Work placements
Gaining experience abroad is becoming increasingly important. Companies seek employees who are mobile, flexible and have international experience. A work placement abroad will greatly benefit your personal and professional development.
You are able to gain experience in a new environment, learn about other countries, people and cultures, and acquire new working methods and techniques. You want to do a work placement abroad?
IFA will help you:
- complete your application documents
- prepare and organize your stay abroad
- with funding for the duration of the work placement
- document your experience abroad and issue any necessary certificates
IFA organizes work placements in European countries for apprentices at set times for a period of several weeks.IFA also helps companies and schools with the planning, organization and administration of projects abroad.
You can count on IFA – Your partner for mobility!
Are you are an apprentice, at least 16 years old and maybe you have already finished your second year of training? Then Europe is waiting for you: Do a work placement abroad! This means living and working in another country for a few weeks. Here you will get to know a different culture, a new language and new work techniques. And of course, lots of other young people.
“I was totally excited and very happy with the IFA organization and my stay abroad!”
IFA helps you organize your work placement abroad! This is how it works:
Two or three times a year, there is a call for apprentices like you to participate in a work placement abroad. This is your chance to get a work placement at fixed dates. All you have to do is apply! To find out what you need for your application, check out the information sheet now!.
IFA then selects a group of four to twelve apprentices, organizes the entire stay abroad including the travel arrangements, accommodation, work placement etc.
Have you found your own work placement or has your company or vocational school found a work placement for you?
Then it works like this: You organize the work placement and IFA organizes the funding. Just be sure to contact IFA early enough!
A work placement abroad during your apprenticeship is credited towards your education. The work placement is unpaid, but you will still receive your usual apprenticeship wages. The best part is: Funding is available for your work placement! First, for your travel and accommodation expenses and secondly, your company can apply for a refund of your apprenticeship wages for the time of your work placement abroad. For a three- to six-week stay abroad, you will only have to pay about 200 to 650 euros yourself (deductible).
By the way: For many languages, there is also a free online language tool. You can even apply for financial support for certain languages that are necessary for your work placement abroad.
Questions? IFA is there for you:
Simply call us at +43 (0)1 366 55 44-0.
Or visit us on Facebook. We will be happy to tell you more about your work placement abroad!
Are you a student and at least 16 years old? You are attending a vocational middle or secondary school and ideally have already finished your 3rd year? Then apply for a work placement abroad! Your chances are best if you have good grades in your professional and language courses.
“I learned a lot of new work techniques during my work placement abroad. I really enjoyed it. I would definitely do it again.”
Discover the world with IFA
A work placement abroad means that you will spend a few weeks living and working in another country. There you will learn not only new work techniques, but also get to know a new culture, the people and the language they speak.
A work placement abroad means that you will spend a few weeks living and working in another country. There you will learn not only new work techniques, but also get to know a new culture, the people and the language they speak.
IFA funds work placements abroad for students who arrange their own work placements and for graduates of a vocational middle or secondary school within one year of completing their training.
Have you found your own work placement or has your company or vocational school found a work placement for you?
Then it works like this: You organize the work placment, IFA organizes the funding. Just be sure to contact IFA early enough! At the very latest four weeks before the start of the work placement. Simply call us or send us an email
By the way: For many languages, there is also a free online language tool. You can even apply for financial support for certain languages that are necessary for your work placement abroad. Contact IFA for more information!
Questions? IFA is there for you:
Simply call us at +43 (0)1 366 55 44-0, or visit us at Facebook. We will be happy to tell you more about your work placement abroad.
IFA has been organizing and funding experience exchanges abroad for trainers and experts in vocational education since 1995. Today, international experience is essential for professional development. Stays abroad offer a lasting opportunity to deepen your skills and guarantee the overall quality of the training you provide.
Who can participate?
Trainers are those who train apprentices at companies, human resource managers, teachers at vocational schools and experts in vocational training. Funding is provided for multipliers who pass on their experience to young people or adults in vocational training.
What funding is provided?
As part of the European program Erasmus+, the participants receive a grant towards travel and accommodation expenses for the experience exchange in other European countries.
During the stay abroad you will visit companies, schools and other educational institutions that are responsible for the content and implementation of the training programs. The purpose of the stay abroad is to share your own experience with the approaches in other countries. Often, lasting partnerships with companies in other European countries can also be established.
This benefits the participants, the Austrian companies and training institutions, the vocational training and Austria as a business location as a whole:
- Get to know the working methods and training systems of other European countries!
- Broaden your intercultural and language skills!
- Take advantage of the opportunity to make new international contacts!
Interested in an experience exchange abroad? IFA is there for you:
Call us at +43 (0)1 366 55 44-0 and we will be happy to tell you how we can assist in organizing an experience exchange abroad.