Incoming Exchange Students

Before you can apply for an exchange semester to Idar-Oberstein, you need to get nominated by your home-institution.

Ask the responsible person (teacher, exchange officer, etc) to send an email to studyservice-io(at)hochschule-trier.de with the following 4 informations:

1. your name,
2. your emailadress,
3. your course of study and the year/semester you are currently in,
4. in which semester would you like to be an exchange student:
   in winter or in summer?

After being nominated you will be contacted by us with an individual upload address on our university file-server to upload your application to. (please do NOT send any documents per email or post!)

Please prepare and upload the following documents:

1. your recent and complete CV, (name it: YourName_CV.pdf)
2. your portfolio, (name it: YourName_Portfolio.pdf)
3. a transcript of records, (name it: YourName_TOR.pdf)
4. a letter of motivation on your choice of the University in Idar-Oberstein for your exchange semester on max. 1 DinA4. (name it: YourName_Motivation.pdf)
5. Erasmus+ Application_Form (download as WORD or PDF) (name it: YourName_Application.pdf)
6. Erasmus+ Learning_Agreement (download as WORD or PDF) (name it: YourName_LearningAgreement.pdf)
7. a readable (!) copy/photo/scan of your passport or ID (name it: YourName_ID.pdf)

All 7 documents need to be formated as PDF.
Applications over 10 MB will be rejected so please compress your files (for instance with https://pdfcompressor.com, here you can also transfer JPG to PDF). 

Deadlines of application:

• 1st of December for the following summer semester (1st Mar. - 31st Aug.)
• 1st of June for the following winter semester (1st Sep. - 28th Feb.)

Within 2 weeks after the application deadline, you will receive the result of the assessment of your application. If you get "Notice of Acceptance" as exchange student, please continue with:

In an online interview we will check your language capacities and your motivation to study in our University as an exchange student.

Within 1 week after the interview, you will receive the result of your application.
If you get a "Notice of Acceptance", please continue with:

After receiving Notice of Acceptance from our department, you need to register as a student. Your Notice of Acceptance will hold all information how to do this.