Internship

General

. It is recommended that you do an internship during your studies., An internship can help you make your career choice and also provides relevant work experience that is considered important in job application procedures.

• A suitable time to do an internship is for example in the last year of the bachelor or during the master. You can also use an internship during the master's programme to fill in the Law in Practice component. To get you started in choosing an internship and thinking about your career after the study, all information is available on this webpage, arranged in clear steps. Here you can follow the steps of the career decision making model:Self-analysis
• Exploration
• Decision-making
• Action
• Reflection

Using these steps, you will be prompted to think about your career choice and be able to choose an appropriate internship.

Faculty internship coordinator / Career Coach

Every programme has an internship coordinator. For general questions about internships, you can also contact the Faculty internship coordinator.

Internship Regulation

The Faculty has a Law in Practice Regulation which holds amongst others the guidelines with regard to duration of the internship, the internship supervision, the approval of internships, secrecy, and insurances.

Approval and registration of result

In order for an internship to be a part of a programme, it must be approved by the Board of Examiners. You can apply for this approval through this link.

Formal approval

The internship coordinator of your programme needs to approve your internship before it starts. The internship needs to be formally approved. You need to meet the formal demands for the internship and final report, as arranged for in the Internship Regulation.

Combination with a paper

An internship and a paper cannot be dealing with the same topic. This also goes for two internships and two papers when taken in two different programmes. Within a programme, an activity can only lead to the award of ECTS once.

Internships in Gradleaders Career Center

The internships which are offered to the Faculty are offered in Gradleaders Career Center. This information can be found on the Student Portal. Please click the tab ‘Career’.

Gradleaders Career Center

The tab 'Career' in the Student Portal offers you an overview of some of the career events and vacancies that can be interesting for you and are offered via the Faculty. In order to allow you to properly search the complete list, we advise you to login to the underlying system in which all this information is stored. You can do so by clicking ‘Student Login’. You can find interesting career events and career activities, job offers, internships, (free) workshops in the field of personal development, networking and the writing of a good CV and cover letter.

Goning Global

You will find internships in the Netherlands and abroad in the tab Career on the Student Portal under the heading GoingGlobal.

Community for interns

To best guide you through this process, the Faculty has established so-called online internship communities. An open community for the orientation process mentioned above and a closed community for when you actually start your internship. You will find the open community under My Organizations in the Student Portal and you will be added to the closed community when you have found an internship approved by the internship coordinator. In these communities you will find useful and fun information such as videos and blogs from students who have already done internships. You can also ask questions to fellow students doing internships and the (Faculty) internship coordinators.

Roadmap

You will find all the important steps listed in the roadmap for internships for ECTS.

Last update: 29-07-2024