DUO-Korea Fellowship Program was established in 2001 with the aim of promoting exchanges of people between Korea and European countries (the 30 European member countries only: including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.) on a balanced and permanent basis. In this respect, DUO-Korea requires that a PAIR (two persons) of students be exchanged in the framework of a cooperative project. Definitions of students are as below:
lStudents: undergraduate and graduate students who are currently enrolled in universities
Eligibility Criteria
Due to this unique nature of this program, in order to be eligible, the following are required:
Your exchange project fulfills all four requirements below:
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An educational institution in Korea (home institution) and an educational institution in Europe (host institution) have established a academic cooperative agreement; and
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The Korean home institution has selected a Korean national student enrolled at the home institution to send to the European host institution, and such selection has been **accepted**by the European host institution; and
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The same European host institution has selected an EU citizen student enrolled at the host institution to send to the Korean home institution, and such selection has been accepted by the same Korean home institution.
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If the Korean student has already started the exchange or the European student has already stayed in Korea before the application period for DUO-Korea 2015, are not acceptable.
Offered Benefits
For students: 1 semester (or four months, whichever comes earlier) for an amount of 8,000 euros for both students in a pair. Maximum duration for application is 1 semester.
