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International mobility is defined by outgoing students and incoming students. They are ruled by agreements and structured programs such as Open Mobility Programs, Specific Mobility Programs, Special Mobility Programs and Short-Term Internships.
Open Mobility
This mobility is defined in the exchange agreements and/or “framework” general agreements that allow one-semester exchanges, and in special cases, one-year exchanges in all the areas or disciplines available in our university and partner institutions.
Specific Mobility
This mobility is defined in specific areas and/or between faculties or departments, allowing the exchange in predefined fields. There are mobility programs in the areas of speech and hearing therapy, nursing, translation and interpretation, among others.
- University of Kassel:
This is a program that facilitates student mobility with the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Coordinator: Gunhild Hansen-Rojas, PhD
Coordinator of Cooperation UdeC/Germany
Extension: 3328/1206
Email: hansen-rojas@udec.cl
- Leipzig University:
This is an ISAP program that facilitates the student mobility for students of the Translation and Interpretation program of the Faculty of Humanities and Art.
Coordinator: Gabriela Kotz Grabole, PhD, Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Humanities and Art.
Extension: 1535
Email: gkotz@udec.cl
- Laval University:
This is a program that facilitates the student mobility for students of the Social Work Academic Program of both universities.
Coordinator: Myriam Vallejos Salazar, PhD
Extension: 3992
Email: mivallej@udec.cl
- Rennes Institute of Political Studies, IEP Rennes.
This program facilitates the student mobility for students of the Political Sciences Academic Program of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.
Coordinator: María Inés Picazo Verdejo, PhD
Extension: 4249
Email: mpicazo@udec.cl
- Wilfrid Laurier University:
This program facilitates the student mobility for students of the Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology Academic Programs.
Coordinator: Beatriz Cid Aguayo, PhD
Faculty of Social Sciences
Extension: 3066
Email: beatrizcid@udec.cl
- MARCA Program (MERCOSUR):
This program promotes reciprocal knowledge on the academic training of the accredited undergraduate academic programs, the comparability of curriculum structures and the accreditation of courses of the MERCOSUR countries.
It includes the Faculty of Agronomy with countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. Partial financing through the FDI.
Coordinator: Guillermo Wells, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Agronomy
Extension: 8817
Email: gwells@udec.cl
- Semester Abroad Grants:
This grant is exclusively directed to students of the English Teaching Academic Program of accredited universities (Law No 20.129) who are in their second-to-last or last year of academic studies.
Coordinator: Lilian Gómez Araya, PhD.
Extension: 7472
Email: ligomez@udec.cl
Application period: March-April
Application to Mineduc: May-June
- Vocation as a Teacher Study Grants:
This grant allows you to study abroad in a foreign institution for one academic semester. You can take courses of the teaching area or the areas of your specialty, which must be accredited by your university upon your return to Chile.
Coordinator: Lilian Gómez Araya, PhD
Extension: 7472
Email: ligomez@udec.cl
Application period:
http://portal.beneficiosestudiantiles.cl/beca-vocacion-de-profesor-pedagogia-beneficio-semestre-en-el-extranjero
- Foreign Language Assistant: British Council + UK Schools: Assistant:
Grant given by the British Council to English Teaching students to do their internship for one year in the United Kingdom. Accredited by the Faculty of Education.
Coordinator: María Jesús Inostroza Araos, PhD
Extension: 3757
Email: minostroza@udec.cl
Application Period: December and March to travel by August and September.
- Student Mobility Program in Mathematical Engineering:
This program allows the students of this area to go on a one-semester exchange at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Coordinator: Gabriel Gática Pérez, PhD, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Extension: 3121
Email: ggatica@udec.cl
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands and Ghent University, Belgium:
This program allows the students of the School of Dentistry to go on an internship and clinical practices and vice versa.
Coordinator: Verónica Cabezas, PhD. Delegate of International Affairs, School of Dentistry.
Extension: 4416
Mail: vcabezas@udec.cl
- Program of Student Mobility CINDA (lnter University Center for Development):
Network of Universities from Latin America and Europe. Its objective is to promote the exchange for undergraduate and graduate students.
Coordinator: Cecilia Collado G, PhD.
Extension: 4989
Email: ccollado@udec.cl
- Dual Degree Program, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain.
Coordinators:
Guillermo Wells, PhD. Dean of the Faculty of Agronomy
Extension: 8817
Email: gwells@udec.cl
Patricio Rojas C, PhD. Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
Extension: 8786
Email: projas@udec.cl
- University of Dijon:
This program promotes the student mobility for Graduate Students of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
Coordinator: Álvaro Escobar G, MA. Delegate of International Affairs for the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
Extension: 4191
Email: aescobar@udec.cl
- Osgoode Hall Law School. University of York, Canada:
This program promotes the student mobility for students of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.
Coordinator: Amaya Alvez, PhD, Delegate of International Affairs for the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.
Extension: 4216
Email: aalvez@udec.cl
Special Programs
They are defined as short-term programs generally for specific areas or disciplines. Immersion programs in the areas of languages, culture, astronomy, business and natural environment are included.
- Astronomy Immersion Program with the University of Cincinnati:
This a two-week program (short-term) with the University of Cincinnati, United States in the astronomy area. Here the students have the opportunity to visit astronomical observatories in northern Chile.
Coordinator: Ricardo De Marco López, PhD., Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Extension: 7247
Email: rdemarco@udec.cl
- Nursing Practice Immersion Program
This is an exchange program with St. Cloud State University. The purpose of this program is to allow the students to embrace an on-field experience to know the way in which the profession is developed, and the emphases given on that country.
- Speech and Hearing Therapy Immersion Program:
This is an exchange program with St. Cloud State University. The purpose of this program is to allow the students to embrace an on-field experience to know the way in which the profession is developed, and the emphases given on that country.
Coordinator: Omar Salazar Provoste, PhD.
Extension: 4782
Email: osalazar@udec.cl
Internships
This program offers a professional training opportunity to students of the Faculty of Education of UdeC through a one-semester internship in public schools of the Minnetonka district. This program is financially supported by the Minnetonka district and our university, which allows the students to stay in the United States for one semester. To date, 47 students from different academic programs of the Faculty of Education (Nursery Education, Basic Education, Spanish Teaching, History) have participated in this program.
- University Immersion Program:
This program offers foreign students the opportunity to learn the Spanish language through an academic experience and an immersion process within the local culture. For this, each student will live with a Chilean family for one semester and will have travels for knowledge acquisition related to the culture and geography. Regarding the academic area, the student must complete 15 credits by taking two mandatory courses (Spanish Language and Latin American literature) and 3 courses chosen from the student’s interest area.
- Language and Culture Short-Term Program:
This program offers foreign students the opportunity to learn the Spanish language by living an academic experience and participating in knowledge-acquisition activities related to the local culture. This program is conceived for foreign students who want to spend their vacation period living a Study Abroad experience at St. Cloud State University. Regarding the academic area, the student must take two mandatory courses (Spanish Language and one elective course related to the specialty) and visits to places of cultural, economic, historical or natural interest.
- Art Immersion Program:
This program offers foreign students the opportunity to learn about art and culture through an academic experience and participating in knowledge-acquisition activities related to the local culture. This program is conceived for foreign students who want to spend their vacation period living a Study Abroad experience.
- SCSU-UdeC Academic Exchange Program:
This program is a cooperation opportunity to do internships up to one semester involving teaching and research work. This program has made it possible to deliver courses in cooperation with the Social Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology and Hispanic Linguistics areas.
- Nazareth College:
This program promotes the learning of the English language for scholars, students and administrative staff to participate in intensive English courses in the United States.
Coordinator: Lilian Gómez, PhD
Foreign Languages Department, Faculty of Humanities and Art
Extension: 7472
Email: ligomez@udec.cl
- French Language Program for Mobility and Exchange:
This program facilitates mobility to students of all academic programs to achieve proficiency level B1 according to the Common European Framework of reference for languages. It allows the students to apply for grants and do internships in a French-speaking university.
Coordinator: Maritza Nieto, PhD
Foreign Languages Department, Faculty of Humanities and Art
Extension:4522
Email: mnieto@udec.cl
- Dual Degree Program for Students of the MA in Linguistics and for TESOL Students of SCSU
This program promotes the opportunity to obtain graduate training in both universities and receive a degree in both UdeC and SCSU.
Coordinator: Omar Salazar P., PhD
Spanish Language Department, Faculty of Humanities and Art
Extension: 4782
Email: osalazar@udec.cl