Application for an exchange semester
You come from a partner university of TH Wildau and plan an exchange semester or year in Wildau (e.g. Erasmus+)?
Application procedure for exchange students (Erasmus+ etc.)
Every semester we welcome different exchange students from our partner universities in our Bachelor's and Master's programmes.
Admissions requirements
The most important requirement for a stay in Wildau is that your home university has a partnership agreement with our university. If that is the case, you should hand in your application documents to your home university's Erasmus+ coordinator. The Erasmus+ coordinator of your home university will then forward us your application and we will get in touch with you via email to prepare your stay in Wildau.
Below you can find a list with the application documents which you have to hand in and more details about the Learning Agreement.
Applicaton deadlines
- If you want to come to Wildau in the winter term: 15 May
- If you want to come to Wildau in the summer term: 15 November
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The most important document that you need in order to study in Wildau is a Learning Agreement. Please keep in mind the following guidelines when preparing your Learning Agreement:
- Courses from the 1st, 3rd and 5th semester take place during the winter semester (September-January)
- Courses from the 2nd, 4th and 6th semester take place during the summer semester (March-July)
- You are required to take courses amounting to at least 20 ECTS and max. 33 ECTS per semester.
- During your time at our university, we will also be glad to welcome you at our 'German as a foreign language'-courses if you are interested in improving your German language skills. These courses are free of charge and also count for credit points. The International Office will give you further information on the German courses offer.
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The most important requirement for a stay in Wildau is that your home university has a partnership agreement with our university.
If you would like to study in Wildau too, please ask your home university to nominate you for an exchange semester in Wildau.
In order to come to Germany, you will need a student's visa. You can apply for the visa at the German embassy in your home country. Our International Office will support you by preparing an invitation letter so that you can apply for the visa. After your arrival in Germany you will then have to apply for a residence permit at the local immigration office. Here you can find more information on how to apply for the visa and the residence permit.
As a non-European exchange student, you are obliged to take a German public health insurance. You can find more information on this here.
Below you can find a list with the application documents which you have to hand in and more details about the Learning Agreement.
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All exchange students have to hand in the following application documents:
- CV
- Contact form
- Copy of your passport or ID card (EU)
- Health insurance application (or EU: EHIC)
- Biometric picture
- Learning Agreement
- Language certificate (CEFR level B2 in the language of instruction of the study programme)
Please send your application documents to incoming(at)th-wildau.de.