Work placement abroad
Start by familiarising yourself with the placement instructions of your degree programme and proceed to searching for suitable placements. Once you have found interesting positions, agree the contents and practicalities including the timing with your placement contact person from your degree programme.
You can receive grants for work placements abroad, please read more information the process in these pages and if needed, please consult your International Relations Adviser.
Work placement is part of your degree programme and you can follow instructions from your degree programme also for work placements abroad. As a ground rule, you will need to find the placement organisation independently. In case you apply for a placement in one of Metropolia´s partner universities, please follow the student exchange process.
It is advisable to start the process early for a smooth process. For all placements completed abroad, you should draft a Placement Contract (Learning Agreement for Traineeship/Placement, LA), which must be approved by the degree programme and the placement organization before the placement period begins.
Check the general security situation in a country or region you are seeking placements from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' travel bulleting. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not recommend traveling to the planned destination country, the placement is not possible in that country or region.
Things to consider:
- The degree programme must approve the placement, the length, the content and goals of the exchange period
- Please check the general guidelines for work placements from your study filed/degree programme.
- The duration of the placement affects the grants (short placement 2 - 59 days / long-term placement min. 60 days, max. length of the compulsory work placement in the curriculum)
- The placement should be full time and min. 5 credits/month
- Study the visa/residenece permit guidelines for the country in questions and check the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs travel notifications
Preparing the application for placement
- Since your CV and application give the organization the first impression of you it is vital that the content corresponds to local customs. Great attention to grammar and format should be given. A European format of a CV Europass can be helpful.
- Portal for Placements abroad
- You can find student reports from previous work placement in the Portal for Placements abroad Instructions how to search reports:
- Choose Questionnaire: Report for Placement abroad
- Choose correct Faculty and Degree Programme
- Click 'Show all existing questionnaires'
- You can find student reports from previous work placement in the Portal for Placements abroad Instructions how to search reports:
- Examples of organisations where students in health care and social services have are done their placements are collected in an excel list.
- Info for work placements in technology can be found in workspaces. Open placement vacancies offered to Metropolia students are available in OMA general desktop front page in Vacancies.
- Info for work placements in business can be found in the MBS AMMATTIHARJOITTELU - WORK PLACEMENT -workspace and other degree programme workspaces.
- Info for work placements in culture programmes can be in OMA pages.
As soon as you have confirmed the work placement abroad, start filling in the placement contract and grant application. Review also the checklist for smooth process to your placement abroad!