The aim of the Junior lectureship on one hand is to gain experience abroad under the aspect of experiencing "foreignness" and on the other hand to gain teaching experience at a university in a non-German-speaking country.

Target group

The Junior lectureship is exclusively for students studying German as a Foreign and Second Language who actively study at an Austrian university, i.e. who take examinations (at least 8 ECTS credits in the previous semester) or who carry out research in German as a Foreign and Second Language at an Austrian university, specifically bachelor’s students in German Philology, master's students in German Philology, master's students studying German as a Foreign and Second Language, and teacher training students studying German Studies (bachelor's and master's students);

and participants in the certificate courses at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna (‘Teaching German as a Foreign Language Worldwide’ and ‘Teaching German as a Second and Foreign Language’) who are still enrolled at the time of application and have completed the certificate course before the planned start of the internship.

Places

Approx. 40 places are available each year. Interns will receive a monthly scholarship of 850-1400 euros from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) (depending on the local living costs).

The internship can be completed over a period of 3-5 months in the following countries:

• Egypt (Cairo)
• Algeria (Oran)
• Argentina (Mendoza)
• Armenia (Yerevan)
• Azerbaijan (Baku)
• Australia (Sydney)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar, Sarajevo)
• Brazil (Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro)
• Chile (Santiago)
• China (Beijing)
• Estonia (Tallinn)
• Finland (Oulu)
• Georgia (Tblisi)
• Ghana (Accra)
• India (New Delhi, Pune)
• Indonesia (Malang)
• Iran (Teheran)
• Japan (Tokyo)
• Jordan (Amman)
• Cameroon (Douala)
• Kazakhstan (Almaty)
• Kyrgyztan (Bishkek)
• Cuba (Havanna)
• Morocco (Fes)
• Mexico (Mexico City, Guanajuato)
• Mongolia (Ulan Baator)
• Montenegro (Niksic)
• New Zealand (Auckland)
• Poland (Krakow)
• Portugal (Braga)
• Romania (Bucharest, Constanta)
• Senegal (Dakar)
• Serbia (Novi Sad)
• Slovakia (Banska Bistrica)
• Slovenia (Ljubljana)
• South Afrika (Stellenbosch)
• Tajikistan (Duschanbe)
• Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) (Kaohsiung)
• Czech Republic (Brno, Pilsen, Prague)
• Tunisia (Tunis)
• Ukraine (Kropywnyzkyj, Lviv, Czernowitz) – currently only online
• Hungary (Budapest)
• Uzbekistan (Tashkent)
• Vietnam (Hanoi: HANU, VNU)

Current call for applications: Link to the call for applications at grants.at

Closing date for applications: 31 January of every year

Further information (in German) is available on the website of the University of Vienna.

Application via the online application form at www.grants.at or via www.scholarships.at

Team of German as a Foreign Language experts

• University of Vienna: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karen Schramm
• University of Graz: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger
• University of Salzburg: Dr. Peter Mauser
• University of Klagenfurt: Mag. Dr. Manuela Glaboniat
• University of Innsbruck: Dr. Lesya Skintey