MEVLANA EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

Mevlana Exchange Programme is a programme which aims the exchange of students and academic staff between the Turkish Higher Education institutions and higher education institutions of other countries.

Mevlana Exchange Programme Bilateral Agreement: A valid bilateral agreement is required for student and academic staff exchange. The bilateral agreements is valid for five years.

Exchange of Students: - The students registered to the vocational schools (2nd class), bachelor’s degree (2 nd, 3rd, 4th classes), master, doctorate programme (after the first semester excluding the language or scientific preparation semesters) programs of the universities can benefit from Mevlana Exchange Programme.

Turkish citizen students who study in foreign university unfortunately couldn’t apply to Mevlana Exchange Programme.

Circumstances To Be a Mevlana Exchange Student:

Grade Point Average (GPA) should be at least: 2.5/4.0 for students vocational schools and bachelor’s degree, 3.0/4.0 for the Ms and PhD students, the score of language of which the host institute us for teaching.

23.01.2018 the Council of Higher Education Executive Council Decisions: It has decided as follows in compliance with the specified area as student (incoming/outgoing) and academic staff exchange with countries listed below.

Student Documents:

For Candidate Students: Candidate Application Form, Transcript, Certificate of Language

For Students on Main List: Student Application Form, Learning Agreement, Letter of Acceptance, Arrival Form, Student Declaration, Information Form, Student Final Report (before leaving SDU), Student Declaration of Attendance, Activity Report (for graduate students, before leaving SDU)

Resident Permit: Incoming student should apply for his/her resident permit in a month after his/her arrival in Turkey.

Documents Asked For Student Residence Permit

• Online Application Form
• Original Copy and Photocopy of the Passport or Travel Document
• Four Photos
• Valid Health Insurance
• Mevlana Student Certificate
• Document Showing your adress Information
• Residence Permit Card Fee Receipt
• Income Statement

Insurance Documents: Incoming students should bring their insurance documents with them. The insurance should be valid in Turkey.

Educational Expences: During the exchange mobility, the participant students must pay the required tuition fee to their home higher educational institute. They don’t pay any tuition fee to the host university.

Finantial Support: For Academic Year 2017-2018,  Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) will pay 1200 TL for incoming students per month. 80% of the scholarship is paid to students per month after their arrival to SDU. The rest of the scholarship will be paid based on the ratio of total credits of the succeeded courses to the courses that the student is obliged to take. The scholarship includes only for four months.

Exchange of Academic Staff:

Academic staff (professor, associate professor, assistant professor, lecturer) can participate to Mevlana exchange Programme. Research assistants could only participate as a student. Academic staff should give courses at least 6 hours per a week. Academic staff can participate Mevlana Programme min. 2 weeks and max. 3 months.

Documents for Academic Staff:

For candidate Academic Staff: Candidate Application Form, CV, Annex, Certificate of Language

For Academic Staff on Main List: Academic Staff Mobility Programme, Letter of Acceptance, Academic Staff Declaration, Information Form, Academic Staff Final Report (before leaving SDU), Academic Staff Declaration of Attendance.

Financial Supports For Incoming Academic Staff (for 2017-2018 academic year)

For Professor, Associate professor, assistant professor: 50 TL (per day)

For lecturer: 40 TL (per day)

Transport for Academic Staff:

Dear Colleagues,

Warm greetings from Chonnam National University, Korea.

I am writing on behalf of Professor Kiseok Moon, Dean for International Affairs at Chonnam National University, Korea. I am delighted to introduce a chance to study and travel during the four-week period over this summer in the Chonnam National University International Summer Session 2019(CNUISS 2019).

Last year, we invited 130 international students and 15 professors from our partner universities and they were very satisfied with their one month stay at CNU. The courses we offer have a length of 4 weeks and are taught by the professors of proven expertise and experience in the most leading-edge areas of knowledge of our university and partner universities abroad. Students can take up to two classes and get six credits and travel across Korea with the international students from 25 different countries along with Chonnam students.

[CNUISS2018 video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kHs6DH2Tz6IbQ0A_IUHPb_3eHPikfs2H]

The Following is a brief overview of the program:

• Period:June 24 - July 20, 2019 (Pick-up at Incheon Airport on June 23, Sunday)
• Class Hours: 45 hours (3 hours a day/4 days a week/M,T,Th,F)
• Cultural Excursions:

- Welcoming & Farewell Party

- Seoul Trip: Korean Folk Village, DMZ(Demilitarized Zone) & JSA(Joint Security Area)

- Korean Traditional Clothing Trials & Calligraphy Classes

- Gwangju 518 Memorial Park                                                         

- Temple Stay & Yeongam F1 Circuit

• Official Language of the Program: English
• Class Setup: A mixture of Korean students and international students.
• Fee: Total1,800,000KRW 800,000KRW (approximately USD750)

- Application Fee (Non-refundable): 100,000KRW

- Tuition: 600,000KRW

- Dormitory: 400,000KRW

- Cultural Excursions: 600,000KRW

- Insurance (Non-refundable): 50,000KRW

- Pick-up at Incheon airport (Non-refundable): 50,000KRW

CNU would like to host 3 students for CNUISS 2019 with tuition and dormitory fee waived and another 3 students with full fee paying status if there are more demands. After you nominate student participants, please fill out the attached excel file and send it to me by March 8, Friday. We will contact the students directly and guide the online application link and payment method after your nomination. We are sure that your students will have an unforgettable study abroad opportunity this summer in Korea.

We appreciate your cooperation in advance. Should you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

We look forward to welcoming your students this summer!

Best regards,

Dear esteemed colleagues and partners,

Greetings from Office of International Programs at Konkuk University, Korea!

We would like to announce that applications for 2019 Konkuk University International Summer Program(ISP) are now available!

This summer student can choose either 'Academic Track - ISP Session 1 (3 weeks)' or 'Cultural Track - ISP Session 2(2 week)' program by their interest.

We have scheduled many interesting cultural programs and field trips along side lecture classes, we are sure that student will have both academic and culturally

fruitful time here in our Seoul Campus.

We would appreciate it if you could pass the program information below to your students who might be interested in joining us this year.

<PDF Pamphlet>

For further information regarding the program, please click attached pdf file to view a copy of the program pamphlet and application form.

2019 Konkuk University International Summer Program

2019 ISP Summer Session 1

1.  Duration of the Program: July 8 - July 26, 2019 (3 weeks)

2.  Application Deadline: May 15, 2019

3.  Payment Deadline: May 31, 2019

As for our partner university students must be first nominated by their home institution to receive partner university discount. We do not have a limitation to student applicants from our partner university. However, since the maximum number of students we can accept for this short program is 60, if the total number of nominees exceeds our limit, we will need to reduce the number of nominees from each institution. If you are interested to form short-term program based MOU with our university please do not hesitate to contact me.

For the nomination list, please send us an e-mail with the following information at klm23086@konkuk.ac.kr

*Name of Student

*Major of Study

*Date of Birth

*E-mail Address

Please check the latest information regarding the program from the URL below.

URL: https://summer.konkuk.ac.kr

(We will update our academic program syllabus detail in webpage shortly.)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at klm23086@konkuk.ac.kr or intl_programs@konkuk.ac.kr.

Best regards,

Dayoung

Dayoung Ko
Senior Manager
International Programs · ASIA Exchange
Office of International Affairs
abroad.konkuk.ac.kr

KONKUK UNIVERSITY
120 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu,
Seoul 05029, Korea
Tel 82.2.2049.6201
Fax 82.2.2049.6226
Email klm23086@konkuk.ac.kr

Dear partner universities,

We are now ready to accept your students in our a tuition-waiver English-medium Summer Program in July 2019. Please refer the following web site.

http://www.kochi-u.ac.jp/international/english/activities/SCJLC/index.html

I would be very pleased if you would forward it to your various international offices so they can alert students. I am looking forward to seeing your students in July!

Hiroshi Niino

Director,

Center for International Collaboration
Kochi University 
 2-5-1 Akebono-cho, Kochi 780-8520 JAPAN  

Dear Mie University exchange partners,

Hello. This is Toshiki Wakabayashi in charge of exchange program at Mie 
University.
The exchange student application will be opened from February 1st for 
Fall 2019 !
The application deadline is February 25th, 2019.

For the detailed information, check the points 1 to 6 below.

1. The application documents can be downloaded from the following URL.
English
＜http://www.mie-u.ac.jp/en/international/studyabroad/prospective/types-procedures/exchange/special-student.html＞
Japanese
＜http://www.mie-u.ac.jp/international/studyabroad/prospective/types-procedures/exchange/special-student.html＞

2. Please read through "Guidebook for Exchange Students". This guidebook 
shows
how to apply, about the dormitory, insurance, part-time job etc. We hope
it helps you.

3. In order to process the application smoothly, please send
application documents by PDF and Excel files before you send us 
documents by air-mail.
(For "Questionnaire for Certificate of Eligibility", please send by 
Excel file, NOT by paper.)

4. We included a pair of checklists in the necessary documents list. 
Please check if the applicants filled the list and
there is no missing documents before you send the application documents. 
We would like you to submit the checklists as well.

5. Each faculty (graduate school) can accept up to 3 applicants from 
each partner university.
If you have more than 3 applicants, please divide the applicants into 
faculties.

6. As for "Certificate of Health" and "Certificate of Scholarship", we 
can accept after February 25th,
so if your students cannot prepare these two documents by the deadline, 
please let us know.

Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us.


If you have no idea about this e-mail, I am sorry to trouble you, but
please forward this email to a responsible department.

Sincerely yours,
Toshiki Wakabayashi

Toshiki Wakabayashi (Mr.)
1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu-city, Mie, Japan
International Relations Office,
Academic Affairs and Information Department
Mie University
Tel:+81-(0)59-231-9688
Mail:ryugaku@ab.mie-u.ac.jp(To office)
Mail:wakabayashi.toshiki.rs@ab.mie-u.ac.jp(Personal)
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Dear Partners,

Greetings from the International Center at Kanagawa University!

As we have already sent you the invitation letter with the program leaflets, we would like to announce you again that our“Kanagawa University Japanese Language and Culture Program”will be held in summer 2019 and winter 2020.

This program is designed to provide the opportunity to learn Japanese language and culture to students from all over the world.
Please kindly note that target participants are from absolute beginner to pre-intermediate (N3/Level3 or less in Japanese Language Preficiency Test.) Beginners are welcome!

We would like to invite two students from your university for each of the programs (summer and winter) and halve the participation fee (partner university discount)* for the students recommended.
We would be very grateful if you could nominate if you could nominate two students by March 29, 2019, for the summer program and September 30, 2019, for the winter program and send the application documents for both students with the "Letter of Nomination" attached to the this email.
Application fee（Non refundable）：JPY 30,000
Participation fee：JPY65,000（Usually  JPY 130,000）
(Not including round-trip air fare, meals, housing, living expenses, transportation expenses, insurance fee, medical expenses etc.)

Additional information including online application can be found on our website below:
http://www.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/english/admissions/japanese_language.html

We ask your cooperation to announce this opportunity to your students as much as possible.
Please contact us if you have any queries or require further information.

Warmest regards,

Noriko MAKINO (Ms)
https://www.facebook.com/kujapaneseprogram

Greetings from Singapore Management University (SMU)!

We would like to invite your undergraduate students and recent graduates to join the SMU Global Summer Programme (GSP) 2019 - Asian Insights (1 to 26 July 2019 in SMU).

The four-week programme will be a rewarding experience for your students to:

ü  Gain new insights and perspectives on trends and developments in Asia from SMU faculty through taking 1 or 2 SMU courses

ü  Engage Asian industry leaders through dialogues, networking sessions and company visits

ü  Learn from, get to know, and build networks and friendships with students from more than 30 countries

ü  Experience culturally rich and diverse Singapore through GSP field trips and socio-cultural activities

We are happy to offer a GSP tuition fee discount of 10% to all your students, should there be 6 or more sign-ups from your university.

Should you wish to promote this programme on your university website, we would be happy to send our website information pack for your use.

Administrative matters

• We hope you could share our appended eDM below and the attached e-brochure with all your undergraduates and recent graduates.
• Should you require hardcopies of the GSP brochure, please let us know who we should mail this to and provide us with your mailing address.
• Please note that in addition to the GSP tuition fee, a separate miscellaneous fee of $217.83 will be applicable for all applicants. This fee would cover local insurance needs of students, matriculation, IT services, usage of SMU facilities and GSP activities for the students.
• Should you have any queries about the programme, please email us at smusummer@smu.edu.sg.

We sincerely hope to work with you on the above and look forward to receiving and hosting your students at the SMU Global Summer Programme 2019.

Thank you.

Warmest regards

Global Summer Programme Team

KNOW, EXPERIENCE, AND CONNECT WITH ASIA

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Dear Esteemed Partner,

Greetings from Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Thailand!

We are pleased to invite students from your esteemed university to
participate in the PSU 2019 Thai Cultural Camp, which will take place from
July 7-27, 2019. There will be 21 amazing days in the Land of Smiles, for
a maximum of 60 participants from around the world, full of cultural
discoveries: Thai cooking, Thai boxing, Thai music, Thai dance,
Traditional Thai Medicine, as well as field trips and excursions to famous
tourist destinations.

Since we value our partnership with your respected university, we are
happy to provide big discounts to your students / staff joining our camp,
from 10-30%, as the details in the Discounted Rates file attached
herewith.

Participants benefit of discounts only if they are nominated by their
university via the attached Application Form. Individual applications are
possible, but no discount will apply.

Please be informed that the number of participants is limited at 60 and
they will be accepted on the basis of “first-come, first-served.” For your
information, even if the deadline for nomination is the end of February
2018, we may close the applications once the seats are fully booked.
Therefore, kindly nominate your student as soon as possible, in order to
ensure seats for them.

Important Dates:
- 1 March 2019: final day for nominating participants (send completed
Application Form);
! applications may be closed earlier once the 60 seats are fully booked
(to be informed via email)
- 31 March 2019: last day for Early Bird Rate Discounts
- 30 April: final date for completing the payment.

We would really appreciate if students applying are sure that they are
able to come in July 2019 to PSU, in order to not keep booked the seats in
disadvantage of other applicants.

The discounted fees include:
- tuition fee
- airport pick-up and drop-off at Hat Yai International Airport
- accommodation in a nice hotel
- local transportation to field trips and excursions
- most of meals.
Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses,
international health & accident insurance, some meals, and other personal
expenses.

Please find attached the official Invitation Letter, Tentative Program,
Discounted Rates document, Application Form, Camp’s Details, and Camp’s
brochure for your further perusal.

Should you have any inquiry, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your kind coordination and we look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,

Maria

Mrs. Ana Maria Pavel
International Affairs Office
Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai Campus
Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, THAILAND
www.interaffairs.psu.ac.th
www.en.psu.ac.th
Facebook: Interaffairs Psu
Tel +66 (0)74 282254
Fax +66 (0)74 446825
Email: ana.p@psu.ac.th / psu-international@psu.ac.th

Dear student,

Applications are now open for Leeds International Summer School (LISS) 2019: www.leeds.ac.uk/summer.

Study at the University of Leeds and immerse yourself in British culture as part of an exciting four-week programme. LISS combines world-class tuition with academic field trips and includes social activities and cultural excursions.

LISS will run 6 July to 3 August 2019.

If you are unable to attend for the full duration there is an opportunity to join the wider group for two weeks of the programme. Please contact us to find out more.

Earn credit and choose from academic subject areas including Arts & Humanities, Business, Communication, Computing, Design, Engineering, Politics & International Studies, Sciences and Social Sciences: www.leeds.ac.uk/summerstudy.

The programme fee is £3,145. Scholarships are available as well as an early discount for applications received by 1 April. The fee includes tuition, on campus accommodation, breakfast and lunch Monday – Friday, premium gym membership, academic field trips, cultural excursions and a social programme.

Apply online: www.leeds.ac.uk/summerapply.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries: summer@leeds.ac.uk and follow us on Facebook andInstagram for regular updates. We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds next summer!

Best wishes

The LISS Team

Leeds International Summer School

Study Abroad Office | University of Leeds 
Level 11 | The Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building

Leeds | LS2 9JT | United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)113 343 7900 | E: summer@leeds.ac.uk

Leeds International Summer School: www.leeds.ac.uk/summer