Not all internships abroad are paid or will cover only part of the costs.
In addition to travel costs and the sometimes higher cost of living, visa fees and extra health / liability insurance costs must also be budgeted depending on the destination country.
Under certain conditions you can apply for financial support:
The ASA-Program is for people who want to change something. The ASA-Program stands for common learning, global thinking and social responsibility, and provides insights into international cooperation. Participants expand their professional qualifications and combine them with intercultural know-how. And: The ASA program is much more than a new personal experience. It means cross-border learning and involvement in an active alumni network - a change of perspective over time that has a lasting effect.
The EU program "Leonardo da Vinci" provides financial support for recognized internship projects in European countries for undergraduate students.
The Heinz Nixdorf Program for promoting the Asia-Pacific experience enables young German aspiring-to-be executives to undertake six-month internships in Asian countries, thereby preparing them for future sales markets and contributing to their global thinking and global mobility.
The Carlo Schmid Program promotes internships in international organizations and EU institutions. It is intended to make interested, highly qualified students and graduates familiar with the problems and working methods in the international administrative area as part of an internship and to contribute to the expansion of their intercultural competence. A distinction is made between program A: applications with internship commitments obtained on their own initiative and program B: applications for specific internships offered in the respective competition.
To support students, a short-term, low-interest loan for financing their education is offered as part of the Bildungskreditprogramms (educational loan scheme, German only). You can get up to 7.500,00 Euro and have to pay back the amount within four years after the end of your studies.
The DAAD provides comprehensive information about internships abroad. In the DAAD Scholarship Database you can search specifically for scholarships for your project.
One chance is the HAW International Scholarship for internships overseas. (Unfortunately this page is only in German.)
Program goal
The aim of the program is to support HAW/FH students in carrying out internships abroad and thus to enable them to gain practical experience in an international context. The stays abroad also offer the opportunity to gain intercultural experience and to acquire or deepen foreign language skills. In this way, the program helps to qualify students for the international job market.
More information about the entire HAW.International program initiative can be found at www.daad.de/HAW.