PROMOS LMU

In order to apply for the PROMOS ^LMU scholarship you must meet the following requirements:

• Internship is in a non-European country or in the United Kingdom (but not in the country of your main residence)
• Enrolled at LMU Munich
• students of veterinary or human medicine cannot apply for PROMOS; please see the PROSA LMU program

• Full-time internships of 35 hours or more per week or 12 hours of instruction per week for teaching internships
• Voluntary and mandatory internships
• Types of internships:
  • Regular internships (e.g. in the private sector, foundations, associations and NGOs)
  • Teaching internships at foreign schools
  • Research internships at foreign, non-university research institutes
• Relevant to your degree program
• Internship duration from a minimum of eight weeks
• Clinical traineeships, PJ tertials and veterinary internships are not eligible for PROMOS: funding by PROSA LMU

• Clinical traineeships, PJ tertials and veterinary internships: funding by PROSA LMU
• Internships with a duration of less than 8 weeks
• Research internships at universities in non-Erasmus+ countries: funding by PROSA LMU
• School internships at German schools abroad: DAAD short-term scholarship program
• Internships at Goethe Institutes: DAAD short-term scholarship program
  
• International organizations (EU, UN, Weltbankgruppe, IMF, OECD, OSZE, NATO, ASEAN and IOM): DAAD short-term scholarship program
• German foreign missions: DAAD short-term scholarship program
• German archaeological institutes: DAAD short-term scholarship program
• The Max Weber Foundation Institute: DAAD short-term scholarship program
• Internships in institutions managing EU funds
• Internships as part of programs offered by the following organizations:
  • IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience)
  • AIESEC (Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, International Association for Students in Economics and Business)
  • bvmd (Bundesvertretung der Medizinstudierenden in Deutschland e.V., Federal Association of Medical Students in Germany)
  • ZAD (Zahnmedizinischer Austauschdienst, Dental Exchange Service) and
  • DCGM (Deutsch-Chinesische Gesellschaft für Medizin, German-Chinese Society for Medicine)

The amount of your PROMOS scholarship is determined by the country in which your internship takes place.
The following list is exemplary, information on scholarship amounts for countries not listed here can be requested from us via e-mail.

Group 1:

• one-time payment of 1.100 €
• countries: e.g. Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Japan, Singapore, Tansania

Group 2:

• one-time payment of 900 €
• countres: e.g. Australia, Chile, Kenia, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, USA, Vietnam

Group 3:

• one-time payment of 700 €
• countries: e.g. Canada, United Kingdom

The amount of your PROMOS scholarship is determined by the country in which your internship takes place.
The following list is exemplary, information on scholarship amounts for countries not listed here can be requested from us via e-mail.

Group 1:

• one-time payment of 1.100 €
• countries: e.g. Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland, Singapore, South Korea, USA

Group 2:

• one-time payment of 900 €
• countres: e.g. Chile, Canada, Kenia, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Tansania, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam

You got accepted for your dream internship? Great!

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

• Exact date of the beginning of your internship (e.g. Monday, the...)
• Exact date of the end of the internship (e.g. Friday, the...)
• Location of your internship
• Country of your internship
• Your faculty at LMU (number and name)
• Name of your internship institution
• Scholarship: PROMOS ^LMU
• Research internship: yes/no (If yes: funding via PROSA, application deadline 2 months)
• Have you already received funding via PROMOS / PROSA (study/internship): yes/no; If yes: how many months have you already been funded and in which course of study?

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 you start your internship!

Please apply through the MoveON portal. To use this, you have to register with your LMU email address. Please select the online form "Bewerbung Stipendium Auslandspraktikum" (Scholarship Application for Internships Abroad) via the portal.

The following documents must be uploaded to apply for PROMOS ^LMU Scholarship:

• A signed Training Agreement (DOC, 92 KB) (student, internship provider, LMU Career Services). Please note: The Training Agreement must be sent to us via mail after student and internship provider have signed. 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.
• Transcript of Records, downloadable via LSF (current)
• Letter of motivation (1 - 2 pages), including a statement on your choice of internship, the relation to your studies, and the necessity of the funding for your stay
• Resume
• Registration certificate(s) for the entire duration of your stay
• Insurance declaration (PDF, 52 KB)
• A certificate of language competence
  • Of your working language, minimum level B1
  • If your internship requires your native language, please hand in a certifcate of antoher relevant language
  • Not older than 2 years
  • One option is the DAAD language certificate from the LMU Language Center
  • If your certificate of language comeptence is older than two years or you don't have one in your working language, please contact us viamail and we will provide a test via the OLS platform.

• 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

In case your application is approved you will receive a Placement Agreement (Stipendienvereinbarung) via e-mail. These must be signed by you, scanned, and sent back to LMU Career Service via e-mail.

Afterwards, your installment will be paid timely.

• Confirmation Letter (PDF, 53 KB), which is completed by your employer and includes the beginning and ending dates of your internship.
• A qualified reference by your internship provider. This reference looks great in future applications!
• 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 the application doesn't cover the entire period of your internship.

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