Intensive hybrid programmes (BIPs) - short-term mobility CIVIS

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• Students and Doctoral students regularly registered at UNIL

Geographic areas covered:

The 11 European universities that are members of the CIVIS Alliance:

• Aix-Marseille Université
• National Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Universitatea din Bucuresti 
• Université libre de Bruxelles 
• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 
• Sapienza Università di Roma 
• Stockholms Universitet 
• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 
• University of Glasgow 
• Paris Lodron University of Salzburg 

1. Students interested in a BIP should contact their UNIL faculty mobility coordinator to check that the project is feasible according to their study plan. A learning agreement must be signed to determine how the course will be recognised.
2. The student applies online via the CIVIS BIP registration platform on the Alliance website. Student selection is a two-stage process:
   1. on the CIVIS side, by the BIP organising team on the basis of the candidates' motivation and background.
   2. on the UNIL Social Affairs and Student Mobility (SASME) side, to check eligibility for the mobility grant. The results are normally sent no later than one month after the deadline for submitting applications to the BIPs.
3. If selected, a scholarship contract must be signed between the student and UNIL Social Affairs and Student Mobility (bipcivis@unil.ch). The scholarship will be paid before the start of the on-site activity. The grant is dependent on the learning agreement.
4. The student can now take part in the online programme and the 5-day trip to the physical mobility host university alongside teachers and students from across the Alliance. The length and format of the online learning sessions and the assessment of the knowledge acquired depend on each CIVIS BIP
5. Upon successful completion of the course, a transcript of record is issued by the BIP coordinating institution. Credits (3 to 6 ECTS depending on the BIP) can be recognised as agreed in the learning agreement.

Depending on the theme of the BIP followed and the structure of the training course followed at UNIL, the so-called BIP credits will be counted in the following way (according to what has been agreed with the mobility coordinator in the learning agreement) :

1. BIP credits can be acquired as part of the optional courses of certain degree courses, free choice courses, courses outside the faculty, or fieldwork.
2. The so-called BIP credits may constitute so-called supplementary credits, not counted towards the degree (outside the plan, outside the curriculum) which may nonetheless appear on the diploma supplement as supplementary credits.
3. Validate a BIP CIVIS as a mobility equivalence.

For physical mobility during the BIP, the student is financially supported in the following ways (travel, meals and accommodation):

• A lump sum of CHF 80 per day of the programme in advance (max 5 days);
• A lump sum of CHF 80.- for one day's outward travel and CHF 80.- for one day's return travel;
• A lump-sum contribution to the journey according to Movetia's kilometre scale below:

• If a sustainable mode of transport (bus or train) is chosen, the student can count up to two days of outward travel and two days of return travel if justified, and receive an additional lump sum of CHF 100.00 on presentation of supporting travel documents.