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§8 Fees

There is a common fee for studying in EMCL. The exact amount is decided yearly by the Joint Commission. The common fee is collected each semester by the coordinating institution.

Each semester each partner university announces in writing to the coordinating institution its local fee, which includes the expenses related to the EMCL, and the names of the EMCL students who have selected it as their host institution for this semester. The coordinating institution pays the minimum of the common fee and the local fee immediately after it has received the common fee from all the student and the announcement from all the partner universities. Additional compensation rules may apply (see §9).

If a partner university announces in writing to the coordinating institution that it is willing to pay the local fee for an EMCL student who has selected it as his/her host institution for this semester and the local fee is smaller than the common fee, then the announcement will be regarded as partial payment of the common fee, the student is required to pay the difference between the common fee and the local fee, and no fees or compensation are transferred by the coordinating institution to the partner university for this student.

If a partner university, whose local fee is higher than the common fee, announces in writing to the coordinating institution that it is willing to pay the common fee for an EMCL student who has selected it as his/her host university for this semester, then the announcement will be regarded as payment of the common fee and the corresponding amount is not transferred by the coordinating institution to the partner university for this student.

Students have to pay student services fees to the coordinating university and their host university for each semester (if there is any).