erasmus+ program will be able to do so in the "zero scholarship" modality without financial endowment.

Grants - Assets of grants (Single support and travel aid) according to funding funds (Erasmus+ project) and destination countries:

• Grants with funds from the Erasmus KA131 project 2023:

  Individual support with funds from the 2023 Erasmus KA131 project:

Grants from the Erasmus KA131 project of 2024:

• Individual support with funds from the Erasmus KA131 project of 2024

Switzerland is outside the Erasmus+ programme, but the places agreed with higher education institutions in that country will be offered during this call. People who obtain a place in a destination in Switzerland will not be able to receive financial aid from the European Union, and they will have to process the financing directly with the Swiss government (Swiss-European Mobility Programme): https://www.movetia.ch/en/programmes/international/swiss-programme-for-erasmus/higher-education/mobility

• Travel aid with project funds Erasmus KA131 de 2024:

(*) Additional help for students with fewer opportunities for all projects:

If you meet any of the requirements, it is necessary to accredit it in advance at Sigma.

• Students with fewer opportunities are those who meet one of these criteria:
• Have benefited from a scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, from a scholarship to do university studies and other higher studies granted by the Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Country, during the previous year or during the current course of the call. 
• Be a refugee or a person with the right to subsidiary protection or have submitted an application for international protection in Spain.
• Have recognized and qualified a disability equal to or greater than 33% and prove it.
• Have other documentable health problems, including serious diseases, chronic diseases or any other situation related to physical or mental health that hinders participation in mobility.
• To have exemption from fees for one of the following reasons: large family, victims of gender-based violence and victims of terrorism during the course in which the stay takes place.
• To have exemption from fees for one of the following reasons: Finestreta grants, Salari-Ítaca grants.
• Have any of these other situations and prove it: receive the minimum vital income or minimum income of insertion, receive the provision of orphanage, have a social services report that proves the risk of social exclusion situation of the family unit, have a certificate of dependency or participants with dependent persons in charge, students with full-time employment contracts and/or single-parent family.

(**)Complementary amount to the individual support for ecological displacement The payment of this complementary amount will be made at the end of the exchange stay once the Certificate of stay has been provided. If you have made an ecological trip on the way back and/or on the return of your exchange stay, you will have to fill in this  form and attach the signed declaration. It is considered ecological trip the one made by train, bus or shared car.

SANTANDER ERASMUS SCHOLARSHIPS

For students from their own centers and from the FUAB Training School. Banco Santander offered for the academic year 2024/25 complementary scholarships to Erasmus+ scholarships. The UAB has obtained a total of 50 grants:

• 2 scholarships of €1000
• 48 scholarships of €500

These scholarships will be assigned according to the criteria established by Banco Santander, according to academic criteria. No stays less than 2 months long will be financed and students must register within the period indicated in www.becas-santander.com.

The scholarships will be aimed at students with the best participation grade, prioritizing the scholarships of the highest amount for students who had received a general grant of the Ministry the previous year and / or who legally accredit a disability equal to or greater than 33%.

The scholarships of more than €500 will be paid in two terms: to access the first payment of 70% of the total of the scholarship, it will be necessary to have sent two copies signed of the grant agreement, to have completed the banking data section in the SIGMA application with the IBAN of Banco de Santander, to have delivered the arrival certificate and signed the Declaration of responsibility. All 4 steps are essential to receive the payment. The second payment will be the remaining 30%, and will be made on the return of the student once he has presented the certificate of stay.

The scholarships of amount equal to or less than €500 will be paid in a single period: to access the payment of 100% of the total of the scholarship, it will be necessary to have sent two copies signed of the grant agreement, to have completed the banking data section in the SIGMA application with the IBAN of Banco de Santander, to have delivered the arrival certificate and signed the Declaration of responsibility. All 4 steps are essential to receive the payment. However, it is mandatory on the return of the student to present the certificate of stay.

MOBINT GRANT – AGAUR

The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) announces grants for international mobility every year. In previous calls, the amount was €200 per month with a maximum of 6 months.
More information at agaur.gencat.cat, “grants and grants” section.
Interested parties must submit the application directly to the AGAUR within the deadlines established by that agency.

OTHER COMPLEMENTARY GRANTS

There are other grants that grant Countries, Autonomous Communities, Regional Councils, Foundations, etc. These grants are compatible with the rest of the aforementioned grants.

COMPATIBILITY OF THE ERASMUS+ GRANT WITH OTHER GRANTS 

If you receive the unemployment benefit or other grants for exchange stays abroad, contact the body that grants the financial aid to determine whether or not it is compatible with the Erasmus+ grant. If it is not, participation in the Erasmus+ program would be done without receiving financial aid, in the modality of zero scholarship.

The Spanish agency for Erasmus+ SEPIE offers institutions and organizations participating in the Erasmus+ program specific support on topics related to inclusion (special needs, refugees, people with less resources), which you will find in this link. In this document you will find more information.

Participants, students and teaching and administrative staff, will be able to present documentation to receive additional mobility aid. Inclusion support is financial support to cover additional costs for students and staff with fewer opportunities who participate in mobility activities of the Erasmus+ program. To access this support, participants must have a recognized and legally qualified disability of a degree equal to or greater than 33%, or suffer from physical, mental or health problems duly certified through the corresponding medical certification, as well as comply with the rest of admissibility criteria established in the Program.

The amount will cover 100% of the actual subsidized costs that are requested, directly related to your disability, provided that they are not covered through the budgetary categories of "travel" (if applicable) and "individual support", including the additional aid for students with fewer opportunities. (Among the subsidized expenses are the following: special/adapted transportation of the participant in the host country, escorts, professional services, preparatory visits and other expenses.)

Request the additional allowance using this form, for the Erasmus KA131 program.

All participants who request "Apoyo a la inclusión" based on actual costs will have to prove their degree of disability and documentably justify to the institution of higher education of origin or coordinator of the mobility consortium the actual expenses corresponding to the amount of the additional aid received .

Check the following infographic with all the information and links to know what to do with your place.

Workshops and language courses for students Erasmus OUT "Llengua per a marxar d'Erasmus"

Call 2025/26

• Information Call for International Mobility UAB Estudis 2025/2026 
• Call for the Language Service for mobility students

On 13 December 2024, the resolution of the call for international mobility for the academic year 2025/26 is published. 

Call 2024/25

Information of the Call for Studies 2024–2025

On December 13, 2023 the first resolution of the call for international mobility for the academic year 2024/25 is published.

On January 22, 2024, the final resolution of the call for international mobility for the academic year 2024/25 is published.

On April 16, 2024, the 1st extraordinary resolution for the international mobility call for Academic Year 2024/25 is published.

On June 12, 2024, the 2nd extraordinary resolution for the reassignment of places in the international mobility call for the academic year 2024/25 is published.

On July 3, 2024 the resolution of mobility aids "Becas Santander Erasmus" 2024/2025 is published.

On July 23, 2024, the resolution of mobility aids Erasmus+ 2024/2025 is published.

On October 14, 2024, the 3rd extraordinary resolution for the reassignment of places in the international mobility call for the academic year 2024/25 is published.

On 26 November 2024, the reassignment of mobility grants for the academic year 2024/25 is published.

On 5 December 2024, the  fix of the reassignment of mobility grants for the academic year 2024/25.

Instructions for free language exam

• Erasmus General Information
• Erasmus Economic Grants
• Erasmus Academic Procedures
• Erasmus Administrative Procedures

 Check the following document "Llengua per a marxar d'Erasmus".

Resolution of 11 January 2024, which reassigns grants from EU and UAB funds, can be consulted at this link.

The international mobility call for the 2023-2024 academic year will be open from October 24 to November 7, 2022. You can consult the map of destinations and updated information on the international mobility call.

You can also consult the Presentation of the International Relations Department or the Presentation of the ECIU University.

You can check the Erasmus+ Program dossier.

You can check the Conditions of the Erasmus+ Grant Agreement for students with assistance of the KA131 2022 project.

You can check the Conditions of the Erasmus+ Grant Agreement for students with assistance of the KA131 2023 project.

Resolution of 30 October 2023, which reassigns grants from EU and UAB funds, that you can check in this link.

On October 13, 2023 the publication of the Third extraordinary resolution Erasmus+ Programme modality studies and UAB Exchange Programme course 2023/2024

Resolution of 12 September 2023, reassigning grants from the EU and the UAB, that you can check in this link.

Resolution of 14 July 2023, for which the grants from European Union funds, KA131 2022 and 2023 projects are awarded, co-financed by the Ministry of Universities to students with a degree within the framework of the Erasmus+, modalidad Estudios, 2023-24 academic year

On June 16, 2023 the publication of the Second extraordinary resolution Erasmus+ modalidad Estudios and UAB Exchange Programme academic year 2023/2024

Resolution of June 15, 2023 of the mobility aids "Santander Erasmus Scholarships" 2023/2024

You can ckech this information in the link of the resolution of mobility grants "Santander Erasmus Scholarships" 2023/2024

On April 17, 2023, the publication of the First resolution Extraordinary Erasmus + modalidad Estudios y UAB Exchange Programme 2023/2024

On January 20, 2023, the final decision on the call for international mobility for the 2023/24 academic year will be published

On December 12, 2022, the resolution of the call for international mobility for the 2023/24 academic year will be published.