The time for the internship can be chosen individually. You can therefore complete the internship before the 6th semester (according to the study plan).

According to the examination regulations, there are no deadlines regarding when you must complete the work placement or fulfil the component requirements, even though the training module is scheduled for the 6th semester according to the study programme. However, you should bear in mind that the 15 CP certificate cannot be issued until you have submitted / completed all the required components (report, accompanying course and proof of the placement). As a rule of thumb, you should submit all documents at least 6 weeks before any deadlines. (See ‘How long does it take for the placement report to be assessed and for the credits to appear on StudIP?’)

You do not need to register the work placement with the university. You are responsible for finding a work placement yourself and for making the necessary organisational and contractual arrangements with the company. If you have any questions regarding employment law, please contact, for example, ‘Students at Work’ at the University of Oldenburg’s Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.

It is important that you obtain a certificate from the company confirming your placement. Please use the appropriate certificate form for this purpose.

However, registration is mandatory for the accompanying course for the work placement. Please register in good time, as places are limited for each seminar.

You can complete your internship in any field of activity that is related to your degree programme in terms of content and level of requirements. According to the implementation regulations of the examination regulations, companies, non-profit or public institutions (including universities), associations or organisations are suitable. For example, you can do an internship in a kindergarten as long as you carry out mainly business-related tasks there and do not spend most of your time working as a teacher. This means that the focus of the work placement must be on tasks related to the professional field and there must be a connection to the degree programme (e.g. there must be corresponding content-related references in at least one module of the degree programme) or there must be a connection to the academic objectives in connection with the degree programme (e.g. international management, quality management, i.e. fields of activity for which there are not yet any separate modules in the Bachelor's degree programme).

If in doubt, please contact the internship coordinator for advice on the suitability of your internship before the internship begins.

There are no specific requirements for the companies. You can complete the internship in a small or medium-sized company as well as in a corporate group. These can be companies, non-profit or public institutions (including universities), associations or other organisations. The sector is not relevant.

There is also no specific content that you must have learnt during an internship. The only important thing is the connection to your degree programme [see question "Where can I do my internship?"].

If in doubt, please contact the internship officer for advice on the suitability of your internship before the internship begins.

There is no basic rule for this. Experience has shown that you should apply 3 to 6 months before the start of your planned internship. In individual cases, positions are also advertised 1 year in advance. Sometimes there are also job advertisements at short notice.

The same periods apply to unsolicited applications, whereby the motto "the early bird catches the worm" applies, especially in the case of sought-after companies. These may be filled 1 year or more in advance. You can usually find information on the time periods for awarding positions on the websites of the respective companies.

Yes, an internship abroad is a great opportunity to gain practical and international experience at the same time.

If you have any questions about internships abroad, please contact the University of Oldenburg's career counselling service
→ uol.de/beruf-karriere/auslandspraktikum

The university has special funding programmes for financing an internship abroad. If you have any questions about financing internships abroad via scholarships, please contact the International Office (IO) at the University of Oldenburg
→ uol.de/finanzierung-auslandsaufenthalt

From the perspective of the internship centre, the internship and the Bachelor's thesis can be combined. However, it is important that you clarify in advance with the supervising chair whether the respective chair agrees. You should also clarify whether there are any special deadlines for the Bachelor's thesis that could conflict with the duration/deadline of the internship. Each chair has its own regulations in this regard.

Yes, you can do the internship in stages, at different companies and part-time. The important thing is that you end up with 8 weeks (or 320 working hours) of work placement.

Yes, it is only important that you complete a total of 320 hours. The number of weeks of the internship would be extended in this case.

• Company homepage (e.g. these companies from the region)
• Career portal of the University of Oldenburg for students
• Common job platforms and career networks
• Internship search engines or internship portals - there is now a very large selection here. If you already know which industry you would like to work in later, search the internet to see if there are any specialised search engines or portals for this.
• Oldenburg University's annual CareerDay, where you can make direct contact with companies in the region and also benefit from interesting information and lectures on the subject of applications/careers.
• Personal networks - use your personal contacts (friends, family, etc.). In the last survey of our students, 50 per cent obtained their internship through their personal network.

Don’t worry if you fall ill during your work placement – you do not need to make up for days off due to illness. The duration of the work placement therefore does not need to be extended to allow for sick leave. Here’s a quick tip: if your period of illness lasts for more than a week in total, you should, in your own interests, consider whether you

• agree an extension with the internship organisation retrospectively (if possible)
• complete another voluntary placement
• or find other ways to gain additional practical insights.

Although you are not legally entitled toholiday leave during a compulsory work placement (unlike with a voluntary work placement), it is quite common for employers to grant interns holiday leave nonetheless. Holidays taken during the placement count towards the 8 weeks / 320 hours. The placement period therefore does not need to be extended to account for holidays.

Similarly, you do not need to make up for public holidays on which your host organisation is closed. Here’s a brief recommendation: if several public holidays or periods when the organisation is closed fall within the internship period, you should, in your own interest, consider whether you

• agree a longer placement with the company from the outset
• complete a further voluntary placement
• or gain additional practical insights elsewhere.

You are entitled to receive a reference from your employer after your internship. It must contain at least the type of activity, its start and duration, but should ideally be designed as a so-called qualified reference, i.e. it should also contain statements on the specific learning and activity focus, performance and management during the internship. Please note that you must provide a certificate of employment or a certificate of activity to complete the prx108 training module.

At the University of Oldenburg, ‘Students at Work’, run by the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation, offers advice on employment law for students.

For general information on the (particularly legal) framework governing internships whilst studying, you can also find out more via, for example, Studis Online (external website; not an University of Oldenburg information page).

In addition to the work-related placement and the placement report, the training module also includes attendance at an accompanying course (seminar). The accompanying course may be undertaken before, during or after the placement.

The accompanying seminar for module prx108 at the Department of Economics and Law takes place as a block seminar over three days.

You can find the accompanying courses for the module ‘prx108 Profession-Specific Work Placement’ in Stud.IP under course numbers 2.02.591, 2.02.592, 2.02.593 and 2.02.595 under the title ‘Accompanying seminar for the training module prx108 (for students of the Department of Economics and Law)’. You can register there. Enter, for example, ‘Accompanying seminar for the prx108 training module’ in the search function in Stud.IP. You will then be able to see all the available courses and dates for the relevant semester. The courses are made available centrally in Stud.IP, usually in August for the coming winter semester and in February for the coming summer semester.

Registration for the accompanying course is mandatory. The number of places per accompanying course is limited. You may only register for one of the courses as a participant or for a place on the waiting list.

Active participation in the accompanying course is compulsory. You should therefore make firm plans to attend the three days of the relevant accompanying course and take part in them in order to be able to complete the seminar.

During the accompanying course, you will receive an overview of the training module and its components. The focus will then be on the topics of the ‘application process’ and ‘application training’, as well as critical reflections on work placements. The content is therefore relevant for both preparation and follow-up, and also provides important information and opportunities for reflection in relation to future work placements and starting your career.

You can complete the accompanying course before, during or after your internship. As the content also includes information on job searches and applications, it may be beneficial to attend before your internship.

You can find information here. Otherwise, please note that you must, of course, handle all sensitive data appropriately and not include it in the report. It is also possible to anonymise, for example, the company’s customers.

No, the entire module (15 CP) is ungraded and is only assessed as "passed" or "failed".

Yes, in principle, the use of generative artificial intelligence (GKI) to create the internship report is permitted. However, some restrictions and requirements must be taken into account. These can be found in the information document on the internship report.

*If you have forgotten to have Field 2 completed by your internship provider and are no longer able to do so, please enter ‘see proof’ in Field 2, referring to the proof of work or the employment reference.

Submit directly to the electronically by email (not to the Examinations Office).

Please do not submit the documents (in one email) until you have completed all partial performances.

The 15 CP will only be awarded once you have submitted / completed all the required components (report, accompanying course and proof of the placement). First, the assessment is carried out by the coordinator for the training module, who then notifies the Examinations Office of your successful completion and the 15 CP (by email, with you in CC). This is followed by the Examinations Office’s review of the documents and the recording of the credit points, which may take several weeks.

Please bear in mind any deadlines for your Master’s application and submit your documents for the training module in good time to ensure the credit points are credited to your account.

As a rule of thumb, you should submit all documents at least 6 weeks before any deadlines. If this is not possible, please contact the coordinator for the training module at an early stage.

If the credits have not yet been entered into StudIP six weeks after you have submitted your documents and the coordinator of the training module has issued a certificate confirming the credits, please contact the Examinations Office. Only the Examinations Office can credit the credits to your account.

Partial credit cannot be awarded. Only the total number of credit points (15 CP) can be certified once all the components of the training module have been completed.

Part-time jobs (including work-study placements) and other professional experience may, in some cases, be recognised as equivalent to the practical placement period (8 weeks or 320 hours). The work must be appropriate to the aims and subject area of your degree programme in terms of content and level of difficulty. Furthermore, it must be relevant to your studies in terms of timing; in other words, it should have been carried out whilst you were studying. The work must also comprise a total of at least 320 working hours.

You can discuss this option with the placement co-ordinator. Please contact the placement co-ordinator at an early stage to clarify whether your work can be credited towards the practical placement period in the module. In such cases, only the practical placement period would be taken into account. The placement report and the accompanying courses are still required.

Voluntary service programmes (FSJ and similar) cannot generally be credited, as they are not comparable in terms of the criteria mentioned above. However, even in these cases, please feel free to speak to the internship co-ordinator to have your work assessed.

If you have completed a state-recognised vocational training programme under the dual system in the commercial or administrative sector, this will generally be recognised without any problems. Advice and credit transfer are handled by the Examinations Office via a proposal for credit transfer (including a certified copy of the examination certificate or presentation of the original and a copy).

If you have completed an apprenticeship in a technical field or a programme consisting mainly of classroom-based study, it is unlikely that your qualifications will be recognised. In this case, please contact the Coordination Office for the training module at the Department of Economics and Business Administration (WiRe).

Crediting of CP from abroad is possible under certain circumstances. Please contact the internship coordinator before the start of the semester abroad.

All components of the training module (internship, accompanying course) and the completion of the training module (internship report, certificate) are credits. You must therefore be enrolled (i.e. you must not be on leave of absence, for example) if you are completing work as part of the training module. If you have any questions, please contact the Admissions office.

Please send your enquiry by email to: . Please state your degree programme and your postal address in the email.

You will receive the certificate by email.

IMPORTANT: We can only issue a certificate for a total of 8 weeks or 320 working hours as a compulsory work placement, as these are the requirements set out in the examination regulations. Unfortunately, we cannot issue any additional certificates.

Whether you are entitled to the minimum wage from a legal point of view during your compulsory work placement (and, where applicable, any subsequent voluntary work placement) depends on various conditions. Find out more, for example, from the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs: the BMAS brochure ‘The Minimum Wage – Questions & Answers’

If, from a legal perspective, you are not entitled to the minimum wage during your placement, your employer may nevertheless offer you financial remuneration for your placement and set this out in your employment contract.

For general information on the (particularly legal) framework conditions for internships whilst studying, you can also find out more via, for example, Studis Online (external website; not an information page of the University of Oldenburg).

If you have any further questions or concerns on this topic, the University of Oldenburg offers employment law advice for students through ‘Students at Work’, a service provided by the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.