Professional Placement Module
Professional Placement Module
As a rule, the training module consists of a combination of the following elements:
- An eight-week work placement (full-time or, equivalently, a longer period on a part-time basis, totalling 320 working hours), which may also take place 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 ‘profession-related work placement’) for this purpose. Enter your details in Field 1. Tick the box for the module ‘prx108 profession-related work placement (15 CP)’. In field 2, ‘Proof of Completed Internship’, your internship organisation will enter the details. If you have forgotten to have Field 2 completed by your placement organisation and are unable to do so retrospectively, please enter “see evidence” in Field 2, thereby referring to the record of activities or the employment reference (see below for details). Once you have completed fields 1 and 2, send this form, together with your other documents, to the internship co-ordinator, Ms Junker (praktikum.wire@uol.de). Field 3 will then be completed by Ms Junker once she has reviewed your documents, and she will also forward it to the Examinations Office (with you in CC) so that the 15 credit points can be credited to your transcript.
Please note that the 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 placement coordinator 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 the internship report
- if you took the seminar before October 2025 (with Ms Bartel or Ms Antoni-Komar), you must submit either 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 placement organisation or employer detailing the main tasks/areas of responsibility you undertook, i.e. either
- a reference (setting out the duties and scope of 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 arrangements differ 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 (collected in a single email) until you have completed all the required components.
The following credits/recognition options are available for the training module:
- Instead of the required work, 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 presentation of the original and a copy).
- Case-by-case recognition (e.g. of work carried out as a working student) may be assessed by the work placement coordinator. Please contact the work placement coordinator in good time 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.