Health & Safety | International Programs

Your wellbeing is our high precedence.

Throughout your complete research overseas expertise your welfare and security is FSU’s high precedence. FSU International Programs has been sending college students overseas for over 65 years and continues to remain up-to-date on greatest practices and trade requirements of security.  

Our abroad program workers preserve shut contact with our Tallahassee workplace and different fundamental campus departments, in addition to trusted native, nationwide, and worldwide safety assets. 

Pre-departure and on-site orientations element security procedures and what life is like overseas to arrange you to your expertise. Each program has an emergency plan detailing native well being care services and emergency assembly factors, and different contingency plans.

While overseas, college students are required to report impartial journey through the IP online travel form so our workers can present applicable help within the occasion of an emergency. FSU IP is absolutely dedicated to serving to you obtain your research overseas goals whereas sustaining a protected and safe studying surroundings for you. 

Insurance

Health Insurance

When you research overseas with FSU, your program charge consists of worldwide medical and evacuation insurance coverage protection by way of IP’s contracted insurance coverage and help suppliers. A hyperlink to the coverage is offered beneath. The protection might be efficient for individuals from the day this system begins till the day this system ends. 

Note: This worldwide coverage is NOT supposed to interchange your home medical health insurance protection that FSU expects you to buy or preserve. For extra details about FSU’s home insurance coverage choices and necessities, go to the FSU Student Insurance website. 

Travel Insurance Information

FSU International Programs encourages you to think about buying private journey or journey insurance coverage. Travel insurance coverage is available in many kinds and may present monetary safety in case you have to cancel your participation or considerably change your journey plans on account of unexpected circumstances. Depending on the coverage, protection might embody reimbursement for misplaced baggage, journey delays, flight disruptions, and journey cancellations. Travel insurance coverage just isn’t medical insurance coverage, which is already included in your program charge. 

HUB Global Solutions affords the SquareMouth platform, which permits vacationers to go looking, evaluate, and buy journey insurance coverage. These plans are separate from FSU International Programs’ insurance coverage protection and usually are not endorsed by FSU or FSU International Programs. For extra info on buying insurance coverage for private days or different non-compulsory providers, go to HUB Global Solutions Options for Personal Travel and Optional Services.

You even have the choice to analysis journey insurance coverage and journey cancellation insurance policies by utilizing the Travel Insurance Review website. The Travel Insurance 101: The Complete Guide to Travel Insurance part is especially useful for these simply starting their analysis. There can be a bit that lets you compare different policies. 

Travel Resources

University Policies & Resources

While finding out overseas is a singular and thrilling expertise, college students stay representatives of Florida State University and are anticipated to uphold the identical requirements of conduct as they might on campus. All program individuals are topic to FSU insurance policies, guidelines, and procedures, together with these outlined within the FSU Student Handbook and Student Conduct Code, which stay in impact all through the length of this system, no matter location. 

Title IX policies and reporting necessities apply to all FSU IP research overseas packages and have to be adhered to by all college students and workers. FSU IP school and workers are thought-about obligatory reporters and are legally obligated to report incidents of sex-based discrimination and sexual misconduct. For extra info, please go to FSU kNOwMORE.  

We encourage college students to familiarize themselves with these insurance policies earlier than departure. Maintaining respectful, accountable conduct helps guarantee a protected and constructive expertise for all individuals and displays the values of the FSU neighborhood worldwide. 

Clery Act

In accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the “Clery Act”), Florida State University should present annual discover to the campus neighborhood concerning the provision of the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is obtainable and will be seen on the Florida State University Police Department’s Clery Act & Crime Reporting webpage.  

The report consists of vital info concerning insurance policies on campus security and associated points, resembling crime reporting, emergency procedures and notifications, alcohol and drug use, weapons, sexual violence and relationship violence, fireplace security in on-campus scholar housing services, and different security and safety subjects. The report additionally consists of crime statistics for the earlier three calendar years, which have occurred on or inside the college’s Clery geography, and fireplace statistics for the earlier three calendar years protecting fires occurring in on-campus scholar housing services.