Why choose an ENLIGHT university for studying abroad?

The application period for Erasmus+ study mobility for the 2025/2026 academic year runs from 1 February to 10 March, offering students the opportunity to choose, among others, an ENLIGHT member university as the study destination. 

The ENLIGHT network consists of ten classical research universities: the University of the Basque Country, the University of Bern, the University of Bordeaux, Comenius University Bratislava, the University of Galway, Ghent University, the University of Groningen, the University of Göttingen, the University of Tartu, and Uppsala University. 

One of ENLIGHT's goals is to accelerate student mobility and promote the acquisition of international learning experiences. To support this, the University of Tartu has concluded, besides subject-specific student exchange agreements, an Erasmus+ cooperation agreement, which allows students, generally regardless of their curriculum, to apply for one-semester studies at the network’s partner universities. 

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Mariete Tamm, a political science student of at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, studied as an exchange student at the University of Bern in Switzerland in the autumn of 2024. The experience gave her the opportunity to study at a university with a strong academic background and to be part of an international learning environment with English as the working language. "In addition, it is possible to establish connections with other partner universities. For example, you can take courses at the University of Fribourg, which is just a half-hour train ride from Bern," said Tamm.