Undertake studiesin another member state
It allows a young person or a student to undertake or continue studies in another Member State within the framework of an individual mobility or an organized mobility (Community programs SOCRATES or LEONARDO, bilateral exchange programs...) as well as the academic recognition of your Spanish diplomas in France.
In the latter case, the recognition of diplomas is generally provided for in exchange agreements, or through the application of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
In most European countries, higher education institutions are autonomous in their admission decisions.
A few countries have also retained a centralized system that gives decision-making authority to the ministry responsible for higher education (Belgium, Spain, Finland, Luxembourg) or to bodies created for this purpose (Greece).
The Member States of the European Community and the States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area have acceded to the multilateral conventions of the Council of Europe concerning :
- Access to academic institutions (December 11, 1953),
- Equivalence of study periods (December 15, 1956),
- Academic Recognition of University Qualifications (15 December 1959), and the UNESCO Europe Region Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees concerning Higher Education in the States belonging to the Europe Region (21 December 1979).
- A single Council of Europe/UNESCO Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region replacing the existing conventions was adopted by the Lisbon Diplomatic Conference on 11 April 1997.
For all the details you can consult the European information centers:
The mission of these centers is to provide all useful information on the recognition procedures in the countries concerned. The organization varies from country to country. When only one center is mentioned, it provides information on academic and professional recognition and is also a "contact point" for information on regulated professions. Their list can be consulted on the ENIC-NARIC Network website.
For the sake of completeness we would like to bring you the latest general information available, to our knowledge, to date.
In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights, seized for a complaint against the Italian state concerning the numerus clausus, ruled on its legality in the name of the fact that it is in the general interest of a country's citizens. Its decision also specified that the right to freedom of activity is assessed in each state according to the economic and social context of the state concerned. In addition, the ECHR specified that the social need for a profession allows the use of professionals trained within the European Union, outside the borders of the state concerned, recognizing the right of the latter to be rigorous in its regulation, specifically in the medical field where a minimum and adequate level of competence is entitled to be verified. The applicants were not denied the right to continue their studies abroad. The court emphasized that this decision was a precedent for the member states of the ECHR.
A state will therefore be able to call upon health professionals trained in another European Union state to meet its needs for trained and competent personnel on its territory. The age pyramid and the numerus clausus levels currently proposed in France in the medical and paramedical fields will therefore allow competent professionals trained in the European Union, in Spain for example, to integrate into the labor market as it will evolve in the years to come.
Are you a medical graduate in Spain? And you want to do your specialty in France?
You must then take the ECN competition.
All the information about this contest is on this link.
