Background
Twice a year the European Economic and Social Committee offers traineeships for a period of five months to university graduates who are nationals of the Member States of the European Union, as well as to a number of university graduates from non-EU countries. These periods of in-service training offer an opportunity to learn about the EESC's roles and activities and to acquire professional experience in a multicultural environment. They begin on 16 February and 16 September of each year and take place in the Committee's offices in Brussels.
Objectives
In offering traineeships, the EESC's main objectives are to give trainees the opportunity to:
- learn about the EESC's role and activities at interinstitutional level, as well as its relations with EU Member States and with non-Member
States
- acquire practical knowledge about how the EESC's various departments operate
- supplement and apply knowledge and skills acquired during their studies and/or work
- gain experience in a multicultural, multilingual and multi-ethnic professional environment, helping people develop understanding,
confidence and mutual tolerance.
Eligibility
- Language - applicants must have a thorough commant of one EU language and a satisfactory command of another EU language, one of
which must be one of the EESC's working languages (English or French). Applicants from non-Member States shall just be required to have
good command of one of the EESC's working languages
- Medical certificate - trainees must provide proof of their medical fitness for undertaking a traineeship
- Police record - trainees must provide an extract from the police record to provide proof they have the moral standards necessary for
carrying out the tasks assigned to them.
Exclusion criteria
- Applicants shall not be accepted from people who have already completed a period of paid traineeship of six weeks or longer with an EU
institution, agency or representation office
- Applicants who are serving or have served as an assistant to a member of the European Parliament
- Applicants who are working or have worked as a consultant on a research assignment, or as a temporary, contract or agency staff member
at an EU institution, agency or represenation office.
Deadline: 31 March 2013
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