The application deadline to apply for an Erasmus grant for traineeships in the spring semester 2025 is extended until December 10, 2024 at 12.00 PM.
When you apply, you must submit an Erasmus+ Learning agreement for Traineeships. Your Learning agreement must be filled in and signed by all concerned.
Now more than ever, it is important to have relevant experience on your CV in order to secure a job once you graduate. A traineeship abroad offers you a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting workplace and provides you with valuable experience and an international network. In addition to plus points on your CV, it allows you test your career expectations and to find out which skills you already have and which you still need to acquire.
It is your own responsibility to find a traineeship. You can ask your lecturer or student counsellor for advice on choosing a traineeship suitable for you. This website is primarily aimed at students doing a traineeship in the European Union, because this allows you to apply for an Erasmus+ traineeship grant.
You can apply for an Erasmus+ traineeship grant if you have secured a traineeship in one of the countries participating in the Erasmus+ programme. See a list of the Erasmus+ countries on the right.
Greenland and the Faroe Islands are not regarded as foreign countries for AU students in an Erasmus+ context, and it is therefore not possible to apply for an Erasmus+ grant to study or conduct a traineeship in Denmark, Greenland or the Faroe Islands.
Your traineeship can take place in:
Erasmus+ traineeship grants are not awarded for work placements in EU institutions or organisations that administer EU programmes.
Return to home applicants are not eligible - if the traineeship is located in the country of your nationality, you are not eligible for the Erasmus+ Traineeship grant.
Applicants receiving a monthly contribution for expenses will be given a lower priority if there is a shortage of grant funds.
Applicants who has received a an Erasmus grant earlier, will be given lower priority if there is a shortage of grant funds.
Recent graduates who just finished a Master's Degree are not eligible for the grant.
PhD students at Aarhus University cannot apply for an Erasmus+ Traineeship grant.
In case a chioce has to be made between applicants, with the same prerequisites, this is done randomly.
If your work language is not your native language, you will be asked to undertake an online language assessment test.
The test is not mandatory, but we recommend you do it. The results of the test will have no impact on your eligibility for the Erasmus+ grant.
The test will be in your primary work language during the traineeship.
When you do a traineeship abroad with an Erasmus + grant, it is your responsibility to make sure you take out the necessary insurance. You can read more about the best way to do this below.
Make sure you have a blue EU health insurance card. They are free and can be ordered on www.borger.dk. where you can also find information about what the EU health insurance card covers in the country you are travelling to.
Because the EU health insurance card doesn’t always cover all illness-related expenses, and because it doesn’t offer travel insurance, we recommend that you take out travel and health insurance to cover the entire period of your traineeship. We also recommend that this insurance includes accident and liability insurance. Accident insurance covers you if you are injured, and liability insurance covers you if you injure another person or cause damage to an item that belongs to someone else.
The traineeship host organisation usually has accident and liability insurance that covers its employees, and we recommend that you request to be covered by this policy as an intern. If this is possible, the traineeship institution must document this by confirming you are covered in section C in your Learning Agreement. They must also sign this section of the Learning Agreement.
If it is not possible for you to be covered by the host organisation’s accident and liability insurance, you must take out the necessary insurance privately.
Please note that it is not possible to be covered by Aarhus University.
The Erasmus+ traineeship grant is approximately EUR 700 per month.
Exception: You are allowed to receive salary if your project placement is in a country, where internships by law need to be paid (for example Germany). You cannot receive SU at the same time though.
Applicants receiving a monthly contribution for expenses will be given a lower priority if there is a shortage of grant funds.
Read more about the rules for SU and salaries during work placements abroad.
Note that there is no guarantee that you will receive Erasmus+ grant even though you meet all the requirements.
It is mandatory that you fill in and submit an Erasmus+ Learning agreement for Traineeships
You must submit your Learning agreement when you apply for the Erasmus+ Traineeship grant. The Learning agreement must be completely filled in and signed (by hand) by: you, Aarhus University and your traineeship host.
If it is not possible to get all signatures in place on your Learning agreement within the application deadline, e.g. if you are going to do a traineeship at an embassy and are awaiting a security clearance before your traineeship host can sign the Learning agreement, please contact us at erasmus@au.dk
Who at Aarhus University can sign your Learning agreement?
It is your department at Aarhus University that must sign your Learning Agreement. It can either be an academic/internship supervisor, if that person can approve of the content of the traineeship and the number of ECTS that appears in the Learning Agreement, or one in a study centre. The person signing must be able to confirm that you are allowed to do a traineeship as part of your studies, that the content of the traineeship has been approved and that the number of ECTS in your Learning Agreement is correct.
It is a requirement that you submit a Learning Agreement to be eligible for an Erasmus+ grant.
You submit your Learning agreement when applying for the Erasmus+ grant. It must be fill in and signed by all concerned - you can read about the Learning agreement under Erasmus+ Learning agreement for Traineeships, in the above section.
You apply for the grant at the Erasmus+ Portal for Traineeships
When you have applied you will receive a confirmation from the International Centre.
If your application is successful, you will receive an Erasmus+ grant agreement for traineeships by email. The agreement must be signed and submitted before the grant can be disbursed.
Please note that the International Centre does not communicate with your host organisation. Remember to inform the Danish students' Grants and Loans Scheme (SU) Office about your traineeship.
In the event of any significant changes to the length of your traineeship, the nature of your tasks, or the affiliation to your supervisor, please complete the section “During the Mobility” in the Learning Agreement for Traineeships.
When your traineeship ends, you must:
If you have any questions, please contact us in one of the following ways.
E-mail: erasmus@au.dk
Phone: +45 22455174
The Erasmus+ programme offers a top-up grant to students with physical or mental disabilities. You can request a fewer opportunities top-up grant when applying for the Erasmus+ grant.
Travelling sustainably
As part of The Green Transition, Erasmus+ has now made it possible to gain economic value, by travelling sustainably.
Apart from the monthly amount obtained by the grant, there will now be a travel subsidy. The size of the travel subsidy is based on the distance between AU and your traineeship host, and whether or not you are travelling sustainably.
What is considered sustaibable ways of travelling?
Train
Bus
Carpool
What is not considered sustainable ways of travelling?
Accomodations
What is Eramus+ Inclusion support?
The Erasmus+ office has the opportunity to apply for extra funding through the Erasmus+ programme for students with special needs in the form of physical or mental disability.
What are the guidelines for applying for the grant?
The Danish support schemes are well developed, such as Specialpædagogisk Støtte (SPS) or help under the Social Services Act, and there are good opportunities to take that support abroad.
The guideline for obtaining additional grants from the Erasmus+ programme is that grants can only be obtained to cover needs for which support is provided in accordance with Danish rules, and where the support is not possible to take abroad. Under certain circumstances, grants may be awarded to persons with physical or mental disabilities, even if they do not receive grants from SPS or the Social Services Act, provided that the person's disability after a specific and individual assessment makes the support necessary to complete a stay abroad under the Erasmus + programme. It is possible in special cases to obtain supplementary subsidy in relation to the support that can be taken abroad from Denmark if there are increased expenses in connection with a stay abroad.
Examples of increased expenses related to special needs:
special transport
adapted accommodation
assistance during lectures or at home
medical follow-up
The amount of the grant will vary depending on the needs and will be based on actual cost. The student will need to make a budget with planned expenses. After ended stay abroad the expenses will need to be documented by receipts.
Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland, Croatia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany, Hungary and Austria.
Greenland and the Faroe Islands are not regarded as foreign countries for AU students, so you cannot receive Erasmus+ funds to study or conduct a traineeship abroad in Greenland or the Faroe Islands.