Erasmus Traineeship
Every year the School of Humanities welcomes a number of foreign students, the majority from our partner universities, to do their Erasmus traineeship with us.
Most of the incoming trainees work as assistant language teachers, helping to conduct classes, providing extra tuition for some students on an individual basis, arranging extra-curricular activities etc. The trainees are either native speakers of the language they wish to teach or have at least C1 level in the language.
Other traineeship options are available (helping staff to manage seminar groups etc).
If interested in our traineeship options, please fill in the form available on the university homepage. You must take into consideration the following:
- the deadlines and application requirements for traineeship at your home university;
- the teaching related traineeship is only available during our term times (for specific dates please consult our academic calendar).
Traineeship offers for academic year 2019/2020
Autumn 2019
Language levels taught during the term |
Languages taught |
Language requirements for a trainee |
Other information |
A1, B1.1, B2.1, C1.1 |
French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, English, German, Russian, Swedish |
Native speaker of the language or at least C1 level; English at least B2 for general communication purposes |
Some previous teaching experience or teacher training would be useful |
Spring 2020
Language levels taught during the term |
Languages taught |
Language requirements for a trainee |
Other information |
A2, B1.2, B2.2, C1.2 |
French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, English, German, Russian, Swedish |
Native speaker of the language or at least C1 level; English at least B2 for general communication purposes |
Some previous teaching experience or teacher training would be useful |
For any language we cannot accept more than two trainees at a time.
We prefer trainees who can participate for a full academic year or a full semester. If a shorter period of traineeship is required we prefer candidates who can start their traineeship at the beginning of a semester to those who wish to start during a semester. Please indicate in your correspondence if you have done some teacher training or have some prior experience of teaching.
Trainees wishing to participate in teaching languages of Asian Studies should contact us for further details.
For Academic writing in English, trainees wishing to assist the lecturers should be either native speakers or have at least C.2 in English. Candidates doing their MA (preferably of English teacher) or teacher training graduates are preferred.
If you are looking for a different type of traineeship, please contact our good partner the
International House of Estonia