International Contacts

The University of Greifswald's Department of Slavonic Studies is involved in numerous international exchange programmes (Erasmus) and also maintains bilateral contacts e.g. with universities in Russia (St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad), Poland (Szczecin, Poznan), the Czech Republic (Brno), and Ukraine (Kiev).

Foreign and German students have the opportunity to acquire credits that are compatible throughout Europe in accordance with the European Transfer Credit System (ETCS), which is intended to increase the mobility of students throughout Europe.

Furthermore, the aforementioned agreements also lead to an exchange of lecturers. The international lecturer exchange gives students from Greifswald the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue with lecturers from the countries of the languages and cultures they are studying, while lecturers from the Department of Slavonic Studies hold guest lectures abroad (including in St. Petersburg, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Kaliningrad, Olomouc, Brno and Poznań) as part of the Socrates and partnership agreements, thereby expanding their teaching and cultural expertise.

Visiting academics are also involved in teaching e.g. in block seminars. Teaching is regularly enriched by lectures held by academics, readings by authors and international conferences organised in cooperation with the universities of St. Petersburg, Poznań, Opole, Szczecin, Wrocław, Olomouc, Kiev and Lviv. The German-Polish Literature Forum, founded with the Instytut Filologii Polskiej at the University of Szczecin, should be mentioned here, while the Ukrainicum, which has been organised by Ukrainian Studies every year since 1996, is a well-known event throughout Germany, offering a wide range of language courses as well as academic and cultural events for students, interested parties and academics from all German-speaking regions.