Ph.D students can access Erasmus Funding to support their period abroad, that is, the Erasmus’ scholarship is compatible with the Ph.D. Scholarship (“borsa di dottorato”). We support your applications and we believe it is a good opportunity to offset some of the expenses.
Notice that your period abroad needs the approval of the entire PhD board (collegio docenti) before the application deadline; my approval alone is not sufficient.
Obtaining the approval of the PhD board is not immediate. To guarantee that your application is approved, you have to
- fill in the paperwork for your period abroad
- upload your paperwork to get my approval on your period abroad
- send the approved paperwork for the period abroad to the PhD office (dottorati@unimib.it)
- send the Erasmus application to the international students’ office, with the date of the PhD board approval of your periods abroad.
We are going to have a special meeting of the PhD board for approving your period abroad, but that requires you to send the paperwork for your period abroad to the PhD office (i.e. step 3 above) at least 2 weeks before the deadline. Notice that you do not have to send your Erasmus application 2 week in advance. We will inform you of the exact date of the special PhD meeting to approve your period abroad: Send us an email if you don’t have that information.
Beware that the PhD board can only approve period abroad applications that have been validated by the university PhD office.
This means that applications that reach the PhD office too late might not be approved by the board in time.
Beware also of the eligibility rules. If a student’s scholarship is activated using European funds, including funds indirectly provided by the EU (e.g., the PNRR and PON programs), the student is not eligible for the Erasmus scholarship. This is because the activity funded by the scholarship would be considered double-funded.
Yet, there are some opportunities for the students with scholarships activated using European funds. In particular:
Students can still apply to Erasmus Traineeship calls. In fact, the scholarship provided as an outcome of the call consists of two components: the first component derives from the EU and the second component derives from UniMiB’s fundings. Students with scholarships activated using European funds cannot benefit from the first component (the one that derives from the EU), but can benefit from the second component, the one that derives from UniMiB’s funds. The amount of that component depends on the income (ISEE) of the student. The application process is in all the cases the same, the difference in only on the outcome: students with scholarships activated on EU funds are assigned with the second component only, while the rest of the students can benefit of both components.
All students, including the ones with scholarships activated with EU funds, can apply to the Exchange Extra EU calls, since these are calls entirely funded by UniMiB.
If in doubt, contact the relevant office.