Erasmus+ Traineeships

In the case of student mobility for traineeships, the receiving organisation can be:

• any public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth, research and innovation;
• a public or private, a small, medium or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
• a public body at local, regional or national level;
• embassies or consular offices of the sending EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme;
• a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, craft/professional associations and trade unions;
• a research institute;
• a foundation;
• a school/institute/educational centre (at any level, from pre-school to upper secondary education, and including vocational education and adult education);
• a non-profit organisation, association, NGO;
• a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information services; 
• a HEI from an EU Member State associated to the Programme awarded with an ECHE.

The following types of organisations are not eligible as receiving organisations for student mobility for traineeships: 

• EU institutions and other EU bodies including specialised agencies (their exhaustive list is available on this website - click);
• organisations managing EU programmes such as Erasmus+ National Agencies (in order to avoid a possible conflict of interests and/or double funding).

Students are to carry out their traineeship in a country different from the country of the sending organisation and the country where the students have their accommodation during their studies.

Eligible duration of traineeship(s) under the Erasmus + programme is between 2 months (i.e. 60 days) and 12 months, in each study cycle.