Traineeship arboad

One of the best ways how to gain practical knowledge, professional work experience and put yourself to the test during your studies is to do traineeship abroad.

In order UT could recognize your traineeship and you could collect all the necessary credit points, please see the requirements, and the documents that must be submitted before and after your traineeship.

Finding the traineeship place

It is highly recommended to speak first with your programme director or supervisor of your Institute, most likely they have contacts and partners in other universities, laboratories or projects.
There are also organisations who are mediating internship offers, one of them is AIESEC. We also recommend internship portal called ERASMUSINTERN, which has traineeship offers from all over the world. Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF) offers traineeship to the United States.

University of Tartu is announcing internship abroad offers in Futulab page.

Erasmus+ traineeship grant

The best way to finance your traineeship in Europe is to apply for the Erasmus+ traineeship grant. Traineeship planned to be carried out within the Erasmus programme can be done under any kind of traineeship course or as recent graduate traineeship. You can read more information and details from Erasmus+ traineeship website.

Paperwork: training agreement

Before going abroad for the traineeship it is necessary to apply for the recognition of the traineeship abroad through study and traineeship plan (specifying the content of the traineeship) and prepare Training Agreement (trilateral agreement which explains activities, evaluation and monitoring plan of the traineeship in addition to the rights and obligations that the three parties have agreed).

All details and forms can be found from the page (please see the part Training Agreement): How to complete Learning Agreement

Insurance for the traineeship

It is advisable that all traineeship students have the accident and liability insurance because not all receiving organisations are providing this type of insurance to their trainees. You can choose yourself the most suitable insurance, but here are some packages by EduCare World, Crystal Studies and EduCare24.

After the traineeship

• Submit the transcript of records, traineeship certificate, evaluation sheets from the supervisor in host institution or traineeship report to your academic unit.
• Supervisor notes the result to the traineeship plan and signs it.
• The ECTS will be transferred by the institute or college ( PhD students who are doing the traineeship abroad within their PhD thesis will not have ECTS transferred but mentioned at the attestation).

Please note that students doing their traineeship abroad with Erasmus+ grant need to submit the copy of the traineeship certificate also to the Traineeship Coordinator at Study Abroad Centre.