Enrolment in the Erasmus+ programme

Planning to go on an Erasmus+ exchange program? You can complete internships as a student or graduate. To apply you must have student status. Find out how you can receive funding and gain experience on the European labour market.

Before you apply

Key information

From April 4 to May 19, 2024 , the supplementary recruitment for the 2023 project will continue. All the information, including the grant amounts, can be found in the text below!

Below we have included all the information you should be familiar with before you start your Erasmus+ adventure.

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.

Supplementary recruitment for the 2023/2024 program will run from April 4 to May 19, 2024. Departures in this project have already begun, any qualified student or graduate will be able to leave until 31.07.2025.

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Finance

Financing the stay

The university will subsidize your trip for a maximum of 120 days ( in the 2022 project) and 360 days (in the 2023 project), regardless of the length of the internship. If your stay is shorter, your grant will be proportionally smaller for the stay’s duration calculated with a 1-day accuracy. The financing granted within the Erasmus+ programme is of supplementary character, so keep in mind that your own budget may be necessary and look for a paid internship. The amount of the grant depends on the classification of the country of destination. The grant is paid by bank transfer in Euro in two installments: 85% in advance after you have signed the agreement and the remaining 15% upon your return when your internship has been credited.

Project 2022

Group 1 – €700

The monthly stipend rate is €700 for the countries: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway.

Group 2 – €700

The monthly stipend rate is €700 for the countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, Spain.

Group 3 – 600 EUR

Monthly scholarship of 600 EUR id for countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary.

Project 2023

Group 1 – €820

The monthly stipend rate is €820 for the countries: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway.

Group 2 – €820

The monthly stipend rate is €820 for the countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, Spain.

Group 3 – EUR 750

The monthly stipend rate is €750 for Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Republic of North Macedonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey.

Additional financing for persons with disabilities or entitled to financial aid

All KUE students and graduates with disabilities and those receiving a social scholarship are entitled to additional funding for an internship in the amount of EUR 250 for each month of the originally approved stay.
Persons applying for such additional financing are requested to provide, during the enrolment, a certificate of disability for the entire period of the planned stay abroad or a statement of entitlement to financial aid.

“Green travel” allowance

Students qualified for placements can apply for a one-off allowance of 50 EUR for travel using low-emission modes of transport: bus, rail, car sharing. The condition for obtaining the allowance is to travel at least one way by the above-mentioned means of transport (50% of the total trip).

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. Your employer may be any company, institution, or organisation operating within one of the 32 countries participating in the programme on the condition that your internship programme complies 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.

excluded internship places

The only organizations excluded from internship are EU institutions and bodies listed here (http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/index_pl.htm) and institutions managing EU programmes (so that potential conflict of interest or double financing can be avoided).

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

Also, use proven search engines to find the employer for you:

Current internship offers

Check out the job offers from the companies we work with and find something for you.

Enrolment

Participant’s Profile

In order to be enrolled in the programme, you need:

  • to be of age;

  • to hold a KUE student status (at any cycle of studies: first, second or third, full time or part time);

  • to have completed no less than the first year of first cycle studies;

  • if you go as a second cycle student, you need to have completed the first semester of your master’s studies;

  • before you leave, your status at the University must be clear and you need to have completed the last semester of studies preceding to your stay;

  • during your stay, you cannot take a year off or any form of a student leave.

  • during the period of your internship, you may not participate in another foreign program implemented by UEK, or in another program financed by European Funds;

  • you may hold any citizenship. If you hold citizenship other than any of the EU or EEA member states, make sure you know the terms and conditions regarding entering the territory of the country of destination for your planned stay within the Erasmus+ programme.

Enrolment

To participate in the program, all you need to do is between April 4 and May 19, 2024:

  • 1

    Fill in an application form
    The first step is to fill in the online application form. The login information is your username and password for the university’s e-mail box. Once you’re done, be sure to take a screenshot as proof that you’ve submitted the form – this is essential for the next steps in recruitment.

  • 2

    Submit the required documents
    Please send the complete set of documents by email to praktykierasmus@uek.krakow.pl. Documents should be saved in ZIP format and hashed, please provide a password to unzip the file in the next email. Required documents:

  • CV in English;
  • grade point average for the entire period of study to date (i.e., in the case of a second degree program, the average for the first and second degrees) – taken from the dean’s office;
  • Certificate of student status taken from the dean’s office;
  • proof of foreign language proficiency (e.g., language certificate or reading course grade in the form of a screenshot from USOS);
  • consent to data processing – RODO downloaded from our website;
  • confirmation of completion of the form (screenshot).

During recruitment, we check that you meet the formal conditions for participation in the programme. It is up to you to decide whether the trip will come to fruition by finding an employer. If you have been qualified for the programme and you have found an employer, you will surely receive a grant for your internship.

Do you have questions or concerns? Attend one of the information meetings on the overseas internship program. The next one is on April 9 at 2:00 pm!

Details and registration: https://tiny.pl/c1zlr

Take part in individual consultations:

– every Wednesday from 14:00

Enrollment: https://bit.ly/3MAu6Z6

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).