University of Jena and Penn State: Opportunities

Working and studying in a different cultural environment will be exciting and rewarding for those who can respond to the opportunity.

Collaborating on research of common interests across cultures may bring to bear new insights and, ultimately, stronger outcomes.

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Faculty exchanges typically can be arranged at the departmental level. For example, a faculty member from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies could be given a work assignment in Developmental Psychology at the University of Jena at the same time that a faculty member from Developmental Psychology in Jena receives an assignment to work for one semester in Human Development and Family Studies. Such arrangements include moderate expenses for both departments mostly to cover travel and housing. Typically, no salary funds are involved, as each department continues to pay its own faculty member’s salary. In other cases, external funding may be obtained to structure the exchanges somewhat differently.

Student exchanges may be structured similarly, with the Penn State student paying the regular Penn State tuition when doing academic work at the University of Jena, in return allowing a student from Jena to study at Penn State.

Joint and/or collaborative proposals for external funding for research projects, faculty, staff and student exchanges, excursions and conferences are encouraged.

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