Incoming Exchange Students

Before you can apply for an exchange semester to Idar-Oberstein, you need to get nominated by your home-institution.

Ask the responsible person (teacher, exchange officer, etc) to send an email to studyservice-io(at)hochschule-trier.de with the following 4 informations:

1. your name,
2. your email address,
3. your course of study and the year/semester you are currently in,
4. in which semester would you like to be an exchange student:
   in winter or in summer?

After being nominated you will be contacted by us with an individual upload address on our university file-server to upload your application to. (please do NOT send any documents per email or post!)

We need the following documents:

1. your recent and complete CV, (name it: YourName_CV.pdf)
2. your portfolio, (name it: YourName_Portfolio.pdf)
3. a transcript of records, (name it: YourName_TOR.pdf)
4. a letter of motivation on your choice of the University in Idar-Oberstein for your exchange semester on max. 1 DinA4. (name it: YourName_Motivation.pdf) Since you are applying for an „exchange", it is helpful to understand this term in its usual sense of “two-way interaction”.  So, an exchange means that we give something to one another – moments, experiences, and insights. In your letter of motivation, you should describe clearly what you are hoping to explore, discover, and gain from your time in Idar. please do not forget to describe what the gemstones and jewellery campus/our community will receive in return: What will your contribution be and what will our Campus gain from your presence?
5. Erasmus+ Application_Form (download as WORD or PDF) (name it: YourName_Application.pdf)
6. Erasmus+ Learning_Agreement (download as WORD or PDF) (name it: YourName_LearningAgreement.pdf)
7. a readable (!) copy/photo/scan of your passport or ID (name it: YourName_ID.pdf)

PLEASE NOTE: All 7 documents need to be formated as PDF.
Applications over 10 MB will be rejected so please compress your files (for instance with https://pdfcompressor.com, here you can also transfer JPG to PDF). 

Deadlines of application:

• 1st of December for the following summer semester (1st Mar. - 31st Aug.)
• 1st of June for the following winter semester (1st Sep. - 28th Feb.)

Within 2 weeks after the application deadline, you will receive the result of the assessment of your application. If you get "Notice of Acceptance" as exchange student, please continue with:

If you are not speaking German or an English native speaker, we will check your language capacities in an online interview for which we will send you a date and a zoom-link.

Within 1 week after the interview, you will receive the result of your application.
If you get a "Notice of Acceptance", please continue with:

After receiving Notice of Acceptance from our department, you need to register as a student. Your Notice of Acceptance will hold all information how to do this.