University departments play an important role in IAESTE by both promoting the programme to their students and offering placements to foreign trainees.

What are the benefits to your department?

Through the IAESTE exchange programme, students may secure paid course-related training abroad, usually for periods of up to 12 weeks in the summer months.

Work experience gained abroad has the added value of enhancing students’ independence, flexibility, communication and foreign language skills and contributes to their personal and academic development.

Many departments use IAESTE participation as a means of supporting departmental strategies to deliver high quality learning experiences to students. Returning IAESTE trainees often use their experience to good effect towards assessed course work and final year projects. They also have a renewed enthusiasm to their studies and a sense of focus.

The programme further encourages participants to maximise the learning and career skills gained through an annual competition, the IAESTE UK Trainee of the Year Award.

Due to the reciprocal nature of the programme, for every UK student sent abroad an equivalent placement has to be arranged for a foreign trainee in the UK. Universities currently provide circa 40% of the placements in the UK and are instrumental in developing new employer contacts in industry.

As well as providing hand-picked highly motivated trainees, IAESTE placements are a stepping stone to recruiting PhD candidates from abroad.

Download the following information and training form if you wish to proceed further:

			Full Academic Staff Information (pdf, 123KB)
			University Offer of Training Form (pdf, 92.4KB)