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At the Lens UIT, every student can go and
realize their studies abroad, no matter their pathway.
Discover the internships or semesters possibilities abroad
according to departments proposed by the Lens UIT,
as well as advices to prepare this internship/semester.
Record of student participating that experience
is also share to you.
TC
Access to the formation :
The DUT marketing methods is open for every bachelor degree owner on file.
Terminal studies level : Bac +2
Opportunities with this DUT :
The owner of this DUT is a polyvalent commercial employee able to sell, buy, distribute and manage stocks.
He exerts its functions in the mass retail, in the industry, in banks or even in an insurance or in transports. In early career, he usually occupied the job of commercial, representative, client executive or department manager. After a first experience, he could become a middle manager, enter a commercial department or oversees sales staff.
Some of this DUT orientations can be done in others european countries : in Germany for the tourism management, in Spain for the commercial business and economic relationship development.
At the end of this DUT, you can make the coice of a direct professional insertion or you can choose between various continued studies :
Continued studies :
Even if the DUT prepares for a direct professional insertion, 87% of the graduated continue their studies according to the "Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de l'enseignement supérieur" survey in 2014.
For exemple:
- Professional license
- License and Masters
- Business school
IT
Access to the formation :
To access the Computing DUT, you have to own a baccalaureate "S","ES","STMG","STI2D" or an equivalent
You also have to be voluntary and motivated, curious about new technologies.
Some strong scientist bases are recommended. No prior level in computing is asked.
The admission is done on file and eventually an interview.
Terminal studies level : Bac +2
Training in company duration : 10 weeks
Opportunities with this DUT :
The Computing DUT forms engineering assistants and project leaders in IT Managment and industrial computing.
Directly operational in software and hardware development, they take part at the conception, the realization and the implementation of IT systems in terms of asked specifications.
They are able to answer the needs of the company in network administration, conception and realization of programs, technical assistance and data base management.
Continued studies :
Even if the DUT prepares for a direct professional insertion, 92% of the graduated continue their studies according to the "Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de l'enseignement supérieur" survey in 2014.
For exemple:
- Bac+3 : Professional license
- Bac+5 : engineer school in computing or license and IT master
- Bac+8 : Doctorate in computing
- Possibility to pass many contests
MMI
Access to the formation :
To access the DUT MMI, you have to own the Bac or an equivalent.
The "PPN" privilege the use of Mathematics and other scientifics concepts as tools serving the goals.
Terminal studies level : Bac +2
Training in company duration : 10 weeks
Opportunities with this DUT :
The versatility of the MMI graduated allows a professional insertion in creative agencies of websites, multimedia design, communication, advertising or event.
The various skills of the DUT MMI owners is also appreciated by the public or private organizations or by IT services.
Continued studies :
Even if the DUT prepares for a direct professional insertion, 86% of the graduated continue their studies according to the "Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de l'enseignement supérieur" survey in 2014.
Those studies are various in the 3 main domains of the formation :
- Audiovisual
- Communication
- Web design
GEA
Access to the formation :
To access the GEA DUT, you need to own a Baccalaureate "ES","L","S","STI2D","STMG" or a "D.A.E.U".
Admission after study of the file or after an interview.
Terminal studies level : Bac +2
Opportunities with this DUT :
The GEA DUT has the advantage to offer both direct professional insertion (human ressources management, accountant, banks...) and continued studies to the moddle or long term.
Continued studies :
Even if the DUT prepares for a direct professional insertion, 91% of the graduated continue their studies according to the "Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de l'enseignement supérieur" survey in 2014.
For exemple
- Professional license
- IAE
- DCG
- License and master
Stages 
The students can do their second year internship as a project graduation
in a university laboratory of a partner establishment.
In this context, the first year students postulate in june for an internship that takes place in second year.
The students also have the possibility to find an internship abroad by their own means.
For more informations, you can read the
terms of candidature one the website of the Artois University.
Internships in GEA
The GEA department offers you 1 stage for the 3rd semester :
It takes place in
Seville in
Spain at the
Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
For more informations, click on the country you want.
Semesters
The students have the possibility to perform a semester of study for their second year in the UIT.
To do this, students have to pose their candidature during the year before their derparture.
For more informations, you can read the
terms of candidature one the website of the Artois University.
Semesters in TC
The TC department offers to you 2 study stays for the 4th semester :
They take place in
Canada :
- The first one is in Montréal at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal.
- The second takes place in Chicoutimi at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC).
For more informations, click on the school you want.
Check CREPUQ group for more informations.
Semesters in IT
The IT department offers to you 2 study stays for the 4th semester :
They take place in
Canada :
- The first one is in Montréal at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal.
- The second takes place in Chicoutimi at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC).
For more informations, click on the school you want.
Check CREPUQ group as well as the internship in Japan for more informations.
Semesters in MMI
The MMI department offers to you 2 study stays for the 4th semester :
They take place in
Canada :
- The first one is in Montréal at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal.
- The second takes place in Chicoutimi at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC).
For more informations, click on the school you want.
Check CREPUQ group as well as the internship in Japan for more informations.
Semesters in GEA
The GEA department offers to you 2 study stays for the 4th semester :
They take place in
Canada :
- The first one is in Montréal at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montréal.
- The second takes place in Chicoutimi at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC).
For more informations, click on the school you want.
Check CREPUQ group for more informations.
Advices
In the Advices section, we've got 4 parts :
The benefits of a journey abroad
How to pay for the journey abroad ?
How to prepare the journey ?
The record of a student that daparted with the Lens UIT for a semester abroad
What are the benefits ?
Study abroad has became common for students, it's a way to live a rich experience but it's also a way of making his CV more shiny
This can bring varius benefits to you :
Master another language
To master a language, you need to practice regularly, by going abroad, you won't have other choice to manage in english or in the country's language.
Become autonomous
Being autonomous and independent is a major advantage in your future professional life. Choose a housing, take transports in another country will make you more autonomous really fast.
Discover another culture
Every country have his own culture, it's an awesome experience to discover and live it himself while studying or working.
Enrich your CV
This abroad experience will make your CV shine. It's an awesome advantage because that's the proof you master another language and that you're autonomous, this experience will make a huge difference between you and the others candidates.
Learn new ways to teach
Classes are in the country's main language, so you'll need to adjust yourself but this is generally quite fast
The relation between student and teacher isn't the same according to the country, for exemple in Canada, there is only few lecture course,
the teachers prefere encourage the communcation with the students. Various students keep a nice memories about their stay abroad.
Expend your address diary
Some works needs to have contacts everywhere, a good communication network can turn out to be really usefull in your professional evolution.
By going abroad, you will rub shoulders with people coming from everywhere in the World.
How to finance it ?
Different funding exists for international mobility, whether in the context of studies or internships.
This funding is subject to certain eligibility criteria.
International Mobility Assistance (IMA)
- To be a scholar on social criteria (CROUS national scholarship)
or recipient of the annual emergency aid of the CROUS (accumulates with these scholarships)
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- In the case of an internship: not to be paid or rewarded, internship planned and validated by credits ECTS
in the formation of the University of Artois
- Around 400 € per month of mobility
Device International Mobility Grant of the Regional Council
Hauts-de-France: The "Mermoz Scholarship"
The Region activates the "Mermoz grant" to encourage Hauts-de-France students to study abroad, Here are the main criteria to be met in order to obtain this regional aid:
- Be enrolled in training at a higher education institution in the Hauts-de-France Region (in our case the University of Artois), Bac + 2 to Bac +8
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- Mobility must be done continuously in the same country and in one host institution.
- Duration financed Study stays: 4 to 26 weeks.
- Duration financed Internship: 6 to 26 weeks in short training (here DUT).
- Only one possible attribution during the university course.
- Are ineligible: Assistantship, students in Continuing Education, foreign students domiciled in France (date entered on French territory) for less than 2 years consecutive to the date of the beginning of the mobility, the students in the gap year, the students receiving the mobility grant from another region, non-scholarship students on social criteria starting internships receiving a remuneration of more than 230 € / week or housed + fed (students fellows on social criteria only eligible for the travel package in that case).
- The host country must be different from the nationality of the student.
- The amount of funding depends on the Family Quotient of the student's tax home (the maximum amount being € 92.40 per week).
- Travel package of 300 € for scholarship students on social criteria.
Erasmus allocation + Studies
The Erasmus + program
- To be selected to leave with the Erasmus study program (students leaving for their country of origin are not a priority).
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- Students with disabilities can make international mobility and depending on their situation, apply for additional and specific funding.
- The Erasmus + scholarship (studies or internships combined) can be collected several times during the university course with a maximum of
12 months per study cycle.
- The student must leave the territory 3 months minimum from date to date (90 days minimum) / 12 months maximum
- The monthly amount of scholarship is determined according to the host country:
| Group |
Country of destination |
Amount of study mobility |
| Group 1 |
Ireland |
200 at 300€ |
| Group 2 |
Greece |
150 at 250€ |
You are only offered the countries concerned by the IUT of Lens.
Erasmus allocation + Internships
- An internship of a minimum duration of 2 months, 12 months being the maximum duration, in an eligible institution
(all bodies engaged in economic activity in the public or private sector are considered eligible)
Read more ...
- Students leaving in their home country are not a priority
- Applications for a first mobility are a priority
- Applications for a compulsory training course are priority
- Students with disabilities can make international mobility and according to their situation,
apply for additional and disability-specific funding under the Erasmus + program.
Information from the International Relations Department.
- The Erasmus + scholarship can be collected several times during the university course at a rate of 12 months per course of study
- The monthly amount of scholarship is determined according to the host country :
| Group |
Country of destination |
Amount of study mobility |
| Group 1 |
Ireland |
350 at 450€ |
| Group 2 |
Greece, Spain, Poland, Romania |
300 at 400€ |
You are only offered the countries concerned by the IUT of Lens.
How to prepare ?
How to manage to make your stay a succesful experience on the sport and useful for your future ?
Before going
- Take contact with your new class
Thanks to the social networks, you can take contact with the students you'll be with in classes or with employee wich could help you and give you advices for your internship.
- Choose a housing
Campus, collocation, private apartment, room in private home : there's several ways to housing, choose the one that fit the best for you. Do a turn on forums to ask for advices to the residents.
On the spot
- Become known by the theachers
In many countries, teachers are really approachable, enjoy it to see them and ask some questions, extend a thematic seen in class.
- Participate in class
In most english-speeking countries, teachers try to make their classes look like a debate or a discussion. Participate will help you to understand the classes and improve your level in this language.
- Participate in sports clubs, cultural clubs ...
A good way to success the integration is to participate to the activities proposed by the campus or the city. Between sport, sciences, party : you have spoiled of choice.
Back in France
- Make a balance sheet
Once back in France, take some hours to make the balance sheet of everything you lived, you learned, you liked, you didn't like and what disapointed you.
- Take care of your network
With Internet and social networks, keep in touch with the people you met is really easy. Facebook for friends, LinkedIn for the professional contacts and the teachers... This may be useful in your future professional career or for another travel abroad.
Record
Nicolas, a student from the TC department, went to Canada.
My name's Nicolas, I'm 23 years old.
I had the opportunity to leave in Canada for 6 months, for a semester abroad.
When did you start preparing your departure to Canada ?
I thought leaving to Canada even before the first year in DUT.
When I was 19, i went to the USA for 2 months during hollidays to work as a monitor in an aquatic centre then as an advisor in a « Visitor Center » in Santa Barbara, California.
I've benefited to visit the Canadian west coast, from Seattle to Vancouver to reach the Alaska's border. I really liked Canada and I told myself that maybe I should go for a longer duration.
How did you obtain your student VISA for Canada ?
I've made some researches on this point, because the Canada's government website wasn't really clear on the need to have a student VISA for a single semester. After plenty of researches, it turned out that the student VISA wasn't necessary in the mesure I wanted to stay for less than 6 months and I didn't want to work in a company.
I also went without any VISA, and they gave me a temporar stay VISA at my arrival in the airport for a duration of 6 months.
Be careful, even if the VISA isn't necessary before your departure, be sure to have all the documents to prove your admission at a Canadian establishment for the duration of your stay. When you'll arrive to the airport, the customs wont hesitate and will browse every documents you've got and also ask you some questions on your ability to fund your stay.
Have you obtained scholarship fund for your studies in Canada ?
I'm not scholarship holder based on the CROUS criterias, so I didn't have any financial help on social criterias. I know the region can help with some grants but I didn't search for more.
Which fly have you reserve for going in Canada ?
I bought my flight ticket on Air Transat, which is one of the cheapest company to go in Canada. In the measure that I waited the last moment before buying it, it was quite expensive, around 950 euros.
Have you reserved a housing before going to Canada ?
Like everyone, I was scared of leaving without find my apartment. So I started my researches in France and I registered on Facebook groups to find a housing fast. There's a lot of announces on the websites, and I found a week before my departure a room in a housing of 7 persons. Then, when I arrived this was the housing I chose !
En revanche, il ne faut pas se reposer sur les résidences étudiantes de l’université, qui ont énormément de règles contraignantes.
How was your arriving in Canada ?
I arrived at the August beginning, and I passed the first 3 days by visiting Montreal with a friend.
Have you made travels during your semester in Canada ?
Yes I managed to travel ! I even made my "group" of friends while traveling. Someone posted an announced to go into Detroit for September. We were 4 students to leave in Detroit (a Belgian, un Dane and a French girl), and it's became my "close friend group" for the semester.
To do it short, I managed to go during the semester :
- A weekend in a cottage by a lake in the Canadian wild.
- In Quebec and in Montreal to discover the Quebecker's province.
- In the USA from the west coast of San Francisco to Las Vegas.
What was your budget for this journey ?
- Housing : 300 euros by month. For a 15 square meters room in a house of 7 people. I was unfortunately quite far away from the campus (10 min in bus).
- Food : 350 euros by month. By doing some restorants every months.
- Fly : 950 euros. Took a month before, a little bit late to get the best price.
- Insurance : Thanks to my card VISA Premier, I was assured on place.
- Travels : 400 euros by months. I was leaving a lot every week-end and doing some quite far travels.
- Going out : 200 euros by months. I was going out a lot every weekends, which has a certain cost !
TC plan
IT plan
MMI plan
GEA plan
CEGEP (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
UQAM (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
UQAC (Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada)
Dundalk Institute of Technology (Dundalk, Ireland)
Institute of Technology Sligo (Sligo, Ireland)
Warsaw University of Technology (Varsovie, Poland)
University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain)
TEI of Thessaly (Larissa, Greece)
Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara (Timisoara, Romania)
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