This page provides useful information for students enrolled in the degree programmes of the Department of Computer Science who are interested in Erasmus mobility. In the (unlikely but possible) event of discrepancies, the information contained in the official call and its attachments (see Erasmus Mobility) applies.
Presentation of the call
An informational meeting for interested students is organized each year after the call is published (in spring) and before the application deadline.
- Link to slides of the presentation
- Instruction to fill in the Learning Agreement
- Link to recording of the presentation of 13/4/2021
Mobility for study: Requirements
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Bachelor’s Degrees
First-year students can apply for an Erasmus+ scholarship only if they have earned at least 9 ECTS (excluding English).
Students in subsequent years can apply only after having earned at least 36 ECTS. -
Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Networking
Students can apply only if they have recorded at least two exams.
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Master’s Degrees in Computer Science and Master’s Degree in Data Science
There are no specific merit requirements.
Mobility for traineeship: Requirements
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Bachelor’s Degrees
At the time of the application, the student must be enrolled in the 3rd year and have a maximum of 18 credits left to complete, in addition to the project.
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Master’s Degrees
There are no specific merit requirements.
How to find a location for the traineeship
The Department does not have specific agreements with companies and institutions to carry out Erasmus+ Traineeships. Candidates must find a location to carry out the traineeship by themselves.
It can be useful:
- to contact the lecturers of your degree course to find out if they have contacts with researchers abroad;
- to consult the Erasmus Intern Traineeship portal (http://erasmusintern.org), developed by the Erasmus Student Network.
There are also various agencies that offer (for a fee) support to find and / or manage internships, for example:
Mobility for Thesis
To carry out a master’s degree thesis abroad, it is necessary to have identified, before submitting the application, the internal supervisor (a lecturer of one’s degree course), the foreign institution (research institute, university, company, …) and the researcher at the foreign institution who will supervise the thesis work. When completing the application, it is possible to indicate either Mobility for Study or Mobility for Traineeship, and a declaration by the internal supervisor must be attached.
You can apply for Mobility for Study only if you intend to do your thesis with one of the Erasmus Partners of the Department: this is recommended if you also plan to attend courses at the Partner. Instead, there are no strong constraints (see the call) on the foreign institution in the case of Mobility for Traineeship (and usually the amount of the scholarship is higher).
Converting the grade
To ensure transparent and consistent information on individual student performance, each higher education institution should provide – in addition to their national / institutional rating scale and an explanation of the scale – a statistical distribution table of the passing marks awarded in the program attended by the student (the grade distribution table), showing how the grading scale is actually used in that program.
For the conversion of grades, therefore, where available, the distribution table of the votes of your reference group is compared with that drawn up by the other institution for the parallel reference group. The position of each grade within the two tables can be compared and, based on this comparison, the individual grades are converted.
For more details see section 4.3 p. 39 and section 4.4 p. 41 of the ECTS User’s Guide
The grade distribution tables of the Degree Courses offered by the Department of Computer Science can be found in the ECTS Catalogue of the University of Pisa, in the pages describing the degrees.