As a UniTrento student enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral programme you have the opportunity to obtain a scholarship to spend a period of between 2 and 6 months at an institution, research body, company or other type of host organisation based outside Italy. 

For traineeships during your studies, UniTrento guarantees the recognition of educational activities undertaken during the period abroad and agreed upon before departure in the Learning Agreement for Traineeship (TA), and certified by the host organisation at the end of the mobility period in the Traineeship Certificate. 

In order to participate, you must read the "Call for selection" carefully and verify that you possess the necessary requirements, which will vary depending on your course of study and on whether it is an undergraduate or postgraduate traineeship. There are however:

• requirements to be admitted to a traineeship: the programme allows funding for traineeships with a commitment of at least 32 hours a week and which last for a minimum of 60 consecutive days, with a physical stay in the country of the host organisation;
• academic requirements: the compatibility of the traineeship with your course of study must be certified by the supervising tutor at UniTrento;
• language requirements: you must show that you have at least a B1 level (CEFR) of the language used at the host organisation, and this must be certified as instructed in the call;
• student progress requirements: when you apply to the programme you must already have earned a certain number of ECTS (academic credits) depending on your course of study and you must have a weighted grade average of at least 24/30 in Esse3.

You can do your traineeship at organisations around the world, except for San Marino and the Vatican City and for some non-European universities where you can only go for study reasons and not for traineeship. These universities are mentioned in the Call for selection in the Useful documents folder on this page. 

You must contact the organisation where you wish to do your traineeship independently and negotiate your traineeship with them as long as it respects the requirements of the programme.

All exchange programmes with Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Israel have been suspended for safety reasons. 

You can do the traineeship at universities which hold the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE), research institutes, public and private enterprises, NGOs. Institutions and UE bodies which are excluded, including the Agencies, are listed at the following Europen Union link.

To have some idea of the destinations available, consult the map of traineeships completed in the past by students from each university campus: you can create a filter for your course of study.

• Map of traineeships City campus
• Map of traineeships Povo-Mesiano campus
• Map of traineeships Rovereto campus

If you wish to look for an opportunity among the offers made to UniTrento, search in the Drive folders below: 

• List of traineeship offers from UniTrento partners - Europe
• List of traineeship offers from other entities (GDrive folder) - Europe
• List of traineeship offers from other entities (GDrive folder) - Extra Europe

When choosing the organisation for your traineeship you should consider:

• the chance to benefit from priority access to institutions which belong to the ECIU network;
• the Digital Opportunity Traineeships initiative where the EU promotes traineeships in the digital field (e.g. app development, software, scripts, websites, data analysis, digital security, cloud computing, quantistic and artificial intelligence, etc) listed here ErasmusIntern;
• offers of traineeships received from long-term partner institutions of UniTrento and other organisations or companies, and therefore subject to your evaluation. In both cases, you are invited to contact the organisation directly
• calls for applications from the MAECI-MUR-Italian University Internship Programme, which offer positions in embassies, permanent representations at international organizations, consulates, delegations and Italian Cultural Institutes-IICs;
• the JobGuidance service, they can help you finding other internship opportunities. 

You can apply anytime. The online application must be completed by the last day of each month. By the 15th day of the following month, the International Mobility Office verifies the requirements and publishes the rankings. 

You can start your traineeship 60 days after the end of the month when you applied. 

If you intend to undertake a postgraduate traineeship you must send your application when you are still a ‘student’, which means at the latest, the day before your graduation.

You will have to attach to your application:

• a motivation letter signed by your UniTrento supervisor: check their name in the "Minimum credits and UniTrento supervisor" file that you find in the Useful document folder on this page;
• an acceptance letter from the host organisation abroad.

A template of both letters is also available in the Useful documents folder on this page. 

If you have been selected, you are entitled to receive:

• a scholarship of up to 4 months if you are a university student;
• a scholarship of up to 3 months if you have graduated (post-graduate internships).

If your destination is in one of the 27 countries of the Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the amount of the scholarship varies between 500 and 550 euros per month (call 2025). If your destination is in another country, the amount is 700 euros per month. In both cases you can receive an additional 250 euros per month if you are a ‘student with fewer opportunities’. For further information visit the Inclusion page.

The participants receive a travel allowance, with a higher amount for using sustainable transport. Check the amounts on the Green travel page and choose low-emission means of transport to reach your destination.

The internship grant will be paid in one instalment within the first two months following the start of the mobility period.

If you withdraw from or interrupt the internship within the first two months, if you do not carry out the internship or if the host institution does not certify the internship by issuing the Traineeship Certificate, you will be required to return the scholarship.

If you are an international student living in an Opera Universitaria hall of residence, you will have to vacate your room at the time of departure and you may not be assigned it again upon your return.

For more information about the University of Trento's participation in the European Student Card Initiative (ESCI), please visit the dedicated page.

Download the Erasmus+ Mobile Appy before your departure.

Download the document below and follow the step-by-step instructions.

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