Information – Erasmus+ Student Exchange @ LWAC

Length

Student mobility is usually for 1 semester, either fall semester or spring semester; in some cases, mobility lasts for a whole year, depending on the hosting institution as well as the home institution in terms of the curriculum.

Basic information

For information regarding mobility opportunities, please contact your Erasmus+ Office at your academic institution.

LWAC students, please contact the Heads of International Study Program: Dr. Shiri Rosenberg, at [email protected] (for Levinsky & Eilat campuses), or Prof. Yael Netz, at [email protected] (for Wingate campus).

Criteria for Mobility

Several criteria are involved in choosing students for mobility, such as:

• Department of training matches the hosting mobility’s interests and opportunities for the incoming student;
• Accreditation is possible for the curriculum of the incoming students via their home institution;
• Potential benefit for LWAC and for the matching institution – willingness of the students to share their experiences with the home institution;
• Excellent grades (at least an average of 80; preferably higher);
• Very good English skills (oral, reading, writing);
• Recommendations from faculty;
• Students are good representatives of the home institution and their country.

Suitable candidate will be notified following a selection process in their home institution.

STEP 1: Preparing Your Study Plan

Before embarking on the application process, you will need to meet with the International Exchange Coordinator at your local academic institution, to select courses that you will be taking at LWAC as part of your exchange program. Click here to review the courses that are conducted in English.

For LWAC students, this will be conducted together with the Heads of International Study Program, according to the campus where you study. Your chosen study plan must be approved by the International Exchange Coordinators according to approval of the head of your academic department.

STEP 2: Application Procedure

Your local coordinator will contact you after receiving application forms from the campus coordinator. After filling out these forms in full, please return them to your local coordinator, together with ALL of the following documents:

1. Request for accommodation.
2. Transcript of your academic courses and grades, in English.
3. Copy of your passport (which must be valid for at least 3 months after the end of your planned stay at LWAC).
4. Clear passport-sized photograph.
5. Certificate of good health.

The International Exchange Coordinator at your local academic institution will submit your application forms and documents to LWAC on your behalf.

Submission Deadlines

All forms must be submitted by 2 weeks before the beginning of either the fall of spring semester. For the 2024-5 academic year, the date is March 1, 2025, for the spring semester.

 Step 3: Acceptance

Upon receiving your application forms and documents from your local academic institution, a letter of confirmation will be sent to you and to your local International Exchange Coordinator.

Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent to you both within two weeks of receipt of all application documents.

For further information, please contact

Danya Kafrin,

Administrative Coordinator of International Initiatives

Levinsky-Wingate Academic College

Email: [email protected]