Other international opportunities
Summer schools / winter schools
During summer it is possible to participate in a Summer/Winter School. This can be on a voluntary basis (not included in your curriculum), but it can also be accepted as an elective course provided that certain requirements are met.
You can propose a Summer School yourself. An overview of potential summer schools of can be found on this page. However, this does not mean that this Summer School will be accepted as an elective course automatically.
If you wish to have your Summer School accepted as an elective course, you can read the requirements in the Summer Schools regulations.
List of potential summerschools
- Leibniz University Hannover
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Oxford University
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
- University of Ljubljana
- Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (Funding opportunity through UGent)
- Imperial College Business School London
- ISCTE Business School Lisbon
- University of Southern Denmark
- Católica Porto Business School
- Bocconi University Milan
- Aarhus University
- Berkeley University of California
- HEC Paris
- Universidade da Coruña
- Charles University Prague
- The University of Queensland
- SUSI for students leaders
- National Chengchi University (2 tuition fee waivers for UGent-students, contact int.feb@ugent.be)
- Universität Würzburg
- Frankfurt Summer Universities
- University of Split
- Sabanci University
- Koç University
- ICHEC Brussels Management School
- ISC Paris
- Yonsei University
- Zhejiang University
- Université Cote d'Azur
- HWR Berlin
- Solvay
- Linköping
- George Mason University
- University of Gothenburg
- Turku
- Global Entrepreunship Summer School (virtual)
- BSB Summer school
- Comenius University Bratislava (BIP, financial support through UGent €350 + €100 for students who receive a study allowance from the Flemish Community)
- Tartu University (BIP, financial support through Tartu or UGent)
- University of Victoria
- Singapore Management University
Internships abroad
Registration
All internships abroad need to be registrered in Oasis, please follow the guidelines.
Information about internships
For more information about internships we refer to the traineeship coordinators.
Scholarship programmes for internships
- Erasmus Traineeship: for internships within the Erasmus area, you can receive between €379 and €529 per month depending on location and availability. The internship has to last for min. 2 months and needs to be part of your study programme. At the time of application you do not need to have found an internship already. Please make your application in Oasis (under Curriculum > Exchange).
Next application deadline (for internships during the academic year 2023-24): February, 28th, 2023 (for internships during the 1st semester) - November, 30th 2023 (for internships during the 2nd semester). - You can also apply for a scholarship for internships outside of the Erasmus area. The internship has to last for min. 1 month (5 ECTS). You need to apply for this scholarship one academic year before the academic year when the internship takes place. At the time of application you do need to have found an internship already. Next application deadline (for internships during the academic year 2022-23): March, 2nd, 2023. More information.
- Flanders Trainee Programme: for internships at an International Organisation.
- Transuniv: Grants for Traineeships in northern France and Wallonia
- ASEM work placement programme: Grants for traineeship in Asia
- Erasmus+ Scholarship for internships after graduation
- Other
Study abroad after your studies at UGent
Please find more information about studying abroad after your studies at UGent here.
International@home
You don't have the possibility to study abroad? Or maybe you already studied abroad and are infected by the 'international bug' but ran out of funding?
Then we have the perfect solution for you! We offer 2 faculty initiatives to you to strengthen your inter cultural competences. It is also the perfect possibility to expand your international network and language skills:
- Become a volunteer in our faculty buddy-programme
- Become our student partner at the faculty to help us realizing student exchange up to 25% of the graduated students!
Help us to organize promotional actions, information fairs, etc.
Contact
Faculty International Office
Campus Tweekerken - building Hoveniersberg - ground floor