International Relations & Partnerships (IRP) maintains, develops and administers UT-wide and multi-faculty partnerships with international universities to facilitate student, doctoral and staff mobility. IRP also coordinates the Erasmus+ programme at UT, supporting individual learning mobility, educational cooperation and policy development.
IRP is actively involved in maintaining contacts with existing partners, expanding existing relationships, and developing new relations. UT has over 190 agreements with European universities at bachelor’s level, and about 190 at master’s level; 22 UT-wide agreements with partner institutions outside Europe, and an additional 57 non-EEA agreements at faculty level. Each year, approximately 600 UT students undertake an exchange abroad (for courses, an internship or a graduation project) and in return we welcome about 500 incoming exchange students from partner universities.
As well as facilitating mobility activities, IRP supports incoming international degree students by identifying new external scholarship providers, negotiating contracts, and maintaining partnerships with existing scholarship providers.
IRP is home to the Institutional Erasmus+ Coordinator and Agreement Coordinators who can establish multi-faculty agreements. Furthermore, IRP is involved in various networks and representative bodies, and provides policy advice on international relations, mobility of learners and scholarship programmes within UT, as well as externally.
Mobility opportunities
Below you can find information about mobility opportunities for students and staff members.
Types of Partnerships
Partnerships with universities
In order to facilitate global experiences for UT students and staff members, UT has formal global academic partnerships, as well as other types of university-wide and faculty-specific partnerships with international universities. All of these partnerships are of great importance to UT’s internationalisation strategy and UT collaborates closely with international universities on numerous educational and research projects. To enable international exchange, research and internship opportunities for UT students and employees, the IRP team manages UT-wide partnerships with 18 partner institutions in 10 non-EU countries.
Partnerships with scholarship providers
IRP supports incoming international degree-seeking students by identifying new external scholarship providers, negotiating contracts, and maintaining partnerships with existing scholarship providers.
Partnerships with (non-) governmental organisations
IRP holds relationships with a number of governmental and non-governmental organisations.
UT-wide partnerships
The IRP team manages the below UT-wide (multi-faculty) agreements.
UT also has university-wide global academic partnerships and faculty-specific agreements that are managed at the faculty level. To discover all of UT’s partner universities, visit the Mobility Online Search Portal.
Setting up an agreement with UT
UT's vision: shaping 2030
Our partnerships are informed by UT's vision as the ultimate people-first university of technology. We aim to empower society through sustainable solutions. Our vision Shaping 2030 directs special attention to three societal themes and the challenges they pose; these can all be framed in a single question: how can we contribute to the development of a digital, fair, and sustainable society between now and 2030?
Inter-insitutional agreements
The term Inter-Institutional Agreement (IIA) is used for different kinds of agreements on academic cooperation between higher education institutions, such as a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) and Student/ Staff Exchange Agreements. Agreements on joint programmes (at a bachelor/ master/ PhD level) and consortia agreements (e.g. EIT Digital) have a different procedure.
When a new collaboration initiative is proposed, a UT Agreement Coordinator facilitates the establishment of the formal and legal contract. The procedure can take from three months to one year. The steps involved include orientation and assessment, agreement negotiation, preparation and signing, registration, and monitoring, evaluation and (possible) renewal. For further information, contact the Faculty Coordinator International Affairs or the Administrator Exchange Agreements.
Mobility Online expertise
Student and staff mobility, partnerships and inter-institutional agreements all come together in a tool called Mobility Online. IRP are involved in registering and retrieving the mobility and scholarship information stored in this database. To access data in Mobility Online, contact the Key User.
Useful links
Below you can find information relating to mobility at UT.
The contents of this publication are the responsibility of the University of Twente and do not necessarily reflect the view of the European Commission. The European Commission will not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication. The information is correct at the time of writing. In the case of any discrepancy between this publication and official Erasmus+ publications, the Erasmus+ publications apply. |
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