The Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies (CEEPUS) is a regional academic mobility programme. The Central European Exchange Programme started on the 1st of December 1994, when the CEEPUS Treaty (signed in Budapest in 1993) came into force. Croatia signed the CEEPUS Treaty in 1995, and alongside Croatia, the following countries usually participate in the program: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia. In the academic year 2009/2010, the University of Pristina in Kosovo joined the programme, and in the academic year 2011/2012 Moldova.
On the 1st of May 2011, the CEEPUS III treaty entered into force for a period of fourteen years. The CEEPUS III Treaty focuses on the development of joint studies and cooperation in the 9th Priority Area: ‘People and Skills’ of the EU Danube Strategy (EUSDR).
CEEPUS Networks
The CEEPUS programme primarily aims to promote mobility within CEEPUS networks. The CEEPUS network consists of at least three members from at least two CEEPUS Member States, where one member has the role of network coordinator. In practice, the number of members within the network is much higher. Coordinators and partners may be higher education institutions and their constituents. In addition to mobility achieved through networks, it is also possible to achieve non-network mobility within CEEPUS (freelancers or free-movers).
Scholarships
Each year, CEEPUS signatory countries decide the quota of scholarships available for incoming mobility using the internal currency of “one scholarship month”. Funds are not transferred in the CEEPUS programme, but instead each country pays incoming students and staff via the participating universities. These rates are adjusted to the local costs of living.
Countries also determine the number of scholarships that are available for the different categories of scholarship holders, as well as the other rights that CEEPUS scholarship holders have (for example, free accommodation, subsidized food, health insurance). Scholarships depend on the standard of living in a particular country and must be sufficient for mobility needs. Students are also exempt from paying tuition fees.
You can find out more on the web pages of the CEEPUS programme about the scholarships are for each country and what rights CEEPUS scholarship holders have in a particular country. Some CEEPUS signatory countries cover the travel expenses for outgoing scholarship holders.
How can you participate?
More detailed information about the ways in which higher education institutions participate in the CEEPUS networks, as well more information about the opportunities for students and staff mobility in the CEEPUS programme can be found on the following link.
Contacts
National Office for CEEPUS in Croatia
Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes
Frankopanska, 26
10000 Zagreb
- T: +385 (0)1 555 7855
- E-mail: ceepus@mobilnost.hr
List of CEEPUS networks at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka (FFRI)
| Network | Name | FFRI Coordinator |
|---|---|---|
| AT-0103-17-2223 | Cognitive Science, Knowledge Studies, and Knowledge Technologies | Dr Neven Petrović npetrovic@ffri.uniri.hr Department of Philosophy |
| SI-0711-11-2223 (Umbrella) | TRANS – TRANSkulturelle Kommunikation und TRANSlation | Dr Petra Žagar Šoštarić pzagar@ffri.uniri.hr Department of German Studies |
| SI-0906-08-2223 (Umbrella) | Pedagogy and Andragogy in Central Europe (PACE) | Ivana Miočić ivana.miocic@uniri.hr Department of Pedagogy |
| HU-1201-06-2223 | German as a Foreign Language in Central and Eastern Europe: New Perspectives of Teacher Training | Prof. Aneta Stojić astojic@ffri.uniri.hr Department of German Studies |
| HR-1504-01-2021 | Neuroshare: Sharing tools and expertise in behavioral neuroscience | Dr Asmir Gračanin agracanin@ffri.uniri.hr Department of Psychology |