If you want to use your one semester free of teaching (140 hours) it is important to inform Lene Conley or the PhD-administrator at iNANO about it. You can do this in the comment box in the form, where you register your teaching requests. It is not enough just to omit filling out the form!
You are also free to use your teaching-free semester (140 hours) at any other time during your PhD
If your are going on a long-term stay abroad it is possible to get teaching exemption for a maximum of 6 months in connection with your stay abroad.
To be eligible for exemption from 70 hours of teaching obligations, the stay(s) must overlap with at least 6 full weeks of teaching periods (not necessarily in a single teaching semester). To be eligible for exemption from 140 hours (i.e. one semester), the stay(s) must overlap with at least 12 full weeks of teaching periods. Read more in Rules and Regulations.
You have to send a application about this by e-mail to the PhD-partner at GSNS with CC to the supervisor.
If you are gone for more than 6 months, you have to use your teaching-free semester (one or two quarters).
Please note: if you are going abroad in your par A (on SU scholarship + a separate teaching contract) you cannot get exemption from GSNS. Contact Lene Conley instead.