The aim of the internship abroad is to gain experience abroad under the aspect of experiencing "foreignness" and to gain teaching experience at a university in a non-German-speaking country.

The internship is exclusively for students studying German as a Foreign and Second Language who actively study at an Austrian university, i.e. who also take examinations (at least 5 ECTS credits in the previous semester) or who are active in research in German as a Foreign and Second Language at an Austrian university, specifically bachelor’s students specialising in German as a Foreign and Second Language, master's students studying German as a Foreign and Second Language, and teacher training students studying German Studies (bachelor's and master's students).

Approx. 60 places are available each year. Interns will receive a monthly scholarship of 500-900 euros from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) (depending on the local living costs), plus a travel costs allowance, an allowance for visa fees, immunisation allowance and insurance.

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, Shanghai)
• Estonia (Tallinn)
• Finland (Oulu)
• Georgia (Tblisi)
• Ghana (Accra)
• India (New Delhi, Pune)
• Indonesia (Malang)
• Iran (Teheran)
• Japan (Tokyo)
• Jordania (Amman)
• Cameroon (Douala)
• Kazakhstan (Almaty)
• Kyrgyztan (Bishkek)
• Cuba (Havanna)
• Morocco (Fes)
• Mexico (Mexico City, Guanajuato)
• Montenegro (Niksic)
• New Zealand (Auckland)
• Poland (Krakow)
• Portugal (Braga)
• Romania (Bucharest, Constanta)
• Serbia (Novi Sad)
• Slovakia (Banska Bistrica)
• South Afrika (Stellenbosch)
• Tajikistan (Duschanbe)
• Taiwan (Kaohsiung)
• Czech Republic (Brno, Pilsen, Prague)
• Ukraine (Kropywnyzkyj, Lviv, Czernowitz)
• 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 is available here.

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: Mag. Paul Rusch