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Who can apply to the Internship4all Consortium for Erasmus+ Student Placement/Internship/Traineeship Mobility?

Full-time students enrolled in an Intership4all Consortium Partners below at the time of application call are eligible to apply.

• Altinbaş University
• Bahçeşehir University
• Biruni University
• Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University
• Işık University
• Maltepe University

 

How will the Internship4all Consortium make a difference for students in Erasmus+ Internship Mobility?

With the support of the consortium partners, the students will be supported from the start of the application period continued until the final stage of mobility. This support will enable students to improve themselves beginning from the internship search process, as well as their ability to communicate directly with the companies. Additionally, an orientation program will be prepared with the support of all the partners, which will provide students with the highest quality of mobility and support to gain all the foreseen competencies. The inclusion of the Internship4all Consortium partners in the search process of finding an internship place for selected students aims to match the expectations of the institutions with the expectations of the students.

Internship4all Consortium partners provide only advisory services for students and do not provide any guarantees in finding an internship place.

 

Duration of Internship Mobility

Students can join their mobilities at the host institutions to do an internship from 2 (minimum) up to 12 (maximum) months.

Students, under the condition of applying before graduation, may benefit from internship mobility after graduation.
In this case, they are required to complete the mobility of internship within 12 months following their graduation.

 

What are the selection criteria?

1. To be an enrolled student (Vocational School, Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorate) in one of the Internship4all Consortium Partners.
(Students, under the condition of applying before graduation, can get internship mobility after graduation).

2. Suitability of the applications is determined by the Turkish National Agency by checking the minimum general grade average criteria.

• For Vocational / Undergraduate Students: min 2.20/4.00.
• For Graduate Students: min 2.50/4.00

3. If the beneficiary in the current learning stage (internship or study) has benefited from the activity before, then the total activity duration with the new activity should not exceed 12 months.

4. Foreign Language Exam will be carried out in accordance with the rules of the registered university.

 

Application Procedure

Applications will be taken Erasmus+ Application Portal system.

Consortium applications consist of a two-stage process;
Students have to bring their application form, transcript of records and Europass CV before the first stage application deadline, the Acceptance Letters must be submitted to the consortium representatives before the second stage application deadline.

 

Evaluation Process

Applications will be assessed according to the Erasmus+ Grade of the applicants.
The Erasmus+ Grade is based on 50% of the student’s Cumulative GPA and 50% of the Language Proficiency Exam. The Erasmus Grade influences the institution for internship and the allocation of grants for students.

Students will be sorted by their Erasmus+ Grade based on their Faculty/ Institute/ High School. The following is taken into account when determining the Erasmus+ Grade;

Children of martyrs and veterans	+15
Students with disabilities	+10
Students receiving protection under the 2828 Social Services Law	+10
Submit the acceptance letter at the first application	+10
Multiple participations (per each previous participation to the Erasmus+ program	-10
Participation in Erasmus+ Student Mobility in the citizenship country	-10
Withdrawing from the program after the given deadline for withdrawal.	-10
Non-participation despite applying for the English Proficiency Exam	-5
For selected students: Non-participation in orientations or meetings organized without any excuse (effective on the applicant’s next application)	-5

Each partner university carries out its own internal evaluation process for the English Proficiency exam. Please contact the Consortium representative of your home University.

 

Orientation Program

• An Orientation Program will be provided by the consortium Partner Universities for selected Erasmus+ Internship Students before the start of their mobility.
• Detailed information on all administrative processes will be provided to the students during the orientation program. Additionally, this program provides support through sharing best experience practices, workshop studies, and seminar sessions to improve the student’s success in internship mobility.

 

Training Agreement (Learning Agreement for Traineeship)

Students who are eligible to benefit from Erasmus+ Internship Mobility should prepare their detailed work program before the start of their training under the supervision of the Internship4all Consortium Coordinator at their home institution and the responsible person at their host institution.

Training Agreement should be prepared to cover the entire duration of the internship, as well as the work program, skills, qualifications and competencies must be specified.

Students who participate in the Erasmus+ Internship Mobility must indicate the amount of ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits that their internships will earn them in their Training Agreement. ECTS credit amounts for the Erasmus+ Internship may vary from one student to the other depending on the total work done (total working hours in the individual training program) by each student for the internship.

In Departments where there are compulsory internship periods, whether or not the Erasmus+ Internship is accepted as part of the compulsory internship is under the authority of each Department.

Additional documents may be requested from students by their Departments.

 

Grant Amount and Payment

Erasmus Disability Grant

• Additional grants are available for students with disabilities and health conditions wishing to participate in an Erasmus+ mobility and where participation would not be possible without extra financial support.
• The allowance is offered when disabilities or health conditions lead to additional mobility costs, which exceed the maximum grant allocations allowed, and which cannot be recovered from other sources. The grant covers approved actual costs.
• Applications for the Erasmus+ Disability Grant must be submitted to the Internship4all Consortium representative before the start of the mobility.
• The student’s application must include a statement from a doctor or other authority confirming the disability or health condition, its severity, the impact on the Erasmus+ mobility, additional requirements and additional costs to be met. A detailed estimate of costs is required.
• The application should provide information on any other sources of financial support that the student receives and why this is insufficient to cover extra costs.

Additional Grant Opportunity for Students with Financial Needs

This part is only applicable to students who hold Turkish citizenship:

Economically disadvantaged students who are selected for the Internship Mobility will be paid an extra grant from the internship mobility budget, in addition to the amount of monthly grant specified in the grant table.

• Students who are covered by 2828 numbered Social Services Law (an official proving document is needed)
• Students who receive an orphan’s pension (an official proving document is needed)
• Children of martyrs and veterans (official proving document is needed)
• The student or the student’s parents receive financial aid (muhtaçlık aylığı)

(To benefit from the additional grant, during the application phase, the student must submit the document indicating either the student or the student’s parents receive financial aid from municipalities, public institutions such as Ministries, Social Welfare and Solidarity Foundations, T.R. Directorate General of Foundations, Turkish Red Crescent, Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD). Information regarding the way and the period in which the document is to be submitted to Erasmus Office will be announced to the students in the program announcements and/or via e-mails by Internship4all Consortium Representative).

Green Travel Grant

With the Erasmus+ Program students are encouraged to use low-emissions means of transport for the main part of the travel, such as bus, train or car-pooling. Students who will use these means of transport will receive a single contribution of 50 € as a top-up amount to the individual support and up to 4 days of extra grant to cover travel days for a return trip, if relevant. At the end of the mobility, students are obliged to present documents (bus ticket, train ticket etc.) proving that the green travel has taken place. Zero-grant students are not eligible for green travel grants.

 

• Grants are distributed according to the partner’s quotas and selected students’ Overall Erasmus+ Grades.
• Willing students from among the selected students may benefit from the programme without receiving grants.
• Monthly Erasmus mobility grants for the following academic year are determined by the European Commission and the Turkish National Agency according to the national priorities and criteria.
• The Erasmus internship grants for each country according to their standard and cost of the living index are provided in the table below.

Country Groups	Host Countries	Monthly Grant Amounts (€)
Group 1-2 Countries	Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Sweeden, Italy, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Greece	750 €
Group 3	Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia	600 €

The Internship4all Consortium will announce the maximum grant period for students via the application call. Students’ grants are determined by the total grant amount awarded by the Turkish National Agency to the Consortium.

The grant is paid in two instalments to the student;
*The first instalment does not exceed 80% of the total grant. The payment of the first instalment is made before the departure of students.
*The second instalment payment is made at the end of the traineeship period in accordance with reconsideration and recalculation of the total grant with the delivery of a Certificate of Attendance which indicates specific beginning and ending dates of studies at the host institution and the dates of entry and exit on the passport. Students may only receive financial support for the duration they were abroad for the Erasmus+ Traineeship. Students may receive a monthly salary from the placed organization but only at the organization’s discretion.

 

After Internship Mobility

The students must submit the following documents at the end of their mobility period:

• “After the Mobility” part of the Learning Agreement for Traineeship should be completed at the end of the mobility period.
  This part includes the start and end dates of the training period, the tasks and responsibilities the trainee performed during the mobility period, the achieved competencies as a result of the traineeship and the evaluation of the receiving organization at the end of the traineeship period.
• A Certificate of Attendance, signed and stamped by the authorized person within the host institution.
• EU Survey
• Students must complete and submit an evaluation of the internship organization form which will be sent to each student by e-mail.

 

Recognition of Training

• The students will be provided with a “Certificate” by the Consortium Administration showing the start and end dates of the traineeship period.
• The student’s performed traineeship is recognized by the home institution and recorded in the Transcript of Records and/or in the Diploma Supplement.