Professional Placement Module
Professional Placement Module
As a rule, the training module consists of a combination of the following components:
- An eight-week work placement (full-time or, equivalently, a longer period on a part-time basis, totalling 320 working hours), which may also be undertaken abroad
- Attendance at a supporting course to prepare for and follow up on the work placement (courses relating to the training module) and
- Preparation of a written work placement report (10–15 pages)
The work placement must be issued a certificate by the relevant company:
Please use the form provided by the Examinations Office (certificate for a ‘profession-related placement’) for this purpose. Under ‘First subject’, enter the name of your degree programme. You should only complete the ‘Second subject’ field if you are studying a dual-subject Bachelor’s degree. Under ‘Training module in the subject’, enter ‘see above’ for a single-subject Bachelor’s degree and ‘Economics’ for a dual-subject Bachelor’s degree. Under ‘Module title’, enter ‘prx108’. You do not need to complete the field ‘3 In lieu of the orientation internship …’. Your placement organisation will enter the details in the field ‘2 Certificate of completion of the placement’. If you have forgotten to have your placement organisation complete field 2 and are unable to do so retrospectively, enter ‘see certificate’ in field 2, thereby referring to the certificate of activities or the employment reference (see below for details).
Please note that the work placement must be clearly relevant to your degree programme in terms of both content and level of difficulty (see FAQs). If in doubt, please contact the work placement co-ordinator for advice on the suitability of your placement before it begins.
To complete the module, you must submit the following documents in total:
- Internship report
- Proof that you have completed the accompanying course
- if you took the seminar from October 2025 onwards (with Ms Junker), it is sufficient to write the date of the seminar on the cover page of your placement report
- if you took the seminar before October 2025 (with Ms Bartel or Ms Antoni-Komar), you must submit your reflection paper from that time or the confirmation email from the lecturer (which you received after completing the seminar)
- Certificate for the training module (to be completed by you in section 1 and by the company in section 2)
- Certificate* from your internship organisation or employer detailing the main tasks/areas of responsibility you undertook, i.e. either
- a reference (setting out the tasks / nature of the work) or
- a certificate listing only your duties
- * The certificate must contain at least the following information:
- Description of the role (e.g. intern / working student)
- Start date of employment and, where applicable, end date (period / duration)
- Main duties/tasks involved in your role
- If your working pattern differed from a full-time model, please also state the approximate number of hours you worked or confirm that you worked for at least 320 hours
- Signature of a company employee and details of a contact person
- Please note: Employment or work placement contracts cannot be used as proof.
Please do not submit the documents (by email) until you have completed all the required components.
The following credits/recognition are possible for the training module:
- Instead of the required work experience, the successful completion of a state-recognised vocational training programme in a commercial or administrative field may be credited , provided that this training is relevant to the degree programme. In this case, the additional requirement of submitting a report and attending the accompanying course is waived – the training programme replaces the entire training module. 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 the presentation of the original and a copy).
- Case-by-case recognition (e.g. of work carried out as a working student) can be assessed in a face-to-face meeting. Please contact the placement coordinator at an early stage to clarify whether your work can be credited towards the practical placement period in the module. In this case, credit is awarded only for the practical placement period (8 weeks or 320 hours); the placement report and attendance at the accompanying course remain mandatory.