Internship Mobility
Erasmus Internship
Mobility represents an educational activity where a student who is enrolled in
a higher education institution performs an internship in a business abroad.
“Internship” is a beneficiary’s process of gaining working experience and/or
acquiring vocational education within an abroad organization or a business
joining the program. Internship activity cannot be used for a research
assignment in any academic study within a specific education program, or
analysis studies. Internship activity is the student’s acquiring applied work
experience in their vocational education.
The internship
activity is not expected to be compulsory for the student’s degree program.
However, the economic sector to be trained must be a sector of the student’s
current vocational training program. Studies conducted by students to complete
or support their own scientific studies are not considered scientific research
and projects as internship activities. In order to be an internship activity,
these activities need to be carried out as professional activities that are
economically viable in the related sector, not academic studies. For example,
for product development; working in research and research conducted in a
research and development (R&D) company or a company made by a company or
a company that is engaged in economic activity or a university or research
centre is evaluated within the scope of the internship activity.
The duration of the
operation is between 2 and 12 months, which is separately for each learning
stage. Internship activities can be carried out in each and every class. Graduated students cannot apply.
Institutions that will host the internship may
be businesses, training centres, research centres, and other organizations that
meet the business definition specified in the Erasmus+ Program Guide. In this
context, an appropriate enterprise means any enterprise engaged in any kind of
economic activity including private and public-owned institutions and social
economies, regardless of their size, legal status and economic sector in which
they operate.