General Guidelines
EU students may travel within the EU using their national ID card or passport. If you are a non-EU student, you will need a passport for visa purposes. If you don't yet have a passport, then apply for one as soon as possible. Please ensure that the passport is valid for the duration of the programme (for examle, students enrolling in the first year of the programme 2012-14 will require a passport that expires after September 2014). It is also worth specifying that applicants must use the same passport for the application form and for visa purposes.
If you have been admitted to QEM1, the first year of the two-year Erasmus Mundus Master QEM programme
Then you will be welcomed to the programme in early September at the Maison des Sciences Economiques in Paris, even if you are not studying in Paris for the first semester, to complete registration and become acquainted with your colleagues. For more information, see the Welcome Week. Unless you are scheduled to study in Paris during the first semester, you must obtain a short-term visa so that you may attend the welcome week in Paris before traveling to Germany or Spain at the end of the week.
If you are scheduled to study in Paris for the first semester: You will require a long-term student visa. For more information, see the section on French Student Visas. You will also require a long-term student visa for your second semester in Germany or Spain but you can apply from France, rather than your home country, after getting your French residence permit.
If you are scheduled to study in Bielefeld for the first semester: You will require a long-term student visa. For more information, see the section on German Student Visas. You will also require a long-term student visa for your second semester in France or Spain but you can apply from Germany, rather than your home country, after getting your German residence permit.
If you are scheduled to study in Barcelona for the first semester: You will require a long-term student visa. For more information, see the section on Spanish Student Visas. You will also require a long-term student visa for your second semester in France or Germany but you can apply from Spain, rather than your home country, after getting your Spanish residence permit.
If you have been admitted directly to QEM2, the second year of the two-year Erasmus Mundus Master QEM programme i.e. the one-year QEM Accelerated Track
Then you will be welcomed to the programme in early at the Maison des Sciences Economiques in Paris. Unless you are and EU citizen or already hold a valid residence permit from a country in the Schengen Area, you must obtain a short-term visa for the Summer Semester in Paris (QEM1). For more information, see the section on French Student Visas.
You will then need to obtain a long-term student visa for whichever country you are scheduled to spend your second year in.
- For more information, see the section on German Student Visas
- For more information, see the section on Spanish Student Visas
- For more information, see the section on Italian Student Visas
Note: The Schengen Space
Foreign citizens with valid residency permits in a Schengen country may travel freely in the Schengen space for up to 3 months as long as they hold valid recognised passports and valid residency status. At the moment there are 15 member countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.