{"id":602,"date":"2021-01-26T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:58:15","slug":"obw-ontario-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/obw-ontario-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1013\" width=\"355\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop.jpg 807w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop-768x286.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kt-sc602_9585da-58 .kt-sc-imgcol, .kt-sc602_9585da-58 .kt-sc-textcol{min-height:450px;}.kt-sc602_9585da-58 .kt-sc-textcol{padding-top:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:24px;padding-left:24px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-sc602_9585da-58 .kt-sc-imgcol, .kt-sc602_9585da-58 .kt-sc-textcol{min-height:450px;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"aligncenter kt-sc602_9585da-58 wp-block-kadence-splitcontent\"><div class=\"kt-split-content-wrap kt-sc-media-side-left\" style=\"grid-template-columns:46% auto\"><div class=\"kt-sc-imgcol kt-sc-imgcol-bg-auto kt-sc-img-side-left\"><figure class=\"kt-split-content-media-image wp-image-container-1621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2022\/11\/uni-stuttgart.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"673\" class=\"kt-split-content-img wp-image-1621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2022\/11\/uni-stuttgart.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2022\/11\/uni-stuttgart-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2022\/11\/uni-stuttgart-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"kt-sc-textcol kt-sc-text-valign-top kt-sc-text-halign-center\"><div class=\"kt-sc-innter-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e\"]{text-align:left;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h4 class=\"kt-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_ec899d-0e\"><i class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i> OBW Information Session<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">OBW Summer Research Program drop-in information session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Thursday, December 11, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yorku.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/hVo0h3sjT82EZI6lETAf6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register here!<\/a><br><br>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff7da\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Ontario\/Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg partnership offers three different kinds of opportunity for Ontario students to experience a part of their university education at a partner university in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/obw-programs-for-ontario-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elsewhere on this website<\/a> you will find detailed information on each of these opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants in our most ambitious and longest-established program, the OBW Student Exchange, live and study in Germany for one or two full semesters. We also offer shorter-stay summer programs that provide opportunities of between one and three months in duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We encourage all eligible and qualified undergraduate and graduate Ontario students to apply. The programs are open to students in virtually all academic disciplines with the exceptions of medicine and dentistry. The eligibility rules vary from program to program, so please check the detailed information on the relevant pages of this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Applicants to the 2026-27 OBW academic exchange programs and the 2026 summer programs are eligible for scholarship support (available to Canadian citizens and permanent residents only). The scholarship funding has been generously provided by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security. For more information regarding the scholarship support, please contact the OBW Ontario Program Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h5 class=\"kt-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading has-accent-color has-text-color\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_cd5ace-46\">Who are OBW students?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, exchange students remain full-time degree-seeking students at their home university. As such, they pay tuition fees at their home university, but not at their host university (though some non-tuition fees will be payable there). The exception is the International Summer Course at the University of T\u00fcbingen, for which participants pay a tuition fee assessed by the University of T\u00fcbingen. It is students\u2019 responsibility to ensure, in consultation with their academic advisors, that they continue to make good progress toward degree completion while studying at the partner university in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our experience is that every student who applies to participate in the OBW program has important academic and personal reasons for doing so. There are however a number of goals that many participants share. If the following apply to you, we hope that you too will decide to apply to study in Germany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>you want to make your university education something very special, to accept a new challenge, and to experience life in another part of the world;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you are interested in living and studying in one of Germany\u2019s and Europe\u2019s most beautiful, prosperous, culturally dynamic, and technologically advanced regions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you want to enhance your future marketability by gaining international experience and developing your intercultural competence;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you are excited about being an ambassador in Germany for your home university, for the OBW program, and for the Province of Ontario; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you want to be a member of a group of students from across Ontario selected to participate in the OBW program on the basis of their academic achievements, extracurricular involvement, and outstanding personal qualities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_120c78-18\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_120c78-18\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_120c78-18\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h5 class=\"kt-adv-heading602_120c78-18 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading has-accent-color has-text-color\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading602_120c78-18\">What are the advantages to studying in Germany with OBW?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who are accepted to participate in the OBW program enjoy the following privileges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>OBW scholarship support<\/strong> (available to Canadian citizens and permanent residents only)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>expert advising and support on both sides of the Atlantic;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>expedited admission to one of Germany\u2019s great universities;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a preparatory language-immersion course and local orientation at the host university, immediately prior to the beginning of the semester proper (long-stay exchange only);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>preferential placement in a student residence;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>continued eligibility for OSAP, as well as for OGS, SSHRC, etc. scholarship support;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>continued eligibility for scholarships held at the home university (subject to that university\u2019s policies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1013\" width=\"355\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop.jpg 807w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/ouinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/02\/JPEG_obw-crop-768x286.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario\/Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg partnership offers three different kinds of opportunity for Ontario students to experience a part of their university education at a partner university in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. 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