During their first year, all students study at their home university (either in Mainz or in Dijon) and spend their second year at the partner university. While the first year serves as an orientation and a preparation phase, the second year is highly focussed on encountering the partner education system. Students have to perform an internship in the partner country in order to take a look at the foreign labour market. The third year gives major importance to the integration of the student groups starting in both countries. All students spend the fifth semester in Dijon and the sixth semester in Mainz, where each student completes a Bachelor's thesis. Under certain circumstances and upon consultation with the coordinating offices, students may participate in an additional exchange with the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) during the fifth semester.
Participants starting at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, spend the third, fourth, and fifth semesters at Université de Bourgogne, Dijon.
Participants starting at Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, spend the third, fourth, and sixth semesters at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
Both participant groups can potentially spend the fifth semester at Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Canada).
An internship of at least three or four weeks has to be completed during the break after the fourth and the fifth semester. This internship has to be done in the partner country. The cultural institutions of the partner regions, Maison Rhénanie-Palatinat in Dijon and Haus Burgund in Mainz, provide assistance with finding an internship.