From 2021 TalTech students will be able to take courses as a visiting student, with universities participating in the EuroTeQ project.
Tallinn University of Technology is participating in the EuroTeQ Engineering University project together with some of the best European technical universities. The collaboration will also provide an opportunity to establish collaborative projects with international enterprises such as BMW, Siemens, Ubisoft, etc. Read more about EuroTeQ at taltech.ee/en/euroteq.
TalTech students can take various courses offered by TalTech’s partner universities. The partner universities are:
- Technical University of Munich – TUM (Germany)
- Technical University of Eindhoven – TU/e (The Netherlands)
- Technical University of Denmark – DTU (Denmark)
- École Polytechnique – L´X (France)
- Czech Technical University in Prague – CTU (Czech Reupublic)
See the courses offered here: www.euroteq.eu/courses, for EuroTeQ micro-credentials click here: www.euroteq.eu/microcredentials
The selection includes courses in a variety of fields; all courses are taught online and in English.
The enrollment for Spring semester 2023 is open!
Submit your application by 24th of November 2022.
How to take courses under the EuroTeQ project
- Choose suitable courses and/or micro-credentials from the EuroTeQ website.
Students can choose up to 3 courses, which can be from different universities (including micro-credentials). - Fill out the application for becoming a visiting student in the OIS (Documents - Applications - Transfer to Visiting Student Place), indicating the courses you want to take from the foreign university. On the exchange programme line in the application, write ‘EuroTeQ’.
- Download the completed application from OIS, sign it (Üliõpilase allkiri) and send it to your programme manager for approval. If you want to take courses from more than one foreign university at the same time, you must first print out a completed application for one university and then manually add the other university and selected courses before submitting the application to the programme manager.
- After the programme manager has sent you back a digitally signed application, forward it to kerli.roosimaa@taltech.ee by the deadline indicated above. The information provided in the application will be shared with the foreign university and, if necessary, the foreign university will contact you.
- After the foreign university has approved your application, you will be sent more detailed information on how to declare the courses taken at the foreign university, etc.
- Once you have completed your courses, you will need to prepare an APEL application in OIS to have the courses entered in your study record. Credits are awarded for completed courses in accordance with TalTech’s terms and procedures for recognising previous studies and professional experience. Read more at taltech.ee/en/vota.
For more information, please contact kerli.roosimaa@taltech.ee.
The EuroTeQ Engineering University project is co-financed by the EU’s Erasmus+ programme.
There is an agreement between six Estonian universities (Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University, University of Tartu, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonian Academy of Arts) which determines that students can study as a visiting student in another university, where the level of study is mutually acceptable.
How to become a visiting student
TalTech student, who wishes to study as a visiting student in one of the above listed universities, must fill in the needed application in OIS. By the application there can be found the Visiting Student Application, where the student should write the subjects of the host university, what the student wishes to take to fulfill the curriculum. Completed Visiting Student Application must be presented to the Dean’s office to consult and sign the application.
The visiting student registrates to subjects in the host university and gets a signature to the Visiting Student Application. Studying as a visiting student in the above mentioned five host university is free of charge.
The Dean’s Office in the faculty of the host university provides the visiting student with Transcript of Records.
Recognition of the subjects
The recognition of the subjects done as visiting student and transferring the credits to Tallinn Univeristy of Technology is done through the Accreditation of Prior and Experiential Learning (APEL) system. In order to use it, the student has to fill in an application in OIS and present the Transcript of Records provided by the host university to the student’s Dean’s office. After accepting the application the grades will be visible in TalTech OIS.
Fee paying students will pay for the credits done as a visiting student according to TalTech price list.