International Opportunities

Within the ERASMUS+ program, it is possible to study at a foreign university for a semester or two where our Department has a bilateral contract (see below). By studying at an approved foreign university you can receive an ERASMUS+ scholarship.

Each student has the possibility to use 12 months for staying abroad during their master studies (including internships supported by ERASMUS+).

Erasmus+ Agreements (last updated 11/12/2025)

University	Faculty/Department	City	Country	Number of students Study cycle
Universität Wien Agreement should be valid since February 2026	Department of Development Studies	Vienna	Austria	1 x 10 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
University of Antwerp Agreement should be valid since February 2026	Institute of Development Policy and Management Advanced master in Globalization and Development Advanced master in Governance and Development Advanced master in Development Evaluation and Management	Antwerp	Belgium	2 x 12 months 2^nd cycle
Université Libre de Bruxelles	Faculté des Sciences sociales et politiques MA en Sciences de la population et du développement	Brusel	Belgium	1 x 5 months 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
University of Jyväskylä	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences	Jyväskylä	Finland	2 x 5 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Université d’Auvergne	Ecole d´économie Licence Droit, Economie, Gestion	Clermont-Ferrand	France	5 x 10 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Université Grenoble Alpes	Faculté d´économie de Grenoble Master Economie, énergie, développement durable Master Etudes internationales et européennes Master Sciences du Territoire	Grenoble	France	1 x 10 months 1^stand 2^nd cycle
University of the Aegean	Department of Geography Department of Sociology	Mytilini, Lesbos	Greece	3 x 6 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Eötvös Loránd University	Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences	Budapest	Hungary	2 x 5 months 1^stand 2^nd cycle
University of Akureyri	Faculty of Social Sciences	Akureyri	Iceland	2 x 5 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
University of Pavia	Department of Economics and Management	Pavia	Italy	2 x 6 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
University of Turin	Department of Economics and Statistics Department of Cultures, Politics and Society	Turin	Italy	4 x 9 months 1^stand 2^nd cycle
Utrecht University	Faculty of Geosciences	Utrecht	Netherlands	1 x 10 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Wageningen University		Wageningen	Netherlands	2 x 10 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences	Trondheim	Norway	4 x 10 months 2^nd cycle
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Graduate School for Social Research	MA in Society and Politics MA in Economy and Society	Warsaw	Poland	2 x 5 months 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Jagellonian University in Kraków	Faculty of International and Political Studies	Krakow	Poland	2 x 5 months 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Facultad de Geografía e Historía	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain	2 x 5 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Universidad de Alicante	ONLY Máster universitario en cooperacion al desarrollo	Alicante	Spain	2 x 5 months 2^nd cycle
Universidad de Málaga	Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales	Málaga	Spain	2 x 10 months 1^stand 2^nd cycle
Universitat Rovira i Virgili	Courses	Tarragona	Spain	4 x 6 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Malmö University	Department of Global Political Studies Peace and Conflict Studies International Migration and Ethnic Relations	Malmö	Sweden	2 x 5 months 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle
Haci Bektas Veli Nevsehir University		Nevşehir	Turkey	2 x 5 months 1^stand 2^nd cycle
University of Manchester	School of Environment, Education and Development	Manchester	United Kingdom	3 x 10 months 1^st cycle – preferably IELTS certificate of 6.5 or higher and other conditions required

Application process

Applications for the Erasmus program should be submitted via mobility.upol.cz. The selection procedure for the academic year 2026/2027 will take place in February/early March 2026.

As a student of the Faculty, you can also apply for an Erasmus program, which bilateral agreement was not signed by our department. However, it is common for departments to prefer their students during the selection process.

ERASMUS+ Scholarship

ERASMUS+ program promotes internships for students in host institutions in EU. Students can gain worthy work experience in an international environment and improve their key skills. Funding is available for internships or voluntary internships between three to six months. Each student has the possibility to use 12 months for staying abroad during his master studies. It is possible to use INTLAG.upol application to search for an internship. For more details please contact Mr. Jiří Chovaneček.

Vavroušek Scholarship

“I went purposefully where the problems of environment and humanity are connected, especially in the social area. This is not a question of natural science; natural science provides basic information on how nature works, while technology enables technical solutions; but the key to it all is in social sciences, starting from philosophy through psychology, sociology. It is simply essential to interconnect social, technical, and natural sciences as it makes people think in context.”

Josef Vavroušek

The Vavroušek Scholarship is an initiative of the Department of Development and Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc. It is intended for bachelor’s and master’s students of the Department of Development and Environmental Studies. Its goal is to support study stays, internships, research projects, and other student activities in the field of development cooperation and sustainable development. Many students also use these activities to prepare and complete their bachelor’s (BP) or master’s theses (DP).

The scholarship is conditional upon providing proof of co-financing for other expenses and signing a „Memorandum of Understanding.“ Detailed information about the application and selection process can be found in the attached document. Students can also download the application form and a final report form.

Students supported since May 2022

See following link and scroll down to tables with „Podpořené projekty“.

Students supported in 2021/2022

November 2021 & May 2022
Lenka Drahá	8 weeks internship in Tanzania	CZK 11,500

Kristína Cabalová

4 weeks internship in Eastern Europe

CZK 15,000

Students supported in 2020/2021

November 2020 & May 2021
Veronika Diatková	8 weeks internship in Tanzania	CZK 22,000	cancelled
Vojtěch Jochim	5 weeks internship in Bosnia	CZK 13,000	report & photos
Aneta Pavloková	10 weeks internship in Tanzania	CZK 28,000	report & photos
Lucie Podhorná	12 weeks internship in Ghana	CZK 22,000	report & photos
K. Hlavičková	8 weeks internship in Uganda	CZK 10,000	postponed

Students supported in 2019/2020

November 2019
Vojtěch Jochim	6 weeks internship in Tanzania	CZK 15,000	report & photos
Adéla Hemelíková	16 weeks internship in Indonesia	CZK 15,000	report & photos
K. Formánková	16 weeks internship in Bhutan	CZK 12,500	report & photos
Zuzana Daubnerová	16 weeks internship in Bhutan	CZK 12,500
M. Holmanová	8 weeks internship in Colombia	CZK 15,000	report & photos

Students supported in 2018/2019

November 2018
Barbora Knížková	8 weeks internship in Cambodia	CZK 19,800	report & photos

Students supported in 2017/2018

November 2017 & May 2018
Eliška Juřičková	12 weeks internship in Uganda	CZK 15,000	report & photos
Nikola Harsová	12 weeks internship in Vietnam	CZK 12,000	report & photos
K. Mejsnarová	8 weeks internship in East Africa	CZK 10,000	report & photos
Michaela Žajglová	7 weeks internship in Indonesia	CZK 5,000	report & photos
Eliška Juřičková	8 weeks internship in Uganda	CZK 15,000	canceled

Experience of Students

Kamila Šimková (Aiesec Yaoundé, Cameroon)

“In Cameroon I worked as a volunteer on educational projects in rural areas of the country. Thanks to the internship, I could have better understood the reality of life in this beautiful but poor country. This wasn´t my first internship in Cameroon but I don´t regret the second visit at all. Thanks to my previous experience I worked as one of managers in an organization in English language education. As a great benefit, I consider the opportunity to learn teamwork cooperation in multicultural environment in which I stayed for the entire time. Another significant benefit was my improvement of communication skills in English and French.”

Veronika Semelková (Professional Aliance for Development, Ethiopia)

“In my research stay in Ethiopia, I cooperated with the local non-profit organization PADet. My aim was to conduct quantitative analysis of one of the communitarian projects of the organization. Thanks to this field experience, I have had the opportunity to become a researcher in the process related to data collecting and evaluating. I have confronted closely to the reality of life in a developing country with cultural and language differences which was a challenge. At the same time, I realised that Ethiopia is a country I would like to come back to for further research.”

External Funding

A number of external scholarships are available to students:

Field Trips

During the studies at the Department of Development Studies, students may enroll in the elective subject Field Trip to Development Institutions (Brussels, Strasbourg, Vienna, Bratislava, Geneva etc.). The aim of the field trip is to provide deeper knowledge about development-related issues which is partly mediated by discussions with local experts who also provide students with information about internships or future job prospects. Excursions are designed for 5-10 days.

Another elective subject Field trip to Moldova aims at the enhancement of students’ skills helping to increase their employability in the development job market. The focus is paid to learning about concrete projects implemented in Moldova, a priority country of the Czech Development Cooperation. The accumulated knowledge is shared with other secondary school and university students through the additional activities under the guidance of professional journalist. The aim of the subject is to provide students with the practical side of development cooperation, its results and links to wider development strategies as well as its pitfalls and obstacles.

Aside from international field trips, the Department of Development Studies additionally offers field trips to Czech institutions dealing with international affairs. For more information about field trips, please contact their organiser Ms. Simona Šafaříková.