The Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication offers a variety of opportunities for students interested in perfecting their language skills, broadening their cultural horizons and acquiring personal autonomy or carrying out internship experiences outside national borders, through:
- study stays under Erasmus+ and similar projects
- internships abroad
- double degrees
- scholarships for short stays abroad, aimed at acquiring ECTS/CFU abroad (with particular reference to winter and summer schools) or at writing a Master’s thesis
Scholarships are provided for many of these programmes to cover travel and subsistence expenses.
Erasmus+ programme
Erasmus+ agreements provide for a grant of 250, 300 or 350 euros per month (depending on the cost of living) for European destinations and 500 euros per month for non-European destinations. The “International mobility for K107 credits” programme, for those who choose study stays in non-EU countries, provides a monthly grant of 750 euros. There are also additional contributions from the European Union and the MUR and other support measures for students in particularly vulnerable circumstances.
There is more information on the programme on the dedicated page.
The Department currently has study mobility exchanges with the following countries:
European countries:
- Austria: Innsbruck
- France: Aix-Marseille, Avignon, Besançon, Grenoble, Le Havre, Lyon, Paris, Perpignan
- Germany: Friedrichshafen, Freiburg, Giessen, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Saarbrücken
- Great Britain: Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Reading
- Greece: Atene
- Poland: Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw
- Czech Republic: Brno
- Spain: Cádiz, Granada, Madrid, Valladolid
Non-European countries:
- Australia: Sidney
- Brazil: Curitiba
- Japan: Nishinomiya, Yokohama
- USA: Boulder (Colorado), Teaneck (New Jersey), Detroit (Michigan)
International curricular internships
The Erasmus+ Community Programme allows university students enrolled in Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes to access curricular internships in one of the countries participating in the Programme.
The internship period can vary from 2 to 6 months.
The Erasmus+ beneficiary will receive a Community contribution (determined from year to year) for the period spent abroad.
All notices are published on the dedicated page.
In addition, students and graduates of all courses can find opportunities for international extra-curricular, additional, postgraduate internships to enrich their educational path.
All notices are published on the dedicated page.
Scholarships for short stays abroad
Short breaks (especially summer or winter school)
In order to increase opportunities for internationalisation and to support UniBg students in their short study mobility pathways, scholarships are available for short-term mobility abroad.
There is more information on the dedicated page
Stays abroad for writing the Master’s thesis
The multi-annual “Radici” programme, which establishes scholarships for students writing their Master’s thesis abroad, for those enrolled in one of the Departments at the University of Bergamo, provides sums of 2,000 euros for short mobility stays.