Education
Internationalisation in educational activities

We strengthen international cooperation with an active role in international associations and intensive cooperation with strategic partners. We will strive to increase joint activities with foreign partners and the number of international students enrolled full-time.

Katja Cerar
Head of Office for Internationalization

To become a visible leading university in the wider region, the University of Ljubljana enhances its international cooperation by increasing the number of research projects and the related quantity of obtained funds, the number of international students and the number of foreign employees. 

The University of Ljubljana has 81 foreign nationals employed full-time, 30 of whom are teachers. Furthermore, 519 foreign professors and associates participated in the study process. 

In 2016, most teacher and student exchanges were made in the ERASMUS+ programme with European countries. We successfully continued the exchange programme within the scope of ERASMUS+, also with institutions outside Europe. Under such exchange programmes, 428 University teachers and associates went abroad. Outgoing exchange students totalled 1,518 and 2,049 students came from abroad. The number of students doing practical training abroad also increased. In 2016, there were 587 such students (29 percent more than in 2015). 

We continued to strengthen cooperation with partner universities, strategic partners, other institutions and within various networks in which the University of Ljubljana operates. In 2016, we entered into strategic partnerships with three European universities (University of Rijeka, University of Graz and Eötvös Loránd University) and two Chinese universities (Nanjing University and Sichuan University from Chengdu). 

Several measures have been taken to improve the provision of information to foreign students, i.e. we renewed the website and publications for international students, collected and published information on University of Ljubljana summer schools and carried out 48 summer school programmes. We attended the EAIE conference in Liverpool, which is focused primarily on the intensive flow of interests and information, and established potential partnerships among higher education institutions. In the frame of Study in Slovenia, the University of Ljubljana presented itself at higher education fairs in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. 

The University of Ljubljana will continue to strengthen international cooperation in education, employee and student exchange and other activities with a visible role in international associations and intensive cooperation with strategic partners. We will strive to increase the scope of mobility of all University stakeholders.

In addition to exchanges in CEEPUS, NFM and Erasmus Mundus programmes, most student and teacher exchanges in 2016 were made in the ERASMUS+ programme with countries in Europe and institutions outside Europe.

Katja Cerjak
Assistant Secretary General at the University Office for International Relations

NUMBER OF ENROLLED FOREIGN STUDENTS

Number of enrolled foreign students with respect to all students enrolled in 2016

STUDENT EXCHANGE

The number of all students on exchange in all three cycles by academic years