What is the aim of this booklet?
This booklet provides basic information on the Charles University in Prague and the courses offered by its Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové. It has been compiled to help prospective ERASMUS students to get prepared for their period of study at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové.
What is ECTS?
ECTS, the European Community Course Credit Transfer System, was developed by the European Commission to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing academic achievements and transferring them from one institution to another throughout the European Union and another eligible countries of Central and Eastern Europe to allow students to study their chosen subjects abroad.
ERASMUS students
The European Commission provides certain number of student mobility grants per year for each participating institution. The selection of students to receive these grants is carried out by each institution. Students may only be awarded grants if they fulfill the general conditions of eligibility for the ERASMUS grant. These are:
- students must be citizens of one of the EU member states or citizen of one of the eligible Central European countries
- students will not be required to pay the tuition fees at the host institution, the students may, however, be required to continue to pay tuition fees at the home institution during their period of studies abroad
- the national grant/loan to which a student may be entitled for studies at the home institution may not be discontinued, interrupted or reduced while the student is studying in another EU member state and is receiving an ERASMUS grant
- the period of studies abroad should not last less than 3 months or more than one year
- students in their first year of studies are not eligible to receive an ERASMUS grant