Doctoral study – trips abroad 

Departures of doctoral students abroad 

  1. The doctoral student always consults the study trip with his or her supervisor, who is together with the head of the department responsible for the professional quality of each type of a study trip. Internships and other activities abroad are not centrally provided by the dean’s office or the rectorate, it is primarily the activity of the supervisor and his or her doctoral student. 
  2. If possible, long-term foreign stays should be completed (undertaken) within the full-time study and not postponed to the subsequent combined form of study. The recommended time is the period immediately after the SDE, respectively following the end of the second year of study. 
  3. Completion of a part of the study at a foreign institution for at least one month or participation in an international creative project with results published or presented abroad, or another form of direct student participation in international cooperation: 
  4. The student must, with the application for a contribution to finance the trip to the internship, relevantly prove the arrangement of the internship (e.g. e-mail from the foreign institution that the student is to be accepted). The relevant institution for a foreign internship is a foreign university, research institution, supranational institutions such as the EC, OECD, ECB, IMF, etc. If a student implements part of his or her study duties at a foreign company or foreign non-profit entity (e.g. collection / preparation / analysis of company data, etc.), he or she must discuss the study trip’s work plan with his or her supervisor prior to his or her leaving for the stay. In all cases, after returning from an internship abroad, the student must provide a signed confirmation from the foreign institution on the student’s stay. 
  5. Participation in an international creative project with results published or presented abroad means the involvement of a doctoral student in a project which is at least partially scientific and which has international partners or is internationally funded or organised, respectively. As part of the involvement in the project, the student (jointly) creates a published result with the appropriate dedication to the project and affiliation at FFÚ, which he or she publishes abroad (in a journal or in the proceedings of a foreign conference). 
  6. As internships are not considered e.g. participations on trainings abroad. The internship cannot be split into shorter time periods. 

Details on the trip financing are available here. 

Once completed, the travel forms are submitted to the research and doctoral research officer.