During Your Stay Abroad
Once you have arrived at your destination, we recommend doing as much as your host university has to offer. Welcome days in particular make it much easier to find your feet, both from an organizational perspective and as a way of meeting other students face to face. Most universities have buddy programs and local Erasmus initiatives (ESN) that arrange events and cheap excursions for visiting students.
(The following information only applies to long-term study periods abroad lasting one to two semesters.)
What do I need to bear in mind about my Erasmus grant?
Documents and procedure
Most students will need to make changes to their Learning Agreement when they start studying abroad, maybe because the courses they chose in advance are actually not offered, are fully booked or cover different content to what they originally assumed.
This is where the Learning Agreement Changes come in. You can find more information on the last few pages of our Instructions on completing the Online Learning Agreement (OLA) (PDF).
Upload your amendments as a PDF file to your Mobility-Online account at the University of Bonn (bearing all signatures), ideally within seven weeks of your lectures starting.
To extend your stay by a semester, you will need to upload the Application for extending a stay (PDF) to your Mobility-Online account at least 30 days before your original end date or by January 15, whichever is sooner. If you are interested in an extension, you can request more information via your Mobility-Online account.
Before the end of the semester, ask your contacts at your host university how to request and obtain your transcript of records, which is a certificate showing your achievements during your Erasmus studies. Finding this out in advance will prevent you from having to make inquiries of your host university—and potentially various offices at the University of Bonn as well—further down the line to ask whether your transcript of records has ended up there.
Check whether the details of your studies entered on the form are correct and ask your host university to sign, date and stamp it up to five days before the confirmed end of your stay (but no earlier; getting a form issued retrospectively is not a problem, however).
Contact
Gudrun Hille
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Poppelsdorfer Allee 53
53115 Bonn (Germany)
Office hours
Please make an appointment via eCampus
Furter information
Before your stay abroad
Here you can find information on what you need to get organized and how to obtain your Erasmus grant.
After your stay abroad
Finished your Erasmus study mobility and looking to get an overview of what you need to do once you’re back home?