Attention: Without a proof of the factual dates of your ERASMUS study period that is signed and stamped by the host university at the end of the mobility period, we are required by ERASMUS regulations to demand full back-payment of the ERASMUS grant. (Unfortunately we had to do this a number of times in the past.) 

You receive the link to the second OLS test on the  planned end date of your mobility.

SLI - Global Office
z.Hd. Hr. Purkert
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Official Transcript/Academic Transcript/Transcript of Records
The Official Transcript of the host institution contains the courses you took and the number of ECTS credits and the results. It should be accompanied by an explanatory page if only the local grades and credits are listed, to make the academic recognition at Goethe University easier. The Official Transcript usually is provided automatically and either handed to you after completion of the ERASMUS study period or sent to you by mail or as an email attachment or send to us at the Global Office. If we receive it as a paper original, we send you an email asking you to pick it up or if we should send it to you by mail. If we receive it as an email attachment, we forward the email to you. Transcripts of students of the dept. of Economics are being sent over to Ms. Benzel in the examination office. You have to upload a scan of this transcript as a pdf-file into your participant's account. You need the original for the academic recognition of your courses, we do not need an original at the GO. 

After the recognition step is completed, the administrative ping-pong process in your participant's account has come to an end.

According to the rules of the ERASMUS Programme the creditcs received at the host institution should be fully recognized at the home institution.  All academic istitutions part-taking in the ERASMUS program had to commit themselves to the ERASMUS Charter, wherein this goal is set. Learning Agreement and official Transcript of Records are the relevant documents for the recognition process. Only those courses can be recognized, which were agreed upon in the Learning Agreement and which were proven as completed successfully in the transcript. The recognition of foreign credits can be refused only if the level of studies was not equivalent to that at the home institution or if other requirements were not met. The recognition of credits at Goethe University is a matter of the departments, departmental coordinators or examination offices, the Global Office is no player in this. Please seek advice regarding recognition possibilities before your ERASMUS the mobility, peferably when you seek approval of the Learning Agreement.  

Judical information: On October 01, 2007 an important change was implemented in the process of recognition. Through ratification of the „Lisbon Recognition Convention“ recognition processes for foreign study credits should be simplified for those students studying in the signatory countries. 
The improvements in detail:

• Transparent process: Information on deadlines and contacts has to be communicated transparently and the recognition has to be conducted in a timely manner.
• Reversal of evidence: In order not to recognize a course, the home institution has to prove that the workload and result of that foreign course are not equivalent to the standard of the home institution. This stands in contrast to before, when the student had to prove the equivalence. 
• Lodging a complaint: If a recognition of foreign courses/credits has been refused, a possibility of lodging a complaint has to be made available to the student.
• To prove that a course is not equivalent, a mere scematic comparison is not sufficient. The equivalence with regards to content, workload and quality is of higher importance. That means that results/outcome of learning may not differ significantly. If recognition is refused or undecided upon, legal action may be taken. (More information: www.fzs.de/lissabon)

7. Additionally you can use the form we provide in the download area, Course Certificate for Temporary Students, to prove the participation in a course.

After completion of the ERASMUS administrative process you receive the official ERASMUS+ Certificate in the German and English language. It is provided automatically in your participant's account after you have completed and we have checked all necessary steps which include the official academic transcript of the host institution and the transcript of academic recognition of Goethe University and after we have marked the final outpayment of the mobility grant as completed.