The Joint Study mobility programme offers students the opportunity to spend one or two semesters at an international partner university. Unlike Erasmus+, Joint Study focuses primarily on worldwide exchanges, mostly outside the EU.

What is Joint-Study?

Joint Study is based on bilateral agreements between TU Wien and selected partner universities worldwide. Participants have the opportunity to gain valuable experience abroad as part of their regular studies – without additional tuition fees at the host university.

Advantages of the programme

• Tuition fee exemption at the partner university
• Individual choice of a study place at renowned universities worldwide
• Academic recognition of credits earned abroad
• Possibility of financial support (e.g. travel grants, mobility grants)

Basic requirements

• Regular studies at TUW
• Successful completion of a minimum number of ECTS credits (e.g. 90 ECTS in a Bachelor's programme) – Partner-specific requirements
• Fulfilment of the language and admission requirements of the host university
• Timely application via the Service Unit Student and Staff Exchange Services (E063-01)

Application and procedure

The exact procedure and application requirements may vary slightly depending on the partner university and the programme guidelines. More information can be found on the respective detailed programme pages.

Different programme lines within Joint-Study

The Joint Study programme offers several different mobility formats: 

Japan programmes

Stays in Japan are financed by Joint-Study, but the content is supervised by the Japan Austria Science Exchange Center (JASEC), opens in new window. These programmes offer particularly intensive academic and cultural insights.
The scholarships are administered by the Service Unit E063-01 – Student and Staff Exchange Services.

More information: Japan >>

Double Degree programmes

In cooperation with selected universities worldwide, there is the opportunity to obtain an international Double Degree. These programmes usually have their own application and study structures and are organised under separate arrangements.

• China -  Double Degree at Tongji University
• Germany - Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Double Degree Logic and Computation
• TIME Programme (Double Degree Studies in France, Italy, Spain, Japan)

TASSEP

TASSEP (Trans-Atlantic Science Student Exchange Programme) enables students from the study programmes Technical Chemistry and Technical Physics to participate in a tuition-free exchange with North American partner universities.

More information: https://www.tuwien.at/en/studies/international/studying-abroad/mobility-programmes/joint-study-north-america/canada-usa-tassep

One- to two-semester stays

Application deadlines may vary depending on the partner university, particularly due to different semester times (e.g. in Asia, North America or Australia). Please check the respective periods in a timely manner.

Please also note the respective field of study and the required level of study (some partnerships only accept Master's students). 

Award: Ranking and selection are carried out by academic coordinators appointed by the faculties and by coordinators from International Relations and Global Affairs, taking into account your data, the available places and your qualifications.

Asia
(Specifying a second choice increases the chances of nomination)

• China - City University of Hong Kong
• China - Shenzen University
• Japan - JAPAN POOL
• Korea - Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
• Korea - Pusan National University
• Taiwan - National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung
• Taiwan - National Taipei University of Technology

Latin America

• Argentina - Universidad Technológica Nacional de Buenos Aires
• Brazil - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
• Brazil - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

North America

• Canada - McGill University Montreal
• USA - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Europe

• France - EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis