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Policy Makers

This guideline provides the policy makers with specific suggestion on how to assess the impact of international and virtual internships. The guideline covers topic such as: creation of an observatory to trace the quality of work based learning approaches; promoting of international and virtual internships.
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4.2 How to Support a Traineeship System
4.2.6 How to Cooperate with International / National Organisations for Internship organization (Exchange of Students)

Policy (decision) makers also should also support international or national organisations, which was established with the aim to provide intermediary services for students, schools and companies. Supporting of such organisation brings wide benefits for regions, countries and EU in numerous areas, mainly in organisation of remoted or foreign mobility and internships:

  • Reliable, verified organisation can ensure safety of students travelling and staying e.g. far away from home and ensure safety requirements in company receiving / accepting inters. Safety for citizens is one of basic interests of every individual country.

  • Intermediary body must check companies also to be sure, that work and coaching process will provide real, suitable, appropriate experiences, in line with needs of individual interns. Consumed sources and time will be used effectively in this case.

  • Intermediary body have to develop legislative framework (agreements) for all involved parties, covering all necessary aspects of internship organisation.

  • Company also can benefit from cooperation with intermediator, using services of recruitment of interns of adequate studying specialisation and prospective additional requirements. This is also interest of country, as the part of creating adequate business environment.

Intermediator (International / National Organisations for organization of Internships) can be responsible for: keeping systems to carry out their duty of care requirements; providing orientation and counselling services for students health and safety; conducting their operations according regulatory framework including procedures for managing the school and company placements of student; ensuring that health/travel insurance has been agreed and paid and living expenses are covered for the duration of the internship; notifying all involved organisations (mainly school) when there is serious change in the nature of the internship; informing involved stakeholders if students do not come or leave the company sooner than expected; ensuring compliance with the child protection legislation; gathering data for optimising of processes e.g..

In case of good cooperation of international and national organisation, policy makers can get necessary data for future decisions and corrections or regulatory framework.


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Youth programmes and organizations
AEGEE summarizes information about partners and organizations, youth programmes and international youth organizations (as example)

Live like a local
Founded on the principles of sharing, ISEP is non-profit educational community dedicated to helping students overcome the financial and academic barriers to study abroad.

Placement organizations
Examples of organizations active in the field of placement students in internships.

Student organisations
Information about organizations run by students from various countries, usually also for students. Characteristic for these organizations is that they are non-profit organizations, and are not linked to any political party.

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