Faculty of Sciences
Anchieta Campus
Mobility programs
The Spanish University Exchange System, better known as the SICUE Program, facilitates student exchanges between Spanish universities. Through this system, students from Spanish universities can complete part of their studies at a university other than their own, with guarantees of academic recognition and credit transfer, as well as alignment with their curriculum.
This exchange system takes into account the educational value of the exchange, by making it possible for the student to experience different teaching systems, including the internship system, as well as the different social and cultural aspects of other autonomous communities and cities.
The student exchange program will be based on trust between institutions, transparency, reciprocity, and flexibility. Universities participating in this system commit to certain obligations affecting various aspects of their operations (related to the exchange), making information about courses, schedules, etc., accessible to other universities. They also commit to using standardized grading methods and submitting grades to the home university in a timely manner.
For more information on the SICUE Program, please consult the ULL Scholarship Office website.
Erasmus+ is the European Union's program in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2014-2020, as established in Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013. The program contains several key actions, among which Key Action 1 stands out, aimed at the mobility of people for learning purposes.
As part of Key Action 1, KA103 action "Mobility of students and staff in higher education between programme countries" aims to improve the quality of higher education and strengthen its European dimension by fostering transnational cooperation between higher education institutions, promoting the mobility of their students and teaching and non-teaching staff in order to improve transparency and academic recognition of studies and qualifications in all member countries of the Union.
Action KA103 promotes student mobility in two different modalities: SMS (Student Mobility for Studies) and SMT (Student Mobility for Training).
The SMS mobility program aims to allow students to study, generally for a semester or a full year with the corresponding credit recognition, at a university in one of the 28 countries of the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey, as well as Switzerland, under special conditions.
Furthermore, the SMT internship period is a stay for a period of time in a company or organization in another participating country, and its purpose is to help people adapt to the demands of the labor market at a community level, acquire specific skills and improve their understanding of the economic and social environment of the country in question, while at the same time gaining work experience.
These mobility programs enable our graduates to acquire both the knowledge and skills they need and an international cultural background highly sought after in the job market. Among the program's objectives are providing students with the social and cultural experience of living in other countries, enhancing their academic preparation for employment, and strengthening their communication, cooperation, adaptation, and cultural understanding skills.
Promoting internationalization in the degree program is of utmost importance, since it is necessary to improve and encourage students to undertake mobility under the Erasmus program, thereby breaking the trend of students completing their degree training without having had the opportunity to anticipate their future internships and needs in other countries where the implementation of new degree programs adapted to the European Higher Education Area is already a reality.
On the other hand, the degree programs have a procedure, within the quality assurance system for the management of student mobility, which allows for the standardization of mobility across different degree programs, the planning of programs, the systematization of monitoring and evaluation procedures, as well as the regularization of support and guidance mechanisms for students once enrolled in relation to mobility.
For more information about the Erasmus+ Programme, you can consult the ULL website under the International tab.
Outgoing student mobility for studies (SMS)
Erasmus outgoing studies
Outgoing student mobility for internships (SMT)
Erasmus outgoing internships
Coordinator of International Mobility at the Faculty of Sciences: Dr. Elena Pastor Tejera (epastor@ull.es)