Internships/Placements

 

Internships/training

 

• International Alliance of Research Universities - Global Internship Program
• Farm Practice Internship program in the Loire region, France 2012
• Student internship at South Dakota University, USA 2012 

Erasmus Placement & Relevant Websites:

 

About projects in practice:

http://www.life.ku.dk/English/education/for_students/teaching/Project_in_practice.aspx

 

About Erasmus placement and the application procedure at the University of Copenhagen:

http://udrejse.ku.dk/Udveksling_Feltarbejde_og_Praktik/Erasmus-praktik/ (ONLY IN DANISH.)

 

See the EU commission website about the Erasmus Placement.

 

General information

• Students must find their own internship placement.

• There is no specific deadline, but applications will be treated on a first come, first served basis until the amount available for grants has run out.

• Internships can be credit transferred as a project in practice only, so only Msc students on certain study programmes are able to do an Erasmus internship. See more information about Project in Practice. 

Who can benefit from the internship?

• Full degree students enrolled full time at the University of Copenhagen who have completed their first year of their studies at the master’s level.

Where can you go?

• Private and public institutions, research centres, other institutions and organisations in the 31 member countries of the Life Long Learning Programme.
• It is not possible to do an internship in EU institutions or other institutions that coordinate programmes financed by the EU.
• It is not possible to do an Erasmus internship at embassies/other national representative offices.

Other criteria

• The internship must be between 3 and 12 months
• The internship must be within the academic year
• The internship must be eligible for credit transfer
• The internship must be on a full-time basis, e.g. 15 ECTS over 3 months. The work must be full time (37 hours/week) in one block or part time (18.5 hours/week) in two consecutive blocks.

Where to get help?

 

Student Services

• Student Services can direct you to places where you can get inspiration to where you can do an internship. However please notice that Student Services cannot help students find internships, this must be done by the students themselves!
• Student Services can also provide guidance on when you can do an internship depending on your study programme.

Secretariat for Internationalisation

• Provides help and guidance concerning the application procedure.
• Must sign your training agreement and quality commitment as the departmental Erasmus coordinator.

 

Application procedure

• Find an internship

• Look at KU’s jobbank:
• Look at abstracts from reports of projects in practice done by other students.
• Look at travel reports at Students Services.

• Follow the procedure for projects in practice

• Apply for the Erasmus placement grant
• The Central International Office administers the Erasmus placement grant.
• The following documents must be sent to Marianne Stig ()
• Application (unfortunately only in Danish, but stop by the Secretariat for Internationalisation and we will help you fill it out).
• The pre-authorization form
• The pre-authorisation form is the one you fill out in connection with your project in practice.
• Training agreement and quality commitment
• The training agreement and quality commitment needs to be signed by the Secretariat for Internationalisation. Please hand it in along (by email, post or in person) with you pre-authorisation form. The Secretariat for Internationalisation cannot sign your training agreement and quality commitment unless you have a signed pre-authorisation form.
• Read about the application, training agreement and quality commitment. (ONLY IN DANISH)
• Your application will be processed and you will be notified through your KUnet email account. So please remember to check your KUnet email account regularly!
• If your application gets accepted, you will receive a grant letter on your KUnet email account along with a payment form and the Erasmus Charter Contract.
• The payment form and the Erasmus Charter Contract must be filled in and signed and then sent to .
• After your internship you must send a Certification of Participation, travel report and a list of expenses to
• Failure to do so may mean that you will be required to pay back your grant.

 

After your internship

 

• An abstract in English needs to be sent to . This abstract will be available for other students to read (see the list of abstracts).
• To ensure that you include all relevant information in your abstract, we recommend that you use our template for abstracts.