Europe Institution-wide Agreements

Institution-wide Agreements

The University has a number of inter-institutional agreements with long-established European multidisciplinary universities of a high international standard. These agreements are in addition to DU department to EU department specific agreements. Before applying, students must check on the partners' websites that they offer suitable modules / courses for their Durham degree subject. To see department-to-department agreements, please click on the link below.

Click here to check departmental agreements

Durham has two sets of institution-wide agreements. To apply please use the standard European application process. Please be aware that places at these institutions are more competitive than under European Departmental Agreements. If demand for places at either the institution-wide or Coimbra SEN partners (below) exceeds the quota number of places available, places will be allocated by a University panel based on grades and the application materials provided.

General institution-wide agreements

Durham has one general European / Erasmus+ institution-wide agreements. On the host section of the European application form, please indicate "institution-wide" when choosing an institution-wide partner:

Partner Code	Partner Name	Country	Language*	Number of Places	Restrictions
S UPPSALA01	Uppsala University	Sweden	Check module lists. Many English modules available	2
A GRAZ01	Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz	Austria	German, English B2 (Search for courses taught in English)	4	Applications for subjects with restricted admission will be considered upon prior consultation with the departments concerned.
IR LIMERIC04	Mary Immaculate College	Ireland	English B2	1	Education
CH ZURICH01	University of Zurich	Switzerland	English	6	Priority to students from Biosciences and SGIA

Coimbra Group Student Exchange Network (SEN) institution-wide agreements

Durham is also member of the Coimbra Group (CG) Student Exchange Network (SEN), giving access to a further 23 European universities. Please note: the SEN is still an exchange through the European framework. On the host section of the European application form, please indicate SEN when choosing a SEN partner.

Partner Code	Partner Name	Country	Language*	Number of Places	Restrictions (courses to which students cannot apply)
A GRAZ01	Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz	Austria	See above	See above	See above
D JENA01	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena	Germany	German B2	2	Medicine, Dental Medicine
D HEIDELB01	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	German B1, English B2	1	Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Molecular Biotechnology
D KOLN01	Universität zu Köln	Germany	German, English B1	1	Medicine, Business Administration and Economics
D WURZBUR01	Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	Germany	English B1, German B2	2	Dentistry, Pharmacy and MBAs
E GRANADA01	Universidad de Granada	Spain	Spanish, English B1	1	Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
E SALAMAN02	Universidad de Salamanca	Spain	Spanish B1	2	Medicine, Dentistry, Nursery and Physiotherapy
E BARCELO01	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	Spanish or Catalan B1/ B2	1	Medicine and Health Sciences and UB affiliated centres
F POITIER01	Université de Poitiers	France	French B2, English B2	2	Medicine
HU BUDAPES01	Eötvös Lorànd University	Hungary	English B2	1	-
I PADOVA01	Università degli studi di Padova	Italy	Italian A2, English B1	2	Food and Health Dietistics, Nursing and other degree courses for health related professions
I PAVIA01	Università degli studi di Pavia	Italy	Italian B1, English B2	2	Medicine, Dentistry, Psychology
I SIENA01	Università degli studi di Siena	Italy	Italian, English B1	2	Dentistry, Medicine, Health Sciences
IRL DUBLIN01	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	English B2	1	All programmes in the Faculty of Health Sciences
LT VILNIUS01	Vilnius University	Lithuania	English B2	2	-
NL GRONING01	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	Netherlands	English (BA level: B2 / MA level:C1	1	Law, Economics & Business, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy.
P COIMBRA01	Universidade de Coimbra	Portugal	Portuguese B1, English B2	4	-
PL KRAKOW01	Jagellonian University in Krakow	Poland	Polish B2, English B2 (for studies in philology C1)	2	Medicine, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy
RO IASI02	Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi	Romania	English, French B1	Unrestricted	-
SF TURKU01	University of Turku	Finland	Finnish, English B2	2	Medicine, Business Administration
SF TURKU02	Åbo Akademi University	Finland	Swedish, English B2	4	-
CH GENEVE01	Université de Genève	Switzerland	French, English B2	2	Medicine, Primary Teaching Education, Communication

* The Languages for a Year Abroad page provides additional information about CEFR language levels.

Coimbra Group

Durham is a proud member of the Coimbra Group - an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard. The Coimbra Group is committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote study and research benefits for its members.

Find out more about the Coimbra Group

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