HEAD - Geneva has an extensive and diversified network of partner schools. Every year, about fifty students come to spend a semester at HEAD. A large part of these exchanges takes place within the framework of the Swiss European Mobility Program (SEMP). This program facilitates the admission of Swiss universities to the European program, in accordance with the activities of the Erasmus+ program. In total, HEAD cooperates with more than 110 universities worldwide.

The International relations office organizes these mobilities and ensures that the exchange semester runs smoothly. The team assists students arriving in Switzerland with their administrative procedures and practical everyday questions. It plans information sessions, events and French courses. It puts each NEWcomer in contact with a referent student, a HEADmate, to facilitate his/her integration into the school.

Fact Sheet 2021-22
Arrival in Geneva, practical information

Contact 
International relations office  
international.head@hesge.ch

Mobility for an exchange semester
Bachelor and master students registered in HEAD – Genève, you have the opportunity to stay in one of our partner schools in Switzerland or abroad during your studies. For a period of one semester, these mobility stays are fully enrolled and validated in the study course and do not constitute an interruption of your studies.

Information session on international mobility during the academic year 2021-2022: 
This information session, initially scheduled for 8 October, has been postponed to November. More information will be given at the end of October.  

Exchange program, Academic year 2020/21

/// Spring 2020/21 semester exchange ///

Mandatory information session on Preparation of your application, for students interested in an exchange in Spring 2020/21
The power point of this preparation session has been sent to students on May 19, 2020.

The application form is sent to the Office of International Relations: 
from September 23 to September 30, 11:00 - 13:00, by e-mail to anne-laure.beuret@hesge.ch.

Fall 2020/21 semester exchange Departure -  Mandatory - Information session about getting ready for departure > for nominated students only 
Tuesday, December 8th 2020, at 6:30 pm, E Building, Georges-Ador room

Application Form to apply for an exchange OUT

Mobility for an internship
Students enrolled in internships abroad that enable to get ECTS credits have to the possibility to apply for a mobility grant, under the following conditions:
- the application is completed before the start of the internship
- the internship lasts at least 2 full months (eg. 01.06 to 01.08) for internships within the Swiss-European Mobility Programme/Erasmus+ area.
- the internship lasts at least 4 weeks for internships in the countries outside the Swiss-European Mobility Programme/Erasmus+ area.

The organisation of the internship is the student responsibility in collaboration with its respective department. 

SEMP (Swiss Europen Mobility Program) Mobility for the teaching team
Teachers and members of the administrative team at HEAD – Genève have the possibility of receiving grants for education and further training. These grants are awarded to co-workers in mobility in Erasmus partner schools, which HEAD – Genève has signed a SEMP contract with. Members of the teaching and administrative team with a mobility project in Europe are kindly asked to contact the department of international relations.

HEAD –  Genève is a member of several professional federations that help to enhance its international reputation and network.

International Association of Independent Art and Design Schools
Centre international de liaison des écoles de cinéma et de télévision
Cumulus
The European League of Institutes of the Arts

Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of two major European art schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole and HEAD-Genève. This international researcher-in-residence program is dedicated to the practice of art in public space, critical approaches to landscape and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. Residents are selected on the basis of the singularity of specific projects they present.

Fieldwork: Marfa caters to emerging artists, curators and/or researchers whose projects require immersion into the specific environment of Marfa and Texas territory, and encourages the development of experimental research methods, diverse modes of inquiries and fieldwork practices.

Fieldwork: Marfa is an inter-school research group that provides a framework for the incursions and endeavors of researchers-in-residence. The work itself fuels various joint projects, in the form of an ongoing annual program based on the participants’ residency schedules:

• A series of workshops and symposia alternating between the three schools, including working sessions;
• A schedule of meetings based on the research projects, held on home ground, in Marfa;
• An editorial and communication program showcasing the contributions or reports from various researchers, students or occasional guests.

The Fieldwork: Marfa research program is based on a one-year academic cycle. This period, during which researchers develop their own personal projects, is punctuated by a number of pre-planned milestones:

• A two-month residency period in Marfa followed by a public presentation of their ongoing research at the Fieldwork: Marfa gallery;
• A feedback period, during which the residents continue their work and present their research through the organization of seminars and workshops, meetings with teachers and students from partner schools and guest participants.
• The Fieldwork: Marfa annual meeting, held during the month of October in Marfa, invite hand-selected outside speakers to share their research and work through the issues raised through the year of the residency program.
• An online publication is constructed with the researcher-in-residence throughout the year. The editorial object is thought less as a report of the residency experience than as an extension of it.
• On the website are published a series of texts, video-portaits, various documents, and contributions by experts and guests participants showcasing research outputs and developments.

The rest of the time, the researchers-in-residence are remotely but personally in touch with one of the research directors at at ESBA Nantes Métropole, or HEAD-Genève.

2016.06.01, The Annex, Crash Magazine