Student Exchange
Contact person Jouni.Niskanen@Helsinki.fi
Courses in Physics and Theoretical Physics 1998-99
HOW TO APPLY?
There are several convenient international student exchange programmes through which it is easy and direct to apply. The most important exchange channels are listed below. Students are advised to contact first the international office or official of their own university concerning the availability of these schemes at their university. Also they can contact our international exchange contact person Jouni.Niskanen@Helsinki.fi for more information and application forms.
Students who cannot use these more automated channels should send an
application for the status of a visiting student to the Faculty of Science,
where one can also ask for forms:
International relations
Faculty of Science
P.O. Box 44
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Fax: +358-9-19140039
Email: ml-neuvonta@Helsinki.fi
General information to foreign students about the University of Helsinki can be found in the web address http://www.helsinki.fi and on entrance requirements and application procedures in http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/kv/apgu9798.htm.
EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES
ERASMUS
The Department of Physics participates in the Socrates/Erasmus network EMSPS organized by the European Physical Society. It is possible to apply from the over a hundred European universities belonging to this network (too many to list here; ask your own university's coordinators or our contact person). We have also closer Erasmus collaboration and contacts with the following universitites
The Netherlands: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven http://www.tue.nl/
Spain: Universidad de Granada http://www.ugr.es/
Italy: Universita degli studi di Torino http://www.unito.it/
Poland: University of Lodz http://fizjlk.fic.uni.lodz.pl/
France: Université Joseph
Fourier (Grenoble) http://www.ujf-grenoble.fr
Université Claude Bernard
(Lyon) http://www.univ-lyon1.fr
Université Louis Pasteur
(Strasbourg) http://www-physique.u-strasbg.fr
Sweden: Uppsala Universitet http://www.fysik.uu.se/
Germany: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
(Heidelberg) http://www.uni-heidelberg.de
Freie Universität Berlin
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
(Jena) http://www.physik.uni-jena.de
from which Erasmus exchange is very convenient.
There is no fixed quota for Erasmus students arriving to the Department of Physics.
NORDPLUS
Within the Nordic countries there is an existing Nordplus network with the following universities to and from which it should be easy to get an economically attractive scholarship for an exchange studentterm.
Stockholm
Uppsala
Lund
Göteborg / Chalmers
Bergen
Trondheim
Copenhagen
Aarhus
Reykjavik
Application time for other Nordic universities finishes on the 10th of January.
TEMPUS
Many universities in Central and Eastern Europe belong also to the EMSPSnetwork through the Tempus program with the EU and Erasmus scholarships are available to their students.
ISEP
In North America there are about a hundred universities which participate in ISEP (International Student Echange Program) through which it is possible to come as an exchange student to Helsinki.
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
The University of Helsinki has several bilateral agreements on student exchange with universities around the world. Those covering physics by default are presently with
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich
Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel
Universität des Saarlandes
Universidat Complutense de Madrid
University of St. Petersburg
University of Moscow
University of Petroskoi
University of Tartu
University of Latvia
University of Vilna
University of Warsaw
University of York, Canada
University of Minnesota, USA
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
University of Waseda, Japan
University of Beijing, China
Seoul National University, Korea