Erasmus and international exchange students: application, choice of classes and registration

Nomination

Incoming exchange students have to be nominated by email to the relevant UPCité International Relations Office:

Administrative contacts:
– for Erasmus and bilateral students: emmanuelle.jego@u-paris.fr or mobility.sh@u-paris.fr
– for MICEFA and Study Abroad students: mobility.iro@u-paris.fr
– for Circle U students: paula-andrea.pastrana-martinez@u-paris.fr 

Deadline for nomination:
– first semester (Fall term) or year: 15th May 2024
– second semester (Spring term): 15th October 2024

MoveOn application

After nominations are received, incoming exchange students have to apply on Université Paris Cité’s MoveOn portal. You will be sent the link by email, with guidelines on how to apply.

Deadline for application:
– first semester (Fall term) or year: 15th May 2024 (except for MICEFA students)
– second semester (Spring term): 30th October 2024 (except for MICEFA students). 

• Students from European universities, including the United Kingdom, must complete the Application for incoming students / Erasmus+ / Studies. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose « Erasmus études ».
• Students coming from universities outside Europe must complete the Application for incoming students / International universities / Studies. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose “Bilatéral Etudes”
• Students from the MICEFA program must complete the Application for incoming students / MICEFA. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose “MICEFA »

As part of the MoveOn application, incoming students can apply for university housing, but please note that Université Paris Cité only has very few rooms. For more accomodation options, see the Accomodation webpage.

Learning agreement

Your MoveOn application file will have to include a learning agreement, i.e. the list of classes you will wish to attend at Université Paris Cité.

If you don’t already have a learning agreement template, you use those available here. You are of course also free to use your own university’s template if you want.

You can find information about modules in Anglophone Studies here: https://u-paris.fr/etudes-anglophones/modules-in-english/. Please note that catalogues for the next academic year are only updated during the summer; so some changes in the offer might occur.

For modules in other disciplines, please consult the websites listed in the section below (« Choice of classes for academic registration »).

Please note that this is only a first draft of your learning agreement, used to complete your Moveon application and to give you a first idea of which courses might be of interest for you. Your choice of courses will probably have to evolve based on the department’s new course catalogue (often slightly different from that of the previous year) and on the teaching timetables of our and other departments. New catalogues and timetables are usually issued at the end of the summer. They can then be used to draft a concrete list of the courses you would like to be registered for (see below “Choice of classes for academic registration”).

Before you upload your learning agreement on MoveOn, you need to have it signed by the academic coordinator for incoming students, Dr. Clémence Follea (clemence.follea@u-paris.fr).

Language certificate

The requested level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: CEFRL) is B2 in French, and B2 in English.

Note that if you take only English-taught classes from the UFR Etudes anglophones, the French language certificate may be waived. But then the language proficiency must be for English.

The following certifications are accepted:
– TOEFL (at least 90)
– IELTS (at least 5.5)
– Cambridge English Qualifications (at least 160, i.e. B2 or above)
– Certificate issued by the Language Resource Center of the home university
– Certificate issued by an English teacher from the home university
– proof that you are a Native speaker of English.

Official acceptation

Once your application is processed, you will be sent your offical letter of acceptance. Once you are offically enrolled at Université Paris Cité, you will receive your student number and will be able to activate your student account (see below).

Contact

Your primary contact for all administrative questions (on MoveOn applications, housing, enrollment, mobility certificates, transcripts of records, etc.) are:

for Erasmus and bilateral students: Ms. Emmanuelle Jego, at the International Relations Office of the Faculté Sociétés et Humanités: emmanuelle.jego@u-paris.fr or mobility.sh@u-paris.fr

for MICEFA and Study Abroad students: Ms. Emilie Irénée-Georges, at the International Relations Office of the Faculté Sociétés et Humanités: mobility.iro@u-paris.fr

for Circle U students: Ms. Paula Pastrana at the Direction Recherche, International, Valorisation & Écoles doctorale: paula-andrea.pastrana-martinez@u-paris.fr

Once the semester’s timetables are published (a few weeks before the beginning of term), it will be time to make your choice of classes a little more concrete: based on the semester’s timetables you will be required to build your own weekly schedule and define the definitive list of courses you wish to be registered for.

This is different from your learning agreement: you can use your LA as a basis but you will now have to consult the semester’s timetables to make sure your classes do not clash and build yourself a workable weekly schedule. Timetables are usually published a few weeks before the beginning of term.

In choosing your list of classes, please be mindful of clashes, make sure you have the correct amount of credits (or ‘ECTS’ in French) and follow the requirements listed below. Changes will be very difficult to implement once registration is complete so try to build a viable list of choices from the first.

Modules in Anglophone Studies

Please consult the page dedicated to modules in Anglophone Studies for incoming students at Université Paris Cité.

Modules in other disciplines

To register for modules in other departments (or UFRs), all international students will have to contact these departments directly.

You can find more information as well as relevant contact details by following the links below:

Modules in French as a Foreign Language (FLE) and other languages

Modules in the Humanities (French literature, linguistics, history, geography, philosophy, sociology, economics, cinema, etc.) WARNING: most of those modules are taught in French.

Modules in Asian Languages

Modules in Sports

Requirements and restrictions

The policy of Université Paris Cité is to open most classes offered by the various departments (UFR) to all exchange students, subject to the following requirements and restrictions:

– Undergraduate and postgraduate students normally register for 60 ECTS for the full year, 30 ECTS per term. However, the home university may prefer an exchange student to take fewer ECTS than normally required. Please check with your home university.

– Exchange students must register for at least two classes per term in their host department (i.e. UFR to which they have been nominated). In the case of students from English-speaking countries nominated to the UFR Etudes Anglophones, this requirement may be reduced to only one class per term with the UFR Etudes Anglophones.

– Access to modules in psychology is restricted to students nominated to the UFR Etudes Psychanalitiques.

– Access to modules in film studies offered by the Département LSH and the UFR LAC is restricted to students nominated to the UFR LAC. However, the UFR Etudes Anglophones offers a variety of modules in film and visual studies which international students can have access to.

– You can register for classes only in the departments belonging to the Grands Moulins Campus. 

– Exchange students must have a B2 level in French; this requirement may be waived for students who only register for English-taught courses in the UFR Etudes Anglophones (although it is recommanded to have a decent command of French to deal with everyday life in Paris)

Classes normally start mid- September for the 1st semester (Fall term), and mid-January for the 2nd semester (Spring term). Please note that the resit exams for both terms take place at the end of June.

The dates given below correspond to the calendar of the Anglophone Studies Department. Other Departments usually follow a similar calendar – however, please make sure you visit each Department’s webpage to confirm their dates (see the links listed in the section above).

Fall term (first semester) 2023/24

The 2023/24 first-term welcome week for mobility students will start on 11th September 2022 (see below).

Classes start on 18th September 2023. Please note that registration for classes usually takes place one or two weeks before the beginning of classes.

Autumn holiday: 28th October to 5th November 2023

Last week of class: week of 11th December 2023

Exam session: 18th to 22nd December 2023 + 8th to 12th January 2024

Winder holiday: 23rd December 2023 to 7th January 2024

** Note on exams: for some classes all the evaluation is done in classes during term, while for others exams take place after term. Your instructor will explain whether or not you have to sit an exam in December/January. If as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris in January, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange an alternative.

Spring term (second semester) 2023/24

The welcome week for mobility students will start on 16th January 2024 (see below).

Classes start on 22nd January 2024. Please note that registration for classes usually takes place one or two weeks before the beginning of classes.

Winter holiday: 17th to 26th February 2024

Easter holiday: 6th April to 22nd April 2024

Last week of class: week of 29th April 2024

Exams: 6th May to 17th May 2024

** Note on exams: for some classes all the evaluation is done in classes during term, while for others exams take place after term. Your instructor will explain whether or not you have to sit an exam in May. If as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris in May, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange an alternative.

Re-sits (both terms)

The re-sit exams FOR BOTH TERMS will take place from 10th to 28th June 2024. If, as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris by this time, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange (online) alternatives if it turns out that you do need a re-sit.

The 2023-24 second-term Welcome Week will be taking place from 15th to 20th January 2023. The program isn’t available yet.

Attendance is strongly recommended – on top of meeting other students, you will be given information on life on campus, on social security, on Parisian life, etc.

During the welcome week, the International Office of the Faculté SH will provide your student card as well as valuable information about your mobility.

If you cannot attend the welcome week, please write to your administrative contact (emmanuelle.jego@u-paris.fr for Erasmus and bilateral mobility students, mobility.iro@u-paris.fr for MICEFA and Study Abroad Students), so they can give you your student’s card.