Before you apply
Key information
We have included below all the information you should familiarize yourself with before you start your adventure with the Erasmus+ program.
Types of stays
Within the scope of Erasmus+ programme, CUE students may go abroad to study or to do internship. You can do your internship while still being a student, during the summer semester, or as a graduate within 12 months from your graduation. If you go as a student, you need to hold student status before you leave and after you return, while if you apply for a graduate stay, you need to hold a student status at the time of enrolment, but you will go after your graduation. Your status cannot change from student to graduate during your internship. For the graduate trip, you are recruited as a student in the final year of a bachelor’s degree (if you are not pursuing a second degree) or a master’s degree.
Compliance with the field of study
Erasmus+ internship must be related to your field of study. Generally speaking, it must guarantee you have a Chance to gain competences related to your field of study within economics in the broad meaning of the term. If in doubts whether your internship programme is compliant with your field of study, contact the Student Career Centre. Your internship abroad may be either your obligatory or optional internship. Whether it will be credited as the obligatory internship is up to your internship supervisor in your home CUE faculty. The fact that you have completed internship during your studies will be noted in your diploma supplement – remember to inform your dean’s office about it.
Mobility capital
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ program, you have the opportunity to travel several times for Erasmus+ studies and internships. These trips can last a total of up to 12 months for each degree of first, second and third degree studies, and up to 24 months for unified master’s studies. The so-called. Mobility capital is assigned to the degree of study in which recruitment takes place. Graduate trips count toward the capital of the degree, after which they are followed.
Length of internship
Your internship may last from 2 to 12 months within a single edition of the programme if your mobility capital is sufficient. You don’t need to plan your stay in terms of full months as it will be squared with 1 day accuracy; a month is squared as 30 days. The minimum duration of your stay is 60 days. The internship should begin and end on a business day, unless the receiving institution operates on other days of the week as well.
Graduate traineeships
In order to go abroad for your internship as a graduate, you need to be enrolled during your last year of studies and you need to hold a student status.
The graduate internship may begin right after your graduation or later, but keep in mind that it needs to be completed within 12 months from the date of graduation, within a single edition of the programme. The date of graduation is understood as the date of your final exam if passed. If you go for a graduate internship, but you are planning to continue your studies through the next grade, plan your stay in such a way that it is completed before the start of the next academic year. For graduate internship, the recommended time from your graduation (final exam) and the date of your leave is minimum 2 weeks.
Enrolment
Enrolment for the internship programme takes place at times defined by the SCC and is based on score for your academic achievements and your knowledge of a foreign language. Additional points may be granted for finding an employer at the enrolment stage or documented forms of student activity for promotion of CUE or volunteering. You may apply for one internship stay only within one enrolment.
Employer
How do you find the perfect internship?
Going abroad for the internship may be a lifetime’s adventure, but it is as much of a challenge and a test of your self-sufficiency, because you will be organising the entire stay on your own, including finding the employer or accommodation. Thanks to that, you go there on your own terms and according to your preference. Virtually any company, institution or organization operating in one of the program’s 32 countries can become your employer, as long as the internship program is consistent with your field of study. If you have any doubts about the compatibility of the proposed responsibilities with your field of study, please contact us.
Don’t put everything off until the last minute
The earlier you start looking for an employer, the more applications you send in – the better the chance of finding attractive internships, also with a salary. You are the one who decides on the location and the employer; it is largely up to you how much the internship will be developing, passionate and in line with your expectations!
You can search for offers on job portals, social networks, ask former programme participants. You can type in search phrases including the names of cities, countries or positions, combined with the word ‘internship’, ‘placement’, ‘traineeship’ or ‘Erasmus’
You can also search with Google map for companies in a particular industry in a particular location – the possibilities are virtually endless – the choice is yours!
Use Social Media
Join our Facebook group Erasmus+ Internships (KUE) for up-to-date offers and important information about the programme!
It is also worth looking in the group: Erasmus + internships | Facebook, where employers post their offers, and students looking for internships advertise themselves!
Job portals
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resignation
What happens if you resign or discontinue your practice?
An internship may be interrupted before the minimum 60-day period has elapsed only in the case of force majeure, that is, an unforeseeable situation or exceptional event, beyond the control of the participant and not due to his/her error or negligence. Any such situation that results in the interruption of the scholarship must be reported to the SCC and a request must be made for the case to be regarded as force majeure with documentation to justify it.
In the event of the participant’s own cancellation of the internship after the signing of the agreement or return to the country before the date of completion specified in the agreement, the participant is obliged to return the whole of the grant awarded from the Erasmus+ programme (except in a situation qualified as force majeure).