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Internship

General

It is recommended to take up an internship during your programme. An internship can help you choose your career path and provides you with relevant work experience which is considered to be very important in job application rounds,

An appropriate moment to take up an internship would e.g. be in the final year of your Bachelor’s degree programme or in your Master’s degree programme. To help you choose an internship and consider the options for your career after your programme, we have made awebsitewhich presents you with all information in clear steps:

  • Self-analysis
  • Exploration internships and labour market
  • Decision-making
  • Action
  • Reflection

These steps will entice you to think about your career options and choices and help you find an internship that is suitable for you..

Faculty internship coordinator / Career Coach

Every programme has aninternship coordinator. For general questions about internships you can also contact theFaculty internship coordinator.

Internship Regulation

The Faculty has anInternship Regulationwhich holds amongst others the guidelines with regard to duration of the internship, the internship supervision, the approval of internships, secrecy, and insurances.

Approval and registration of result

All internships are extracurricular. They can however be part of your degree certificate. If you wish the internship to appear on your diploma supplement as extracurricular course unit, you need to have your internship approved by the Board of Examiners. In addition, the programme internship coordinator should approve your internship before its start. After completion of the internship, the internship will be assessed by the programme internship coordinator, based on the internship report and the assessment by the internship provider.

Formal approval

The internship coordinator of your programme needs to approve your internship before it starts. The internship needs to be formally approved. You need to meet the formal demands for the internship and final report, as arranged for in the Internship Regulation. Next to this, you need to apply for approval from the Board of Examiners.

Combination with a paper

An internship and a paper cannot be dealing with the same topic. This also goes for two internships and two papers when taken in two different programmes. Within a programme, an activity can only lead to the award of ECTS once.

Internships inGradleaders Career Center

The internships which are offered to the Faculty are offered inGradleaders Career Center. This information can be found on theStudent Portal. Please click the tab ‘Career’.

Gradleaders Career Center

The tab 'Career' in the Student Portal offers you an overview of some of the career events and vacancies that can be interesting for you and are offered via the Faculty. In order to allow you to properly search the complete list, we advise you to login to the underlying system in which all this information is stored. You can do so by clicking ‘Student Login’. You can find interesting career events and career activities, job offers, internships, (free) workshops in the field of personal development, networking and the writing of a good CV and cover letter.

GoingGlobal

You will find internships in the Netherlands and abroad in the tab Career on the Student Portal under the headingGoingGlobal.

Last update: 21-7-2023

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