No, as an Erasmus+ trainee you must not be enrolled at the university, even if you are doing your (research) placement there.

In principle, writing a thesis abroad is not eligible for Erasmus+ funding. However, the preparation or research phase can be funded as an internship. The research results obtained can then be used for the final thesis.

No. In contrast to the Erasmus+ Europe Programme, unfortunately no graduate internships can be funded in the worldwide programme. Funding is only available for students and doctoral candidates at the FU. 

If the application deadline of two months before the start of the internship has already passed and you are already preparing your application documents, please contact us. Then, depending on the status of the application documents, we can decide individually whether we can still provide funding.

No, please enter two different persons as mentor or supervisor. On the one hand, this should be your main contact person during the internship. The second person can also be someone from the administration/human resources department.

Yes, it is advisable to inform yourself about the topic of international insurance while preparing your application documents. For your internship, you need health, accident and liability insurance for abroad. If you are insured by your host organisation during your stay, please ask what exactly the insurance covers. Often, the insurances only cover you at your workplace and on your way to work, but not during your free time. In the case of remunerated internships in other EU countries, you may have to be covered by local health insurance abroad. Get detailed advice from your health insurance provider. After you have applied for a scholarship, we need the insurance declaration, which we will send to you promptly.

In the Monitoring Plan field, you should enter the extent to which you will be supervised at the internship institution (e.g. through weekly meetings or feedback rounds). The Evaluation Plan field should indicate what the final evaluation at the end of your internship will consist of (e.g. in the form of a final interview, a presentation or a report).

If your planned project is a compulsory internship, it is best to contact the internship officer in your department. He/she will confirm that the internship abroad will be credited to you at a later date. If it is a voluntary internship, you can contact a professor in your department with whom you have already attended a course, for example, regarding the learning agreement and the signature. This is to confirm that the content of the internship is related to your studies.

If you have the possibility to extend the internship period, you can fill in the Learning Agreement during the mobility and have it signed again by all parties. Only what really changes should be entered here. Submit this document together with the updated insurance declaration one month before the original end of the internship. We will then check whether the extended period can be funded. This depends on the funds available and your remaining Erasmus+ quota.

If you would like to complete the internship abroad earlier than agreed in the Learning Agreement, please let us know in good time. In this case, the Learning Agreement during the mobility does not need to be completed. A shortening is possible, provided that the minimum period of 2 months (60 days) is fulfilled. Otherwise, the funding must be paid back on a pro-rata basis.

Please submit your final documents by email within one month after the end of your internship. Please also send us your proof of travel (e.g. the boarding pass of your return flight to Germany). Only when all documents are complete and correct can the second funding instalment be paid out.

As part of your graduation documents, you must submit an internship report. Here you have the opportunity to share your experience with other students. We will gladly publish your report in anonymised form on our blog, where all interested parties can get inspiration. Therefore, we welcome detailed reports incl. photos (ideally city or landscape shots without faces).