Opportunities for students

Every year, new Erasmus+ agreements are signed between the 9 FORTHEM partners, making it easy for students to construct a mobility pathway as part of an Erasmus exchange.

This means you can go abroad several times to one of our 8 FORTHEM partner universities, under simplified procedures: easier mobility for all levels of study.

To apply for this mobility scheme, follow the procedure described on the Studies abroad page.

Short-term mobility (all-expenses-paid study stays at partner universities)

• Collective: for a few days, you take part in a themed program with students from 8 other countries, often open to students from all disciplines (migration, interculturality, Europe…).
• Individual: you can spend up to 5 days at a FORTHEM partner university for an individual project (research for your dissertation, work on a joint project with other Alliance students, etc.).

FORTHEM Campus

• Spend a semester studying with a group of students from the nine universities, taking thematic courses based on one of the host university’s areas of expertise. These courses, inspired by a particular scientific field, are not reserved exclusively for students in the discipline in question, but are open to a wider student audience.

Summer universities

• Themed stays of several weeks organized at partner universities during the summer vacations.

• Facilities to promote language learning in the countries of the FORTHEM partner universities.
• Creation of language tandems between native students from our partner universities.
• Development of language mediation tools so that everyone can express themselves in their own language and converse in real time.
• Setting up a wide range of courses in English at each university to enable you to take part in an exchange program without necessarily knowing the local language.
• Creation of a European catalog of tutored projects.
• Creation of the FORTHEM Digital Academy, a virtual European campus that lets you take courses abroad without leaving Burgundy.

• You can apply for internships offered by our Alliance in conjunction with our partners. These internships are offered in the regions of our 9 FORTHEM universities and can take place in private companies, associations, laboratories, public bodies, etc. Specific internships in schools are also offered to students training to become teachers.
• Set up a civic engagement project, financially supported by the Alliance – the program of your project must be linked to the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, such as ecology, inequality, poverty, etc.
• You can receive support for your student association to develop a project with other associations from FORTHEM partner universities.
• You can become a FORTHEM ambassador and promote the Alliance to other students at the Université Bourgogne Europe.
• We will also be introducing a common student card for all Alliance students: the European Student Card.

The FORTHEM Labs are groups of experts working on seven research themes that address the challenges of today’s society.

• Food science
• Experiencing Europe
• Diversity and migration
• Multilingualism in school and higher education
• Digital transformation
• Climate and resources
• Resilience, life quality and demographic change
• Art and aesthetics in contemporary societies
• Cultural heritage

As a student, you can join these working groups in the form of:

• an internship as part of your course program;
• research work linked to your studies and earning ECTS credits;
• participation in events and short projects organized around Labs themes.