Faculty of Science extends its foreign relations with Asia with a new exchange programme
The so-called International Credit Mobility – part of the Erasmus+ programme since 2015 aims to promote exchange stays of students and academics in countries outside Europe.
The Faculty of Science UHK joined the programme in 2017. A project with our long-standing partner - the Korean Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) in Tedjon, South Korea was the first to expand the portfolio of our foreign contracts. In 2018/2019 academic year we initiated mutual long-term exchanges of students and academics with this workplace. In the winter semester, a doctoral student from Korea completed a three-month study stay at FoS UHK, during which she had also the opportunity to work in the laboratory, while several academics from FoS visited KRICT. “Thanks to credit mobilities bilateral cooperation, student exchanges and the know-how of both workplaces are being extended. Doc. Kamil Musílek who participated in the exchange as one of the first together with his colleagues from the Department of Chemistry describes the contribution: ,,In our case, a stay in Korea has helped develop our mutual research and its results have been published, for example, in the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society”. Exchanges are also taking place in the summer semester of 2019 when one student from the Faculty of Science went to KRICT for three months and FoS is expecting the arrival of a Korean academic from the partner institution.
Exchange stays in Korea are just the beginning for the Faculty of Science in the area of the International Credit Mobility. Similarly, in 2018, the Faculty managed to sign a contract with the Kochi University of Technology, a partner in Japan, and it plans to cooperate with institutions in China, Brazil and Russia.
