STEP 1

Contact your Erasmus+ Department Coordinator at your Home University if you intend to study at the University of Patras (UP). Before your applications to UP, you must be officially nominated by your home university. If there is no inter-institutional agreement between our universities and you are interested in studying in our Department of Chemistry, you may write to our Erasmus+ Coordinators (, ) to suggest the implementation of an inter-institutional agreement. If they are willing to cooperate, we might be able to establish an inter-institutional agreement, after which you can proceed to the next step.

STEP 2

Check the Courses Available at our University.  At this address, you can find the list of subjects available at our department. You will use them to fill in the learning agreement. Please pay attention to the fact that your learning agreement should only contain courses that are taught during the period of your stay.

• Minimum number of ECTS to be selected: 10 out of 30 (per semester).
• Teaching in English will be offered only if there are more than five students enrolled. Otherwise, the course will be conducted using the “Reading Method.”(hyperlink-text is provided below)
  In laboratory courses, attendance is compulsory, and face-to-face (F2F) instruction will be provided in English.

• In case of interest in conducting a BSc Thesis at the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, a formal Invitation Letter from a faculty member of the Department of Chemistry is required and must be submitted together with the Learning Agreement (LA).

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What is the “Reading Method”?

The Reading Method refers to a form of instruction in which:

• There are no regular lectures in English.
• Students study the course material independently (lecture notes, textbooks, articles) provided in English.
• The instructor offers guidance, clarification, and assessment (e.g. office hours, written assignments, or exams), typically in English.

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STEP 3 – APPLICATION

Deadline for applications and nominations for the fall term/full academic year: June 15

Deadline for applications and nominations for the spring term: November 15

Nominated students will have 30 days to complete and send their documents to the University of Patras Erasmus+ Office.

• To complete the online application for Erasmus+ mobility at the University of Patras, students must follow the instructions provided via email.

The following documents must be uploaded to the Erasmusplus platform in PDF format:

• Passport or ID
• Curriculum Vitae in English
• Transcript of Records in English (provided by the student’s home university)
• Learning Agreement already signed by the student and by the sending university (either in document format or export from the Online Learning Agreement – OLA – platform)

Documents sent by email or post will not be accepted.

All applications will be processed after the application deadline. The Erasmus Coordinator of the host academic department will sign the Learning Agreement and upload it to the application platform. Approximately one month after the application deadline, students will receive an automatic email confirming the formal approval of their application and will be able to download the fully signed Learning Agreement from the platform. Following this, students will receive the Letter of Acceptance via email.

STEP 4 – BEFORE ARRIVAL

• The ECTS Learning Agreement must be signed by the student and the academic coordinators at both parties, the home and host universities.

• See the infosheet  for practical and helpful information about mobility at the University of Patras (UP).

Registration procedure

• Check in at the International Office of the University of Patras for official registration within approximately 1–3 days after you arrive in Patras.

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• At the beginning of the semester, students receive the Certificate of Arrival (based on the official start date of the semester) & IRO Certificate (document required for the restaurant card application) via email from the Department of International Affairs.
• Registration at the host academic Department also takes place remotely at the beginning of the semester. Students receive the Certificate of Registration & their UP account credentials (username and password) via email from the Secretariat of the host academic Department (Department of Chemistry, South Building, ground floor).
• Students apply online for the Academic Identity Card at https://submit-academicid.minedu.gov.gr/ using their UP account credentials.

For further details, see infosheet.

• First meeting with the Departmental Coordinators

Konstantinos Athanasopoulos, Professor (Coordinator)

tel. 2610.99.79.09, email: 

Department of Chemistry, North Building, 2nd floor

Carmen Simal Fernández, Assistant Professor (Deputy Coordinator)

tel. 2610.99.60.23, email: 

Department of Chemistry, North Building, 2nd floor

• Guided tour of the Department of Chemistry, including facilities and introduction to faculty members and staff.

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• Within the first 10 days, all arrangements for the selected courses must be completed.

Each course instructor is required to provide the following:

• • Study plan and tutorials
  • Weekly meeting schedule
  • English textbook or English lecture notes (specified chapters/pages per week)
  • Type of assessment the Erasmus student will undertake (e.g. written exam, oral exam, PowerPoint presentation, mini research project, written report, etc.)
• Assessment / Examinations
  Examinations are conducted according to the official academic calendar, unless otherwise specified by the course instructor.

• Follow-up meetings
  A follow-up meeting will be arranged once per month with the Departmental Coordinators to discuss study progress or address any mobility-related issues.

After completion of the study programme, each Erasmus student must submit to the Departmental Coordinators a document (template provided) listing the courses attended, including the following details:

• Course title
• Teaching staff
• Date of assessment
• Type of assessment (written exam, oral exam, report, presentation, etc.)

The Faculty will issue a Transcript of Records. The ECTS credits for the courses included in the approved Learning Agreement will be recognized and integrated into the curriculum at the student’s home institution.
The Transcript will be sent to the home University and to the student’s personal email address after the official deadline for grade submission.

Students who leave without sitting any examinations do so at their own responsibility.
Teaching staff are not obliged to offer remote or alternative examinations.

Before departing from the University of Patras, each Erasmus student must:

• Sign the following declarations:

☐ I declare that I have understood that teaching staff are not obliged to offer remote examinations. If I leave without sitting any examinations, this is entirely my own responsibility.

☐ I declare that I have returned any borrowed books provided by teaching staff or by the Central Library.