If you are keen to enhance your studies at University of Aberdeen with some time abroad, but a full semester or year-long exchange or traineeship doesn't suit your circumstances, then you may wish to consider a short-term mobility. Many universities worldwide offer short term mobility programmes, allowing you to gain an international experience and enrich your CV.
Funding
Funding is available to most students through the Santander or Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Most host institutions will charge a tuition or participation fee, but if the programme is offered at one of our partner universities the fee may be discounted, waived or additional benefits like free accommodation offered.
You may need to consider travel, accommodation and living costs - check details for your host institution of choice.
Winter Schools
- Winter Schools 2021-2022
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AUSTRIA: University of Vienna - Univie: Winter School for Cultural Historical Studies 2021/22
This winter school is due to run within the Aberdeen term dates, please be cautious and do not apply if you think this might impact your degree studies.
The programme is only offered online
The two-week program offers a variety of academic courses taught live online. The courses are held by distinguished scholars with international teaching experience. The interdisciplinary lectures will lead to a thorough understanding of the input of the fin-de-siècle on the modernization of Europe.
More information at - Winter School (univie.ac.at)
Level - UG
Subject area - The programme is interdisciplinary; course offerings will be of interest for students from all fields of study, but certainly of special interest for students who study one of the following fields: History, Cultural Studies, Art, Literature, Psychology, and Political Science.
Duration - 2 weeks, 5 Feb 2022- 18 Feb 2022
Tuition fees - 1 course € 675 ; 2 courses € 1,150.* Plus admission fee of € 20.70
*Please note this programme is full fee paying and not available on an exchange basis.
Deadline - 31 December 2021
JAPAN: Nagasaki University, Online Winter Program
This winter school is due to run within the Aberdeen term dates, please be cautious and do not apply if you think this might impact your degree studies.
If you are eager to learn Japanese language and culture, this is the program for you!
Website- Click here to view the website for this program
Level - Any
Subject area - Japanese language classes, Japanese history and culture.
Duration - 10 days - February 7, 2022 to February 18, 2022
Tuition fees - 15,000 JPY*
*Please note this programme is full fee paying and not available on an exchange basis.
Accommodation - Not applicable, this is an online programme.
Deadline -**Nomination request submitted to Go Abroad Team: 5pm December 14 2021 (GMT)
Application to Nagasaki: December 17 2021 (Japan time is GMT+9)
**You must be nominated for the programme by the Go Abroad Team before your application will be accepted. Please email studyabroad@abdn.ac.uk to request to be nominated for the program.
Summer Schools
- Australia - Information coming soon
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- Austria
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Graz International Summer School Seggau
"Re-Measuring, Re-Calculating, Re-Counting: State - Society - Religion in Transition"
Click here to read their poster
Click here for a video introduction
- Duration: July 3 - July 16, 2022
- Subject areas: International Affairs & Global Developments
- Tuition Fee: The total student participation fee is 1.500€. It covers course costs, tuition, room & board (single rooms, 3 meals per day) for the entire 2 weeks.
- Accommodation: provided
- Deadline:14 March 2022
Click here to apply
- Belgium - Information coming soon
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- Canada
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NEW FOR SUMMER 2022!
MITACS-UUKI GLOBAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
Are you an excellent student interested in developing your research expertise with top professors in Canada?
Mitacs's Globalink Research Internship, in partnership with Universities UK International (UUKi), gives undergraduates in their penultimate year an opportunity to complete a fully-funded 12-week summer research internship in a variety of academic disciplines from science, engineering, and mathematics to the humanities and social sciences.
Successful applicants will complete an internship under the supervision of a professor at one of 70 participating Canadian universities.- Level - UG
- Subject areas - Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Duration - 12 consecutive weeks between May 2022 and October 2022
- Tuition Fees - Scholarship funded, including airfare, airport transfers, health insurance, plus stipends for housing, food, enrolment fees and incidentals.
- Deadline - students must register their interest with the Go Abroad team before 12 August 2021 to be nominated for this programme in 2022.
Find out more
- Chile - Information coming soon
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- China
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Summer School @ the School of Economics, Fudan University
This is an English-taught program with 16 courses bearing 2-3 Fudan credits. Eight courses will be taught face to face at Fudan community, and the other eight courses will remain online-teaching. (The program end date may be subject to change, and we will re-evaluate the feasibility of offline-teaching next May, to confirm whether Covid-19 prevention and control measures allow that.)
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Duration: June 6 - July 1, 2022
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Subject areas: A wide range of multi-level courses in Economics, Finance, Management, Data Science, History, Sociology, etc.
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Tuition fee: CNY 28,600 per person, plus a non refundable application fee of CNY 400 per person
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Accommodation: Not included.
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Deadline: 23:59 May 15, 2022 (Beijing Time).
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- Denmark
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International Summer University Programme (ISUP), Copenhagen Business School
Join ISUP, International Summer University Programme, one of Europe’s largest and oldest summer programmes, and experience exciting courses taught by brilliant faculty as well as the amazing spirit of wonderful Copenhagen. Be inspired by the international environment with participants from over 50 countries. Click here to read their brochure.
- Duration: 27 June to 29 July 2022 for ordinary 6 week courses,28 June to 14 July 202 for short 3 week courses
- Subject area/s: more than 40 exciting courses ranging from classic business courses to more diverse, innovative and entrepreneurial courses; all courses will be taught online if on-campus is not possible by summer 2021
- Level - UG/PG
- Tuition fee: £0 for students of partner universities, if places available on our Erasmus agreement. Please email erasmus@abdn.ac.uk to confirm and be nominated
- Accommodation: provided, costs to be met by student
- Deadline: applications 17 February - 15 March 2022 (1 March for nominations)
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- Estonia - Information coming soon
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- Finland - Information coming soon
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- Germany - Information coming soon
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- Hong Kong
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International Summer Exchange Program (ISP), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Students will study at least 3 credits and up to 9 credits of regular undergraduate-level courses offered by HKUST in English. Local excursions and cultural activities will be organized exclusively for ISP students. A series of activities and events are also available for ISP students to interact with each other to encourage cultural exchange.
- Duration: 20 June to 13 August 2022
- Subject Areas: Summer Term courses are offered by School of Science, School of Engineering, School of Business and Management, School of Humanities and Social Science and Interdisciplinary Programs Office.
- Level: Undergraduate
- Tuition fee: This summer school is offered on an exchange basis only, students do not need to pay tuition fees to HKUST. Each student will be charged HK$9,500 which covers; University housing fee; HKUST compulsory travel insurance fee; Student visa application and handling fee (deducted if not applicable)
- Accommodation: Will be provided in University housing between 16 June to 14 August 2022.
- Deadline: Students must be nominated by the Go Abroad Team for this programme.
Please submit a nomination request to studyabroad@abdn.ac.uk by 7 February 2021.
You will then need to submit your application to HKUST by 1 March 2022.
Find out more about this programme here
- India - Information coming soon
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- Poland - Information coming soon
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- Russia - Information coming soon
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- Singapore - Information coming soon
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- South Korea - Information coming soon
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- Spain - Information coming soon
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- USA - Information coming soon
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