Freemovers

Suitable for stays of 30 days or more in any country in the world. The scholarship is awarded for a minimum of one month and a maximum of one semester.

FREEMOVERS STUDY STAYS

The programme for freemovers is intended for students who arrange their own study or research stay at a foreign university outside any exchange programme of Masaryk University (e.g. Erasmus+) or outside any intergovernmental, inter-university or inter-faculty agreements. Freemovers can choose from universities all over the world, but both the home faculty/department and the foreign university must agree to the study stay. Each foreign university has different rules for accepting freemovers - some do not accept them at all, some require payment of tuition fees, others openly welcome freemovers.

Information on the experiences of students who have made use of the grants for Freemovers to study at a wide range of foreign universities can be found here here (only in Czech).

FREEMOVERS WORK PLACEMENTS

The programme for freemovers is also intended for students who want to complete a one- to four-month traineeship abroad as part of their studies at Masaryk University and do not have the opportunity to use other funding (e.g. through the Erasmus+ programme, from the faculty, etc.). As a freemovers you can travel to any country in the world for your internship.

You can find out about the students who went on placements as Freemovers can be found here (only in Czech).

Application deadlines for the 2024 scholarship programme:

• 15 April 2024
  2nd round for stays in calendar year 2024
• 30 September 2024
  3rd round for the calendar year 2024; the deadline is open until funding is exhausted
• 15 December 2024
  15 December 2024 for stays in the 2025 calendar year; the opening of the additional round will be decided during the year if there is sufficient funding

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE APPLICATION PROCESS?

1. Arrange your study or work placement with your destination well in advance of the Freemovers grant deadline. You must know the following details: the exact dates of the placement, the name and address of the foreign institution, the scope of the work placement/study placement, the contact person, the mentor and the supervisor (these three roles can be represented by one person).

2. Prepare a Learning agreement (for study placement) or a Training agreement (for work placement). These documents are accepted in paper form (PDF scan) or can be created electronically through the ISOIS system as part of the online application for the scholarship. Both forms of the document must be signed by all three parties - the student, the departmental coordinator at LF MU and the supervisor at the foreign institution.

   Departmental coordinators at MED MUNI:
   General Medicine, Dentistry: doc. MUDr. Lubomír Křivan, Ph.D.
   Health Science degree programmes: prof. PhDr. Andrea Pokorna, Ph.D.
   

   Signatures are arranged by Zuzana Pilátová (IO). LA or TA should be sent to zpilatova@med.muni.cz.
   
   

3. The application for the grant is submitted electronically and if the Learning/Training Agreement has not been signed yet, you need to print out the application and hand it in with the signature of the authorised person from the faculty (see above).

   The application form does not have to be completed in English. For names, addresses, etc. use diacritical marks where needed. In the year column give the actual year of study at MU.

4. The application form must contain mandatory attachments, which are uploaded in PDF format. The attachments are as follows:

5. In the case of a study stay, the following applies:

• The printed, signed by you and by the authorized person from your faculty, who will confirm with signature that the faculty agrees with your departure and is willing to recognize the credits obtained. You can find detailed information on recognition here.
• If you already have a signed "Learning Agreement" (normally required only afterwards before departure and before the scholarship is awarded), the signature of an authorized faculty member is not required, so do not print the application form. Instead, send the Learning Agreement by email to the CIC contact person or insert it into the scholarship application/your IS record.
• If you are sending the application by post at the last minute, please also send an information email to the CIC coordinator.

If it is a work placement, you do not need to print and submit the application in paper form.

WHAT MUST BE DONE BEFORE DEPARTURE?

• Create a record of your internship in IS (STUDENT → INTERNSHIPS AND STAYS → CREATE A NEW STAY (contact person: Vice-Dean Křivan / Vice-Dean Pokorna); administrator: your study officer). You can edit this record, add the required documents and finally apply for recognition of your stay abroad via this record.
• Upload the fully confirmed LA/TA to this record.

Once the stay has been established, you will receive a travel insurance policy from the University via email.

DO I HAVE TO DO ANYTHING DURING MY STAY?

• During your stay, you will perform your duties according to the learning or training agreement. If there is any change(s) in the learning or work placement, a Changes to LA or Changes to TA document must be completed and signed again by all three parties and uploaded to the placement record.
• If you are completing a pre-graduation practice during the overseas placement, have a logbook confirmed with a record of each procedure. This document must be signed at the end by a representative of the foreign institution, dated the same or earlier than the end of the internship, and uploaded to the internship record.

WHAT ARE MY RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE END OF MY STAY AND WHEN I RETURN HOME?

• STUDY STAYS

  • After completing your study abroad, you must apply for recognition of your courses/credits from your study abroad experience. More information can be found here.

  • The following documents are part of the application for recognition and will be uploaded into IS:

    • Confirmation of Study Abroad / Confirmation of Study Period

    • Transcript of Records / Transcript of Records within 10 days of completion of studies at the foreign institution

  • Within 6 weeks after the end of the study placement, the student must complete a final placement report that can help your friends going to the institution in the following years. The report is completed online in ISOIS (select Final reports in the Program section).

    The reports of students who have been abroad on this program are available in the CIC database (final reports up to 2018) and in ISOIS (final reports from 2019 onwards).

• WORKING STAYS
  • At the end of your internship, have the document you will need upon your return confirmed: Confirmation of Placement Period
  • Ask for course recognition as indicated in the confirmation. More information can be found here.

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