Foreign internships

An international internship is an invaluable investment in your own personal development and therefore study trips are fully supported.

Our students go on foreign internships most often within the ERASMUS+ programme or with a grant directly from VŠB-TU Ostrava (more here). And because we know that it is not quite easy to find very similar study programmes, we have recommendations for those interested, based on our students' experience and past mobility. The coordinator of foreign mobility for students of BIOmedical programmes is doc. Ing. Martin Černý, Ph.D.

Completing an internship abroad in any case does not mean that you automatically have to extend your studies. On the contrary, our aim is to help you to choose the appropriate courses and practical internship, thanks to which you will not have to prolong your studies.

Students bring back credits from each internship abroad for completing their courses, which are then recognized based on their similarity to our curriculum and courses. In practice, this means that if, for example, a student takes a course abroad that focuses on medical diagnostic technology, and it is sufficiently similar to a course taught here, the credits earned in this way are recognized and the student no longer has to take the course here.

In addition to a typical study internship, where a student takes courses similar to ours at a foreign university, we also arrange practical internships for our students in research laboratories at partner universities. This kind of mobility is based on long-term contacts with partner universities that are willing to offer us the topic of internship for our students. Our department also offers topics for international students, and therefore, especially in the second half of the summer semester, you can meet international students in our laboratories working on assigned research tasks.

How to apply?

In order to go in the summer semester, you need to start choosing your destination at the beginning of the winter semester. For trips in the winter semester, you need to start preparing at the beginning of the summer semester of the previous academic year. Most mobilities take place in the 2nd year of the Bachelor's degree or in the summer semester of the first year of the follow-up Master's degree.

The internship abroad usually lasts 4-6 months and is supported not only by an Erasmus+ grant but also automatically by a scholarship from our faculty.

If you are interested in studying abroad, or if you are simply interested, please contact Assoc. Ing. Martin Černý, Ph.D., who takes care of foreign mobility for our study programmes in our team. Alternatively, you can also ask the supervisors of your study programmes.

The whole process of going abroad will then also be solved with the faculty Erasmus coordinator Mgr. Jana Bogdová.

For coffee with Erasmus

At the end of September, there is an informal meeting of "BIO" students who have completed an internship abroad with students who might want to go. The meetings are usually attended by international students who have come to intern in our BIO courses. Follow our Facebook page and come and have a Coffee with Erasmus.

How to apply?

Partner universities

For coffee with Erasmus