Course recognition (Anerkennung von Prüfungsleistungen)

Once you have received your transcript of records (Sammelzeugnis), you need to submit an official request for the recognition of your grades. The recognition document is a very official document, which is why processing can take several weeks. Eventually your results will also be visible in U:Space. 
You may submit your application either directly at SSS Anglistik (sss.anglistik@univie.ac.at) or send it to the Department's mobility coordinator team at erasmus.anglistik@univie.ac.at, who also checked your online learning agreement (Erasmus+) and your Vorausbescheid (Non-EU Exchange) before the start of your exchange semester. You will receive your official recognition document (Anerkennungsbescheid)  from our Studienservicestelle, and can then upload it in Mobility Online. This procedure may take up to eight weeks. If you need recognitions from more than one SPL, please use separate forms and send each application to the SPL in charge.

The following documents are needed:

1. Transcript of records of host university (original or scan/pdf).

2. Application for recognition (Ansuchen um Anerkennung) - scroll down to the Download section at the end of the website and then use the form designed for your particular study programme. Erasmus+ participants may also use the form provided directly in Mobility Online.

Students receiving (Auslands-)Studienbeihilfe can either hand in a separate SB confirmation form (SB/A2) (in addition to the application for recognition) or forward the Anerkennungsbescheid to the Studienbeihilfenbehörde.

NOTE ALSO:

  • The International Office's two-month-period for carrying out the recognition does not start until you have received your transcript, and can be extended by the Erasmus Office if necessary.
     The latest date to upload your Anerkennungsbescheid is mid-November (following the exchange semester).

  • ONCE A RECOGNITION HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT AND BEEN CONFIRMED BY YOU, IT CANNOT BE CHANGED ANY MORE (principle of legal certainty / Prinzip der Rechtssicherheit). This means that you cannot ask for a course recognised for Module x in the curriculum to be shifted to Module y later on.

February registration phase following a semester spent abroad

After a winter semester spent abroad, your grades will not arrive quickly enough to be entered in time for SoSe module registration. In this case, do the following:

a) Send in your recognition application and your transcript as soon as you have received your grades to prove you have passed the prerequisite modules abroad

and

b) contact the mobility coordinators team (erasmus.anglistik@univie.ac.at) while the February registration period is still on. Select your courses in U:Space. You will be switched from "angelegt Voraussetzungsprüfung" to "vorgemerkt" and will be allocated to courses. Unfortunately, we cannot influence the study progress percentage of the automatic system, which is now the basis for the allocation algorithm.

After a spring semester stay abroad, it is your responsibility to ensure that courses are recognised in good time, i.e. before registration starts in September.