The Erasmus+ Traineeship Programme

To apply for the Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant, you must meet the following requirements:

• General information: Erasmus+ contingent
  • Students have an Erasmus+ contingent of 12 months per study cycle (Bachelor, Master, PhD) available for both study and internships abroad.
  • For state‑examination (Staatsexamen) degree programmes, students have 24 months of Erasmus+ contingent available for studies and internships.
  • The Erasmus+ contingent can be used flexibly within the limits (e.g. respecting minimum and maximum duration rules) and can be allocated across several successive stays abroad.
• Internship is during your studies
  • Internship or dissertation / final project in another European country
  • No residence in the internship country
  • You are registered at LMU (up to and including doctoral studies)
• Internship is planned for after your degree program (Graduate Internships)
  • Internship in another European country
  • No residence in the internship country
  • Internship period is within one year after your graduation
  • You are registered at LMU (up to and including doctoral studies) at the time of your application
  • Exmatriculation has occured before you start your internship
  • You have sufficient Erasmus+ contingent from the just‑completed study cycle left

• Member States of the European Union:
  Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden
• Program countries outside the EU:
  Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye

• Full-time internships of 30 hours or more per week or 12 hours of instruction per week for teaching internships
• Voluntary and mandatory internships
• Types of internships: regular internships, research internships, practical final dissertation or semester-project internships, mandatory internships, voluntary internships or graduate internships
• Paid and unpaid internships
• Relevant to your degree program
• Internship duration of at least two full months. Please check the length of your internship. If it is shorter than 60 days (53 - 59 days), you can apply for the Career Services Scholarship.

Internships in EU institutions as well as institutions managing EU programs are excluded from Erasmus+ funding. You can see which institutions this applies to on the EU website. These internships can be funded by a separate DAAD program.

Internships in the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland) cannot be funded through a scholarship via Erasmus+. Instead, internships there can now be supported through the PROMOS scholarship.
Internships in Switzerland cannot be funded through Erasmus+. Some Swiss universities offer funding for self-organized research internships through the Swiss-European Mobility Program (SEMP), but LMU is not involved in this process. Please inquire directly with the host university regarding this. An alternative funding option is the PROSA scholarship.

The scholarship rate for the Erasmus+ mobility is calculated according to your chosen country and the duration of your stay:

• Funding Group 1
• Funding of 750 €/month (daily rate of 25 €)
• Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
• Funding Group 2
• Funding of 690 €/month (daily rate of 23 €)
• Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey

You got accepted for your dream internship? Great!

Please email the following information to LMU Career Services to start your scholarship application:

• Exact date of the beginning of your internship (e.g. Monday, the...)
• Exact date of the end of your internship (e.g. Friday, the...)
• Location of your internship
• Country of your internship
• Your faculty at LMU (number and name)
• Have you already participated in the Erasmus+ Programme (study exchange / internship)? Yes/No; if yes, how many months have you already received funding for?
• Internship type: mandatory internship, voluntary internship, or graduate internship
• Name of your internship institution
• Grant: Erasmus+

After this, you'll receive a link to the application portal from us.

Without these basic details we can't process your application!

Application deadline: latest four weeks before the start of your internship!

International internships in the French overseas territories will be funded exclusively for two months (equivalent to 60 Erasmus+ days). The stays themselves can be longer. The Erasmus+ application relates to the duration of the scholarship.

Pay attention to the two additional funding options, presented underneath the Scholarship Process:
Funding for Green Travel
Funding for the Support of Equal Opportunities for first-time academics, students with disabilities or chronic illness, students with child(ren) or working students.

Please apply through the MoveON portal. Please select the online form „Application Scholarships for International Internships“ in the portal.

The following documents must be uploaded to apply for the Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant:

Mandatory documents:

• A signed Learning Agreement for Traineeships:
  • Please use the guide to help fill in the forms:
    Guide Learning Agreement (PDF, 612 KB)
  • Learning Agreement for Traineeships (DOCX, 53 KB)
  • Internships that start until the end of September 2026 fall into the Academic Year 2025/26 (see head of Learning Agreement and online application form)
  • Internships that start on or after Oct. 1st, 2026 fall into the Academic Year 2026/27.
  • Please note: the Learning Agreement has to be signed by all three parties (student, LMU Faculty/Career Service, internship institution) when submitting your application. In addition to conventional wet signatures, we also accept digital signatures, provided that the handwriting of the respective person is recognizable. Documents can therefore be signed on a tablet, for example.
• Letter of motivation (1 - 2 pages), including reasons for choosing the internship institution and the activity, explanation of the subject matter, professional motivation, need for a scholarship for the stay
• Resume
• Registration certificate
• Declaration of Insurance Cover (PDF, 52 KB), see “Further information” below

• Green Travel Declaration (DOCX, 68 KB), see “Further information” below for the funding regulations. The top-up is calculated by the distance between Munich and your internship institution.
• Equal Opportunities Declaration (PDF, 118 KB), see "Further information" below for the funding regulations. The grant for the support of equal opportunities contains 250 € per month in addition to your funding. This additional funding is available for students and graduates of the following groups:
  • first-time academics
  • students with disabilites
  • students with child/ren
  • students with chronic illness
  • working students and graduates
• Further information can be found under "Additional grant for the support of equal opportunities"

Please note: The Learning Agreement for Traineeships must be signed by all three parties (student, faculty/LMU Career Services, host organization) when you submit your application.

Traveling allowance

For Erasmus+-internships, all scholarship holders will additionally receive an automatic traveling allowance and, if applicable, travel days.
The number of eligible travel days depends on the distance to your host institution and is calculated using the EU Erasmus+ Distance Calculator.
To ensure equal treatment, the distance to the destination is calculated from Munich, even if you are traveling from a different location.
The following table provides an overview of the traveling allowance based on distance:

• 10 to 99 km: 28 € (e.g. Innsbruck)
• 100 to 499 km: 211 € (e.g. Vienna, Milan, Prague, Strasbourg, Ljubljana)
• 500 to 1.999 km: 309 € (e.g. Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Stockholm, Lisbon)
• 2.000 to 2999 km: 395 € (e.g. Oulu and Funchal)
• 3.000 to 3.999 km: 580 €
• 4.000 to 7.999 km: 1.188 € + 2 travel days (e.g. Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Pierre Cedex, Fort de France)
• ≥8.000 km: 1.735 € + 2 travel days

The traveling allowance is higher if you travel eco-friendly and apply for the Green Travel additional funding. The conditions for this and the increased travel allowances can be found below under "Optional Additional Funding for Green Travel (internships starting in 2026)”.

• Scholarships are awarded in the order in which we receive complete applications via MoveON. The decisive point here is the submission of your complete application via MoveON, not the basic details that you send via e-mail.
• Please check your application thoroughly before submitting it. If we find any discrepancies upon reviewing it, you will have the opportunity to correct your information after your application is reactivated by us.
• Scholarship applications will be rejected if they do not meet the criteria listed on this website or if we no longer have funding available.

• Grant Agreement: This document will be sent to you by email. It must be signed and then sent back to LMU Career Service via email. You can sign the Grant Agreement digitally as long as your handwriting is recognisable.
• OLS language test: An invitation to the language test will be sent to you. On the OLS platform, you can also take free, tutored online language courses. Please note: Native speakers of the working language don't need to take this test.
• Graduate internships: Submit your exmatriculation certificate as soon as you receive it.

After that, you'll receive the first grant installment.

If your internship is extended by more than five days, you must request for this extension by submitting the Learning Agreement for Traineeship - Changes. This must be scanned in and submitted by mail to LMU Career Service at least one month before you originally planned on ending the internship.

• Learning Agreement for Traineeships - Changes (DOCX, 51 KB)

Traineeship Certificate (DOCX, 66 KB): completed and signed by your internship employer.

Please note:

• We don't accept pre-dated documents! The first possible day of signing is the last day of the internship.
• Besides a common wet signature, we do also accept digital signatures as long as the handwriting of the person is visible. E.g. a signature via a tablet is acceptable.

• Physical mobility/period is only to be filled in if your internship consisted of a virtual and a physical component (blended mobility).

• Internship report (DOC, 143 KB), which - upon your approval - we will anonymise and upload to our website containing personal stories and institutions.
• Your registration certificate — if the confirmation submitted with your application doesn't cover the entire period of your internship.
• EU Survey: The DAAD is working on a new platform for the new project, the Beneficiary Module. At the moment you do not have to fill out a questionnaire. However, if you are asked to fill out a questionnaire or report in the Beneficiary Module at a later date, we will contact you again here
  
• Career tip: Your internship provider can issue an accredited reference for you. This reference looks great in future applications!

Please upload all final documents in one go to the MoveON portal no later than 30 days after ending your internship. You have already received the link to this portal with your application.

Definition of Green Travel: For the majority of the travel distance (more than 50%, including both the journey there and back), low-emission means of transport such as train or bus are used.

Students who travel eco-friendly in accordance with the Green Travel guidelines of the Erasmus+ program receive an increased travel allowance and can apply for funding of additional travel days:

• 10 to 99 km: 56 € (e.g. Innsbruck)
• 100 to 499 km: 285 € + 2 travel days (e.g. Vienna, Milan, Prague, Strasbourg, Ljubljana)
• 500 to 1.999 km: 417 € + 4 travel days (e.g. Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Stockholm, Lisbon)
• 2.000 to 2.999 km: 535 € + 6 travel days (e.g. Oulu)
• 3.000 to 3.999 km: 785 € + 6 travel days
• 4.000 to 7.999 km: 1.188 € + 6 travel days (e.g. Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Pierre Cedex, Fort de France)
• ≥8,000 km: 1.735 € + 6 travel days

To apply, please submit this "Declaration of Honor for Green Travel" (PDF, 101 KB) with your application via our application portal MoveON.

The distance is calculated based on the Erasmus+ Distance Calculator. The distance to be entered is for the one-way trip. For reasons of equal treatment, the distance is always calculated from Munich to the internship location, even if you start your journey from another place.

The funding for the Support of Equal Opportunities contains 250€ per month in addition to your regular funding amount (see Erasmus+ Countries above). You only apply for one of the following student groups:

• First-time academics
• Students with disabilities or a chronic illness
• Students with child(ren)
• Working students

Submit this Honorary Declaration (PDF, 104 KB) for your request of additional Funding for the Support of Equal Opportunities within your Erasmus+ Application on MoveON. In addition to this document, each applicant has to proof the eligibility via the following validation and add the necessary document(s) to the Honary Declaration:

• First-time academics (students and graduates from a non-academic household)
  • Top-up is for undergraduate and graduate students whose parents or caregivers do not have an academic degree from an institution of higher education.
  • Proof is to be provided by submitting this filled and signed document (PDF, 68 KB), in addition to the Honorary Declaration above.

• Students with disabilities:
  • Top-up is available from a degree of disability of 30 for UK and from a degree of disability of 20 for all other Erasmus+ countries.
  • Proof is provided by submitting the severely disabled person's ID card, the notice from the state social welfare office or a medical certificate.
• Students with chronic illness:
  • Please provide proof of your chronic illness in the form of a medical certificate.
  • The certificate must indicate that you are incurring additional costs due to your illness.

• Students with child(ren):
  • Please let us know if you have a child or children and are travelling with them.
  • Proof is provided by submitting the child(ren)'s birth certificate and travel documents.

• Working students and graduates
  • The top-up is for employed students and graduates who have to suspend their employment during the Erasmus internship or have to terminate their employment for the stay abroad.
  • The employment must have been active for at least six months prior to the date of application for the Erasmus Internship Grant. In this regard, please note the application deadline of 4 weeks before the start of the internship.
  • During the minimum period of employment, the monthly salary must be above 450,00€ and below 850,00€. In case of several activities, the net earnings of all activities per month are added up.
  • It must be an employment subject to social security contributions.
  • Activities that are performed in self-employment are excluded.
  • The employment may not be continued during the Erasmus internship, but must be paused or terminated.
  • Proof must be provided by the corresponding salary slips and a declaration on honor regarding the pause or termination.

You have to provide the following three insurances for your stay abroad:

• Accident Insurance

• Liability Insurance

• Health Insurance

Check with your current insurance whether certain services are already included or can be increased for the period of your internship.
In addition, the DAAD offers its own insurance packages: Link to the DAAD insurance packages, see Tarif 720. As proof of your internship you can hand in your Learning Agreement, signed by all parties.

• Per study cycle (bachelor, master, doctoral studies), students can make use of a maximum of 12 months of Erasmus+ funding. These months can be divided into several study and internship periods. Exception: teacher education/medicine/law students can make use of a maximum of 24 months of Erasmus+ funding
• Since a graduate internship is formally part of your previous study cycle, you must have at least two Erasmus+ months left over from your previous study cycle to apply and be eligible for funding.

The linked homepages provide you with information on the respective provisions relating to entry and stay regulations in non-EU program countries within Erasmus+:

• Iceland: Link "Studium und Arbeit in Island", Government of Iceland
• Liechtenstein: Link "Visum", Landesverwaltung Fürstentum Liechtenstein
• North Macedonia: Link "Foreign Citizens", Republic of North Macedonia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  
• Norway: Link "Visitors visa and residence permit", Königlich Norwegische Botschaft in Berlin
• Serbia: Link zur Botschaft der Republik Serbien in Berlin
• Türkiye: Link "Visa information for Foreigners", Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  
  

LMU Career Service regularly offers free workshops for cultural preparation to students going abroad.
Please contact us if you are interested in joing a workshop. If you already went through the grant application process, you will be notified about upcoming workshops automatically.

Upcoming dates are:

Winter term 2024/25:

• Friday, 17th January 2025

Summer term 2024:

• Friday, 12th July 2024
• Friday, 19th July 2024