{"id":450,"date":"2019-07-11T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asem-education.org\/?p=450"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:25:49","slug":"86-asem-duo-india-fellowship-program-2020-students-call-for-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asem-education.org\/news\/86-asem-duo-india-fellowship-program-2020-students-call-for-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEM-DUO India Fellowship Program 2020 (Students) call for applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUO-India Fellowship Programme<\/strong>\u00a0has been recently established with the aim of promoting exchange of people between India and European countries on\u00a0a balanced and permanent\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>basis. DUO-India aims to fund every year, 100 student-pairs for exchanges for one semester, starting from 2020 onwards aiming to provide mobility between Indian and European institutes. In this respect, DUO-India requires that a\u00a0PAIR (two persons)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of students be exchanged, and they should be from any of the collaborating institute (both Indian and European) under SPARC projects.<\/p>\n

For this program, only such institutes which are part of the Joint Research Projects under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC<\/strong>) are eligible to participate. The list of eligible institutes (both Indian & European) can be seen in\u00a0https:\/\/sparc.iitkgp.ac.in\/.<\/a>\u00a0As of now, 14 European countries namely\u00a0Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0UK<\/strong>\u00a0are part of SPARC programme.<\/p>\n

Eligibility<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Due to the unique nature of this programme, in order to be eligible, the following are required:<\/p>\n

Eligible are students, whether they are\u00a0undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctorate students who are currently enrolled<\/strong>\u00a0in institutes (leave of absence is allowed).\u00a0All applicants shall maintain their \u201cenrollment status\u201d at the time of application until the time they are engaged in exchanges.<\/p>\n

Requirements<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  1. The Indian institute (Home institute) will\u00a0select\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>an\u00a0Indian national<\/em>\u00a0student enrolled at the Home institute to send to the European institute (Host institute), and such selection has been\u00a0accepted<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by the Host institute;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. The\u00a0same\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Host institute will select an\u00a0EU citizen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0student enrolled at the Host institute to be sent to the Home institute, and such selection has been accepted by the Home institute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. If any of the students are in exchange programmes in the fall of 2019, then they are disqualified.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        If any application falls under the following 3 cases, the application is disqualified and will not be considered for selection.<\/strong>\u00a0If such case is found after the selection, the Secretariat reserves the right to cancel the fellowship (BOTH Indian\/European students) and request the return of the fellowship in full. Therefore, the contact persons of the institutes should carefully confirm that the applications do not fall under the following 3 cases.<\/p>\n

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        1. Case 1.<\/strong>\u00a0In case of the Transfer of Credits, the credits for transfer are less than 10 credits (20 ECTS): language and sports courses are NOT to be counted. The Indian institute (Home institute) will\u00a0select\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>an\u00a0Indian national<\/em>\u00a0student enrolled at the Home institute to send to the European institute (Host institute), and such selection has been\u00a0accepted<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by the Host institute;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Case 2.<\/strong>\u00a0GPA\/ECTS written on the application are different from those of the transcriptThe\u00a0same\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Host institute will select an\u00a0EU citizen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0student enrolled at the Host institute to be sent to the Home institute, and such selection has been accepted by the Home institute;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            1. Case 3.<\/strong>\u00a0During the period for the fall semester 2019, the Indian student does not stay in India (leave of absence is allowed) or the European student does not stay in Europe (leave of absence is allowed). If\u00a0any of the students are in exchange programmes in the fall of 2019, then they are disqualified.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Duration and Fellowship<\/strong>
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              DUO-India 2020 is for exchange of students for spring semester (between Jan\/Feb and May\/June, 2020) and fall semester (between Aug\/Sep an\u00a0d Nov\/Dec, 2020). The selection of DUO-India Fellows would be made ONLY once a year. In this respect, those who are planning to exchange in 2020 shall apply for DUO-India 2020 within the timelines specified below.<\/p>\n

              Applications will be accepted\u00a0from\u00a0<\/strong>July 15 to September 30, 2019\u00a0<\/strong>local Indian time. Applications submitted\u00a0after September 30, 2019 will not be accepted<\/strong>.<\/p>\n