Academic staff mobility

The SEMP programme (former Erasmus) offers USI academic staff the possibility of teaching abroad for a short period of time, at an institution with which the Università della Svizzera italiana has signed a Staff Teaching Assignment (STA) agreement.

The standard mobility period is one week. It involves a minimum of lecturing load of 8 hours, and may extend up to 6 weeks.

Academic staff wishing to carry out a teaching period at one of the partner universities must fully integrate into the partner university's department or faculty, which means:

• the mobility purpose must be based on the agreement between USI and the partner university (bilateral agreement);
• the guest academic staff must agree in advance with the partner university the teaching curriculum that must be fulfilled.

Procedure

The application and the management of the Teaching Staff Mobility is carried out in Mobility Online. Interested teaching staff is invited to contact the International Relations Service well ahead of time (at least two months before the planned mobility), to verify whether an agreement exists with the host or sending university (in the case of incoming lecturers) and to receive the registration form link: [email protected].

Within the budget allocated to USI by the National Agency Movetia, teaching staff may claim travel costs and costs for the teaching material. Additional information are available on this page.

Grants:

Subject to the limits of the funds allocated to USI by the National Agency Movetia, the eligible costs for lecturers include travel, meals, and accommodation expenses. Grant details can be found on this page.

Grants are limited and are usually awarded in the order in which (complete) applications are received.