OLA for shorter exchange studies - Instructions

Make your account
Students log into the OLA system using their UI email address (xxx@hi.is).
Do not use “Log in with Google” or other personal emails

Students have to choose the mobility type:

Undergraduate and graduate students going on short-term mobilities choose „Blended Mobility with Short-term Physical Mobility“.
PhD students choose „Short-term Doctoral Mobility“.

Step 1 – STUDENT INFORMATION

Here students insert the information that is missing, e.g.:

Field of Education
Study Cicle - level of studies

Step 2 – SENDING INSTITUTION INFORMATION

Here students insert information about UI, which is their sending institution.

Sending Responsible Person is the international coordinator in the student’s faculty. List of contacts

Students should also insert information about the sending Administrative Contact Person - Brynjar Þór Elvarsson - shortmobility@hi.is / +354 525 4311

Step 3 – RECEIVING INSTITUTION INFORMATION

Here students put in information about the host university. Note that the names of the host universities in the drop-down list are their legal names and can be in the language of the host country.

The Receiving Responsible Person is the person in the host university that signs the learning agreement on their behalf.

The host institution should give information on who this person is. We recommend that students look up information pages for incoming exchange students on the host university websites. If students cannot find any information on the responsible person they can contact the host university.

If the host university has an additional contact managing the student exchange then they can be added as the Receiving Administrative Contact Person.

Step 4 – MOBILITY PROGRAMME

Students insert information about the course at the host university and how it will be recognized at the University of Iceland.
Students need to insert the following information:

Course title
Component Code
Number of ECTS credits to be recognized by the University of Iceland
Short description of the virtual component of the course
Language of instruction
Language of competence of the language of instruction

Step 5 – COMMITMENT

The final step is to sign the agreement.

Sign with the computer mouse or your finger, if you are signing on your phone app or tablet.

Once students have signed they select “Sign and send the Online Learning Agreement to the Responsible person at the Sending Institution for review” and then the agreement is sent to the student’s faculty.