Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies) is a higher education exchange programme to support and promote the development of long-term professional cooperation in the field of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Western Balkan region as well.
The aim of CEEPUS is to promote close cooperation among the universities of the member countries through a scholarship system that supports student and teacher mobility, short professional visits, participation in summer universities, research activities, and joint degree programmes. The operational framework of the programme is based on the number of scholarship months offered by the member countries. Before the start of each academic year, the CEEPUS Ministerial Conference determines the mobility quotas provided by each country for the purposes mentioned above. Since each country provides financial support to incoming scholarship holders, the amount of the scholarship varies from country to country. The current grant amounts can be found on the Central CEEPUS Office website (www.ceepus.info) by clicking on the respective country flags.
Current member countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, North Macedonia, Croatia, Kosovo, Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Each member country has a National CEEPUS Office (NCO) responsible for the national coordination of the programme. In Hungary, this role is fulfilled by the Tempus Public Foundation. The website of the Hungarian CEEPUS Office is https://ceepus.hu/.
The CEEPUS network serves as the organizational framework through which student and teacher mobility primarily takes place, although mobility outside the networks, known as freemover mobility, is also possible.