Foreign Traineeship Scholarships
Call for application

• You must pursue your studies aimed at obtaining a diploma at BUEB and must have an active student status during your entire mobility period (except in the case of a traineeship for recent graduates) and at the time of signing your Grant Agreement
• You must have completed at least one semester at the time of submitting the application, with the exception of students participating in master’s, FOSZK, PhD and doctoral programmes.
• You must meet the formal requirements of the application. The ranking is based on the aggregate adjusted credit index, as well as scientific and public activity. In the event of a score match, we may request additional documents.
• You must have at least B2 language skills in the language you will work in, or you must be participating in BUEB’s foreign language programme. If you do not have a language exam, a certificate issued by a language school or the Foreign Language Institute of BUEB is also acceptable.
• In one training cycle, the total mobility period (student and traineeship combined) can be a maximum of 12 months.
• This opportunity is not available for students participating in the BUEB Stipendium Hungaricum programme.
• Before starting the traineeship abroad, you must fill out and submit a written study contract (Learning Agreement for Traineeships), which is a prerequisite for creating your Grant Agreement. This will need to be completed and signed by you and your host company after the application has been awarded.
• Your mobility activity must fit into your training plan and must be related to your current studies.
• At the end of the mobility period, your foreign host company must issue a certificate of the completed traineeship, as well as the results/an evaluation („After the Mobility” section of your Learning Agreement and Certificate of Traineeship Period).
• You must work at least 30 working hours/week at the host company.
• Your internship must be a minimum of 60 days (2 months) in length at the host company.
• You must have adequate health-, accident- and liability insurance for the duration of the traineeship. (All three are necessary, unless your host company provides them or states in writing that they do not need liability insurance.)
• You are entitled to an academic scholarship or other loan disbursement received at BUEB during the period spent abroad as well.

The traineeship application can be submitted via BUEB’s online application portal.

The implementation period of the planned traineeship will be announced later this year.

(But if you can arrange your internship and would like to start it prior to that, that is also possible.)

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION:

• Before the Mobility section of the Learning Agreement for Traineeships (A scanned version signed by both the applicant and the host company)
• Proof of relevant language skills, minimum B2 level
• A motivation letter (where you specify why you would like to complete your traineeship at this company, what do you expect from the traineeship, what skills you would like to learn, what you would like to implement from your studies, etc.)

THE APPLICATION CONDITIONS:

• cumulative adjusted credit index of at least 3.00
• or if you will complete your compulsory traineeship abroad, then you must coordinate and agree with the Office for Academic Support regarding the host company

You can apply for a traineeship at any company or organization operating in any country that is willing to provide you with the appropriate support and mentoring. (Exceptions are EU institutions and EU bodies, as well as agencies and national offices coordinating EU programmes.) Students are free to choose the host company where they will complete their traineeship.

It is the applicant’s responsibility to study the profile of the partner, coordinate the employment conditions of the given host country with the host company and handle the necessary administration, as well as acquire any necessary visas (if relevant). Get as much information as possible about the company, negotiate with them about the conditions and possible benefits. See what can they do to help you organize the mobility, e.g. the employment conditions, visa administration, accommodation.

It is imperative that you only travel with a valid health-, accident- and liability insurance. We require all three.

• You can find the companies where BUEB students previously completed their compulsory traineeship on the Online Career Platform.
  If you log into the Online Career Platform system (Neptune code and password are required), you must select the “Partners for internship” menu item from the “Internship” menu. After that, you can see with which companies the University has entered into a cooperation agreement regarding traineeships. Based on the provided contact information, you can contact the company and inquire whether they currently have an open internship position.
• These are suggested partners for voluntary traineeships.
• Agencies: it is worth considering that you travel through an agency specialized in traineeship programmes, which would greatly facilitate the search for the host company and the administration/local administration. IN THIS LIST you will find some active agencies/brokerage companies.

You can calculate the approximate amount of your grant in advance. The scholarship is a contribution to the implementation of your mobility plan but it does not necessarily cover all your costs. Before you embark on this journey, create a budget plan. The amount depends on the length of time spent abroad. It is a lump sum, so there is no itemized settlement but you must prove the completion of the mobility according to your grant agreement. After signing the grant agreement, you will receive the scholarship in a lump sum, in Hungarian Forints.

Subsidy Rate: (foreseeable) 240 000 HUF/month regardless of the destination country

The destination countries of mobilities are to be categorized according to the following country groups:

• Country group #1: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, United Kingdom, North Macedonia, Estonia, Finland, Faroe Islands, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Croatia, Iceland, Ireland, Poland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Germany, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Türkiye, Vatican City State/the Holy See
• Country group #2: countries not belonging to country group #1

You may also apply for travel support in the case of mobility to group #2 countries.

We would like to draw the attention of our applicants that the grant is only expected to be disbursed after Tempus Public Foundation has disbursed it to our university.

Equal Opportunity Support

• The equal opportunity support is an extension of the previous social support, according to new criteria.
  In case of study mobility and traineeship mobility, you can receive an additional scholarship of 100 000 HUF/month in addition to the basic scholarship.
• Documents to be submitted:
  – Application data sheet in an Excel format
  – Application data sheet manually signed and then scanned
  – Documents supporting eligibility in a signed, scanned format. The necessary, relevant forms are available on the “Declarations” tab of the application data sheet above.
• Detailed call for applications

In case of a winning mobility application, you will have to simultaneously submit the application on the same interface as the one where you submit the documents required for creating and signing the mobility contract.

If you need more information and didn’t find an answer on this page, you can send an email to mobility@uni-bge-hu