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Internship

Application & Eligibilitiy Requirements

  • Self-organized internship in a non-EU country (except Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey) which is related to your study program.
  • Internships that can be funded by one of the DAAD internship programs cannot be funded. 
  • The minimum funding period for an internship abroad is one month (1 month does not equal 4 weeks! Correct example: 01.07.2024 until 31.07.2024. Incorrect example: 01.07.2024 until 28.07.2024)
  • The maximum funding period is 6 months.
  • Longer internships can only be funded up to the maximum funding period. Internships which are shorter than the minimum funding period of six weeks cannot be funded. 
  • Students organize internships, travel, insurance, visa, accomodation etc. themselves. PROMOS does not cover costs for visa etc. which may be quite high (for example visa for the U.S.)
  • Full enrollment at the FU Berlin is required.
  • PhD students are not eligible for funding in the category of intership, preparing final thesis, study abroad and direct exchange.
  • Please also read the general PROMOS grant conditions.

Internships that are not eligible

  • Internships for which the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) provides funding are not eligible for funding. It is possible to apply for DAAD and PROMOS scholarships. In order for PROMOS funding to be granted, evidence of DAAD rejection must be provided. These include internships in: 
  • German embassies and cosulates,
  • International organizations such as the EU, UNO, NATO, Worldbank etc.,

  • Deutsche Schulen im Ausland, Goethe-Institutes, Deutsche Archäologische Institute, Institutes of the Max Weber Stiftung, selected institutions of foreign cultural policy, school internships of students who study to become teachers. 

The DAAD programs which cover these internships can be found on www.daad.de/auslandspraktikum (available only in German). Internships which can be funded through one of those programs will not be funded through PROMOS.

  • Internships in the Erasmus+ area are not eligible for PROMOS funding but might me an option  There is an option for Erasmus+ funding for internships (www.fu-berlin.de/erasmus-praktikum).
  • Erasmus+ internships may also be an option for areas outside of EU. Applications are open for both programmes, but only one of the two can be accepted.
  • Internships in Switzerland are not eligible for PROMOS funding. There is a Swiss programme for student mobility: Swiss-European Mobility Programme (SEMP)

Required Documents

This link will take you to the application portal where you will be able to complete your PROMOS application after registration.

Motivation letters should be written in German. We recommend Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to fill out the form for reasons of compatibility. Please refrain from submitting handwritten applications. Mozilla Firefox may not support the application form.

  • Transcript of Records

As transcript of academic records, you can submit the printout “Übersicht Noten und Punkte” from the Campus Management system. Alternatively, you can submit a transcript which has been signed by your faculty’s examination office. Graduate students must additionally submit their undergraduate degree certificate.

  • Certificate of Enrollment

You are required to submit a certificate of enrollment at FU Berlin.

  • Proof of Nationality

Please submit a copy of an identity card or passport.

Letters of recommendations can be completed by a lecturer/professor with the help of our form. Please note that language teachers or non-FU researchers are not accepted. The document, written in English or German, should be submitted along with the other application documents by the applicant or sent to us directly by the assessor. To fill in the form, we recommend downloading the form and only then entering the rating. If the ratings are entered first and the form is saved afterwards, they are often not transmitted.

Skills in the language the host institution uses in the work place must be proven by the applicant. The DAAD language certificates that are issued by the FU Berlin’s language center can be used for this purpose. Alternatively, you can submit a TOEFL or IELTS language test. If the language of your internship differs from the local language of the host country, please see the website with information on language certificate for further instructions.

In any case, appropriate supporting documents must be included, otherwise your application will not be considered. Language certificates should not be older than two years. Native speakers can submit their high school diploma or other proof that they have completed an academic degree in the respective language.

  • Internship contract or confirmation by the guest institution

The contract/confirmation should contain the following information:

  • name and place of the institution
  • name and date of birth of the intern
  • contact person at the institution
  • duration of the internship (dd.mm.yyyy - dd.mm.yyyy)
  • signature and stamp

A checklist with all documents can be found here. Please use it to ensure the completion of your application and attach it to your documents.

Submission of application documents

Please submit the aforementioned documents in one PDF in the order indicated in the checklist via mail: promos@campus.fu-berlin.de.

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