STEP - Student Trainee Exchange Programme

Gain working experience abroad

 What are the advantages in comparison to other programmes?
 What are the conditions for taking part?
 How does the application work?
 Which costs will rise up?
 How does the traineeship itself work?
 Further Information

What are the main advantages in comparison to other programmes than STEP?

In general STEP-traineeships are paid. The salary will usually be as high as the average local living costs, so that you need not to cope with financing.
Moreover you will get personal assistance up from the application until the end of the traineeship itself. Questions referring to the application will be answered unhesitatingly by your local  STEPer. Once abroad you will be warmly welcomed by the STEPer of the local ELSA-group offering the traineeship. He will support you to find a feasable accomodation, will invite you to local ELSA-Events etc., in order to make you feel comfortable and integrated.

What are the conditions for taking part?

Referring to a decision of the International Council Meeting (ICM) each STEP-Applicant has to be an ELSA-Member. To fill-in the STEP-Application you have to be registered at ELSA-Online (further information below). You confirm to having filled-in the application correctly.
If you have any special language or legal skills you will be asked to hand in all necesary certificates and attestastions.

How does the application work?

First you can find all available traineeships  here on our websites without being either ELSA-Member or registered at  ELSA-ONLINE. If you want to apply for STEP you primarily need to register at  ELSA-ONLINE. ELSA-Passau e.V. then will confirm your membership. Shall there appear any problems within the registration at  ELSA-ONLINE, please contact your local STEPer, he can surely give assistance.

The procedure of apllication in detail:
First fill in the SAF (Student Application Form) and hand it in to your local STEPer. The SAF you will either find on our websites or will be available from your local STEPer.He also might ask for certain ceritificates or attestations in order to check the accuracy of your statements within the SAF.
Once you are applying for a certain traineeship the STEP-fees have to be paid (further information below).
This is followed up by the so-called "matching-process". At this stage of process your application will be compared with all others handed in by other students. More or less close after the deadline of application you will receive a mail disclosing whether you have been handed through to the potential employer. If you are not matching best or good enough with the desired traineeship, it is still tried to find a suitable traineeship within the other offered traineeships. But you will be informed about this beforehand.

Which costs will rise up?

If you aplly for a certain traineeship after the matching-process, there are will be two fees that have to be paid.
1.) Gerenal STEP-fee:
This fee is to keep STEP running. It is only used for administrative work and costs,  ELSA-ONLINE and the STEP insurance fond. This fee you will have to pay no matter the application being succesful or not.
The General-STEP-fee is 5,- EUR.

2.) Agency fee:
This fee you will only have to pay if your apllication was succesful. It has to be pre-paid but will be paid back in case of a non-succesful application.
This fee is 20,- EUR.

Costs for travelling and accomodation have to be paid by yourself. In general your traineeship, however, will be paid so that you can cover these costs out of the traineeship itself.

How does the traineeship itself work?

Further Information:

•  Vorstand für STEP
•  STEP-Local
•  Available Traineeships

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