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Incoming Erasmus Info

Erasmus Coordinator: Gabi Bodmeier

Tel: +49-30-838-52868
E-Mail: erasmus@jfki.fu-berlin.de

Dear Erasmus+ students

We are delighted to welcome you at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. To help you prepare for your stay, please take note of the following information. Freie Universität Berlin has started an online-portal for international students. It should help you prepare your stay in Berlin. On distributed-campus.org you find a time line and checklist, what you need to do when. You also find information about campus life, about Berlin, as well as online German language courses. You get the log-in data after your nomination from your home university.

Contact person at the institute

Your departmental Erasmus+ coordinator is Gabi Bodmeier. You can reach her at erasmus@ jfki.fu-berlin.de. Your departmental coordinator is responsible for signing the Learning Agreement and answering specific questions about courses and ECTS credits. Please direct general and administrative questions (e.g., regarding the enrollment process, confirmation of Stay/Erasmus+ certificates) to the central Erasmus+ Incoming Team at incoming@fu-berlin.de. Further information on the central Incoming Team can be found here: Information for Erasmus Incoming Students • Studium • Freie Universität Berlin.

Application

After you have been nominated as Erasmus student at the John F. Kennedy Institute by your home university to the Incoming Team, you will then receive all further information about application, enrollment at FU Berlin from the Incoming Team by email.

Enrollment
You can see the deadlines for matriculation in your confirmation of admission. Generally, the deadline for the winter semester is at the end of September/beginning of October, and for the summer semester at the end of March/beginning of April. It is very helpful if you turn in the requested documents as early as possible – this results in a pre-matriculation: That means you have your student ID when you arrive in Berlin, (Mensa and public transportation) your ZEDAT account (access to computers) and access to Campus Management (important for the choice of your courses)

You need the following documents for enrollment:

  • Confirmation of your Erasmus stay from your home university
  • Confirmation of health care
  • Payment confirmation for the payment of the semester ticket and the social fees for the upcoming semester
  • Valid personal ID (with Visa, if necessary)

Semester periods


Learning Agreement

Freie Universität Berlin uses the Online Learning Agreement (OLA) via the Erasmus+ Without Paper (EWP) platform. Please be sure to enter the name and functional address of your departmental coordinator erasmus@jfki.fu-berlin.de as the “Responsible Person” in the OLA so that it reaches the appropriate office. If your home university does not (yet) use the OLA, you can submit your Learning Agreement in PDF form. Please note that courses for the next semester are always updated a few weeks before the start of the semester. For this reason, you may need to make changes to your original Learning Agreement after selecting your courses.

Studying at the JFKI

Courses
You can find the current courses in the course catalog (link) To facilitate your course planning: OS (Proseminar / Orientation Seminar), S (Seminar), VS (Vertiefungsseminar / Advanced Seminar), V (Vorlesung / Lecture), HS (Hauptseminar / Graduate Course)

Closer to the start of the semester, the actual course catalog will of course be updated and you can choose the courses accordingly.

In addition, Erasmus+ students at the bachelor’s level have the opportunity to take courses from the interdisciplinary course offer for visiting students

Courses for international exchange students • Education • Freie Universität Berlin

(German) language courses are offered by the Language Center.Course Offer and Registration • Language Center. Studentshave the option of taking a 6-week German course (subject to a fee) before the start of the semester.

The language of instruction at the JFKI is English. Erasmus+ students must have a language level of C1 for enrollment.

ECTS
You can find a detailed listing of ECTS points per module at: https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/academics/ECTS .

The ECTS-Chart serves as an orientation. In individual cases - depending on the workload and agreement with the lecturer- ECTS can variate up to 2-3 additional ECTS.

Course Registration/ Campus Management
In the Campus Management System you need to register for courses of the John F. Kennedy-Institute. To do so, you need your ZEDAT access data which you will receive after completing your enrollment.

Please note the difference between restricted courses (with limited spots) and unrestricted courses. A detailed explanation will also be provided during the central orientation days.

If you want to take a course that is not part of your degree program, you must ask the course instructor if you are allowed to participate. If this is the case, no further online registration is required. Instead, at the end of the semester, you will be issued a certificate of achievement, which you can submit when applying for your Transcript of Records.


Libraries
During your Erasmus Stay at Freie Universität Berlin, besides The John F. Kennedy Institute Library, you can also use the University Library, the on-line catalog of FU, check out books and other media.

Transcript of Records and Confirmation of Stay/Attendance Certificate

You will receive your Confirmation of Stay from the central Incoming Team (incoming@fu-berlin.de).

 

Please request your transcript of records from the central Incoming Team. You will receive an email from the Incoming Team (from incoming@fu-berlin.de) explaining all the steps you need to take to request your transcript of records. Stay ends with the winter term

You will receive an email by 15 February

Stay ends with the summer term

You will receive an email by 15 July

 

 

 

Lecture and Course Catalog
Online-Studienfachwahl-Assistent (OSA)