Linnaeus Palme International Exchange Programme
Linnaeus-Palme is an Swedish exchange programme, introduced in May 2000, for teachers and students at undergraduate and master's level of higher education and aims at strengthening co-operation between institutions of higher education in Sweden and developing countries and thereby increasing global contacts in the world of higher education.
The programme is administered by the International Programme Office for Education and Training and financed by Sida, Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency.
The exchange covers two parts:
– Linnaeus scholarships for outbound Swedish participants abroad since it was the custom of Carl von Linné to send his apprentices out into the world in order to gather information, and
– Palme scholarships for foreign participants as Olof Palme was deeply involved in the conditions faced by developing countries and their opportunities for development. The underlying idea is mutual co-operation between institutions of higher education will enrich the countries involved and provide a basis for broader partnerships between them.
Three types of exchange programmes |
1. Travelling grants for preparing exchange projects
These journeys should be for one week. 35 000 SEK are offered as a grant, which includes travelling expenses for well established teachers from both countries to visit each other´s universities/colleges.
2. Exchange of Teachers
The exchange should be for five weeks. Two additional weeks of language course can be added. For the Linnaeus partner (travelling away from Sweden) the grant includes travelling expenses plus parts of living costs in the respective country, according to norms set by the Swedish government. For the Palme partner (coming to Sweden) the grant includes travelling expenses plus 600 SEK per day spent in Sweden.
3. Exchange of Students
The exchange should last for 1–2 semesters on full-time basis. The student must have completed one year of study in his home country before the exchange programme starts. The studies abroad should then be considered as equal to studies at the home university.
The out-going Linnaeus students are given a grant of 25 000 SEK for one semester or 40 000 SEK for two semesters.
The in-coming Palme students are given a grant of 45 000 SEK for one semester or 75 000 SEK for two semesters. Travelling expenses should be taken out of these money. Tuition fees are not accepted as this should be an exchange programme.
Students interested in these grants should contact the department at which they are studying, as it is the departments which are given the grants and decide which students should be selected.
A precondition for student exchange is that there has previously been a teacher´s exchange at the respective department.