Welcome
So far, you have only known your academic subject theoretically? Would you like to know
the practical side of it? Are you studying in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,
Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro or Serbia or will you graduate in 2024? Are you interested to gain practical work experience in Germany within the framework of an internship?
If you can answer these questions with ‘yes’, you are invited to apply for our Internship Programme of German Business – the call for application is open from 1st October until 14th November 2024!
Your time in Germany will have a huge positive impact on your professional and personal development which will increase your employability upon your return back home. You will be able to get a decent job related to your education much faster and easier. This way, your new experience and contacts will also strengthen the economic development in your home countries and promote bilateral economic relations both with Germany and within the region. This exchange and the associated alumni network make the Programme an important contribution to regional reconciliation, intensifies economic relations and creates a cross-border network of cosmopolitan young professionals in the region.
The Internship Programme of German Business provides an insight into German corporate culture. You will gain practical work experience in modern management and work organisation, work in a multicultural environment and expand your professional as well as your personal network.
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Our upcoming events
Mid-term meeting generation 2024
29th August – 1st September 2024
The mid-term meeting provides a platform for scholarship holders to share their experiences, challenges, and successes during the first couple of weeks into their internships, but also offers support, if needed. It strengthens the generation such as, providing the opportunity to meet all scholarship holders of the generation once again. It is an opportunity to evaluate expectations and a time for reflection about the past two month, but also planning the next steps during the internships and the time in Germany.
Alumni conference in Croatia
12th – 15th September 2024
The regional alumni network provides former participants of the Internship Programme of German Business with incomparable opportunities for networking and further education. During our regional alumni conference alumni from all the participating countries deepen their knowledge in one of the offered workshops and network during teambuilding activities. Thus, the regional alumni network plays a crucial role in promoting life-long learning, peacebuilding and reconciliation in the region.
Meeting of the Sustainability Core Group – transformation project
27th – 29th September 2024
The alumni have the ownership of the regional alumni network. Within the Sustainability Core Group alumni organise different means of education like advanced workshops and courses on various topics. The topics are defined by alumni of the network and all alumni may apply to participate in these events. Furthermore, a group of alumni dedicates part of their time for the development of financial and organisational sustainability of the regional alumni network of the Internship Programme of German Business for the Countries of the Western Balkans. This group meets up to discuss the next steps within the transformation project.
