This programme allows you to do a traineeship during your studies or a post-graduation traineeship in non-European countries. 

Students regularly enrolled in UniTrento undergraduate and master programmes, PhD as well as UniTrento students enrolled in single courses. If you are enrolled in single courses at the time of application for the traineeship, remember that you must be enrolled in a UniTrento master  programme at the start of the traineeship.
If you are entrolled in a joint programme, you can apply only if your career is managed by UniTrento (namely which is started at UniTrento).

Universities, research institutes, companies located in non-European countries. As non-European countries are considered the countries not mentioned in the Destinations box at the Traineeship in Erasmus+ countries webpage. Due to security concerns, mobility to Ukraine, Russia and Israel are temporarily suspended.

Below is provided the list of traineeship proposals received from other organizations. Students are requested to contact directly the selected institution.

Traineeship offers from other contacts (GDrive folder) (use your account UniTrento to access the folder)

Please note: mobility towards the following non-European partners is possible only for study purposes (courses attendance).

United States: University of Massachusetts Lowell, California State University
Canada: McMaster University, Sherbrooke University, Carleton University, University of Calgary
China: Shanghai University, Shanghai International Studies University
Japan: Nagasaki University
Australia: University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, Macquarie University

From 2 to 6 months. 

Once started, the traineeship must not be interrrupted by any other activity. Traineeship working hours per week must be at least 32 hours. The maximum working hours during the internship depends on the local legislation which the host institution must adhere to. 

If you interrupt the internship without valid and documented reasons or if you fail to submit the required paperwork at the end of the mobility, you will have to return the scholarship already received. Not returning the scholarship will result in the impossibility to enrol in the following academic year or to graduate.

Important note for Opera Universitaria accommodation grantees: if you got your Opera Universitaria accommodation through the International Mobility Office, please note that you will have to leave your accommodation at the time of departure for the internship abroad and that you will not be eligible for another one ionce you are back.

You have to apply online (only for one destination) using the application tool for UniTrentoTraineeship in non-European countries

Application periods have different deadlines:

• Applications submitted by December 2024 must plan for departure by April 2025
• Applications submitted by April 2025 must plan for departure by July 2025.

Applications are accepted by the end of each month. The internship can start as early as 45 days after the monthly deadline (e.g. if you apply any time in July, you will be able to begin the internship starting from 15 September).

By the 15th day of the month following the application, the list of admitted/not admitted candidates will be published online (slight delays might occur during the month of January and August).

Within 5 days from the date of the online publication of the admitted candidates, you have to email the International Mobility staff to confirm your participation in the programme.

General requirements

You can apply for only one destination.

Candidates who have been admitted to another mobility for the same period (e.g. Bilateral Agreement) will be allowed to participate in only one of the mobilities and will have to withdraw from the other one.

Specific requirements and required documents

Check the Specific requirements at the Open Selections call webpage, depending if you are Student or recently graduated Student.

If you participate in a Double Degree programme, you can do your internship only if you have passed all the exams foreseen in the joint study plan and only in a different destination country than the one of your Double Degree. In addition, your motivation letter has to be approved by the academic tutors of both universities, who need to confirm that the internship is consistent with the Double Degree programme.

Within 15 days from the end of the internship, you have to submit the required paperwork to the International Mobility staff.

Only traineeships duly certified through a Traineeship Certificate will be recognised to undergraduate and master students in terms of CFU credits. A reference letter will be sent as conclusion of the mobility to all partecipants by UniTrento.

You are entitled to attend a CLA course in the traineeship language or in the language of the destination country (http://www.cla.unitn.it/488/iscrizioni-ai-corsi). Any further course will be at your charge. For additional information about courses' timetables and registration, visit the CLA website .

Starting from November 2024 applications, funding to support internships in non European countries has been reintroduced.

The funding is granted for a maximum of 4 months for students and 3 months for graduates.

The scholarship will be paid in a single installment once the physical mobility has started. The scholarship amount for post graduate traineeship is subject to taxation.

For a.y. 2024/2025 UniTrento offers scholarships differentiated by family income: