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Their mission is to represent international students by providing opportunities for cultural understanding and self-development under the principle of Students Helping Students. ESN has more than 13.000 members in local sections all over Europe working on a volunteer basis
The STORY project has been funded with support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. It aims at improving the accessibility and quality of international internships, as well as at increasing the awareness on the existence of such opportunities .The online platform was being developed to enhance students’ international opportunities on the European job market.
ErasmusIntern.org provides a place where companies and organisations can publish their internship offers and search for interns, and where students that want to do an internship abroad can have their profiles, search and apply for internships vacancies.
Quality Internships
One of the major challenges of today’s young graduates is transition phase from education to the labour market and consequently, the unsustainable high youth unemployment rate in many EU countries. At the same time, work experience is highly valued by employers, thus early labour market experience such as internships, traineeships and apprenticeships are useful to facilitate youth access to job market.
However, the lack of clear quality guidelines undermines the main purpose of internships, internships and apprenticeships which is to give practical skills to young people.
In this context, the European Quality Charter of Internships and Apprenticeships, an initiative of the European Youth Forum, was created.
The European Youth Forum is the platform of youth organisations , It represents 99 National Youth Councils and International Youth Organisations from across the continent. The Erasmus Student Network (provider of ErasmusIntern) as an international student organisation, is a member of YFJ since 2010.
The European Quality Charter of Internships and Apprenticeships lays basic quality principles for internships and apprenticeships to become a valuable and quality experience across Europe.
It has been elaborated in close cooperation with different stakeholders: trade unions, companies, and institutions, to ensure that such a quality framework will become a reality for all young Europeans.
ERASMUS INTERN
ErasmusIntern.org is part of STORY project which is a project by the Erasmus Student Network (ESN). ESN is a non-profit international student organisation
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