Professional internship

• at least 60 credits must be earned before the professional internship starts
• we recommend starting the internship after the 3rd semester at the earliest

• Business must be upstream, downstream or adjacent to agriculture
• ex-farm processing/marketing operations must generally be independent commercial enterprises for tax purposes
• The internship is usually a full-time internship
• if split into two internships, each internship must last at least 8 weeks
• 8 weeks on a farm can be recognized for internships abroad in a foreign language
• if in doubt, please contact Andreas Kleinlein

We recommend drawing up a contract with the internship company in which the following are regulated

• Period
• working hours
• Remuneration, if applicable

Templates for contracts in various languages can be found further down on the page.

For the professional internship, a person is required to supervise and assess the written work. If the internship is divided into two parts, the scientific paper only has to be written on one part.

• Person is employed at the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences (FB11)
• Person has an official teaching assignment
• Please contact the relevant lecturers as soon as possible (as soon as you have been accepted for the internship). This will give you an initial idea of the direction the internship report can take. Teachers often also offer a personal meeting. The topic can be finalized in consultation with the supervisor at the beginning of the internship.

The application form must be submitted to Andreas Kleinlein before the start of the internship.

Prerequisites:

• Topic of the internship report has been chosen
• Signature of the supervisor is required here
• Should be submitted digitally

• Enjoy the time
• Take a lot of experience with you
• We recommend that you start writing your report during your internship

• consists of a written internship report and a certificate from the training center
• must be submitted to Andreas Kleinlein no later than 3 months after the end of the internship
• Extension of the deadline possible in consultation with the supervisor
• Digital and paper form possible (in consultation with supervisor)
• Submission to Andreas Kleinlein
• If the internship report is submitted digitally, please also send the internship report to the supervisor at the same time

Internship report:

• Fill out the form for the internship database (alternatively: fill out the PDF data sheet) - In case of division, please fill out separately for each part of the internship
• Description of the placement location(s) and their regional references as text (one page) - Must be available for both parts of the internship if split up
• Description of your own activities with an evaluation of your learning success (approx. 1-2 pages) - Must be provided for both parts of the internship if split up
• The activity and company descriptions can be uploaded as an attachment to the form
• In-depth treatment of a problem/question (scientific elaboration with the help of suitable literature, thematically relevant to the internship, approx. 15 pages). This is the actual topic of the thesis. This part is graded. Even if the internship is split up, only one part is required

Internship certificate contains:

• Training company
• Training period
• Training content
• Signature
• If possible, letterhead and/or stamp of the company

A (digital) copy of the certificates is sufficient

• Internship report is forwarded to the supervisor by Andreas Kleinlein
• The supervisor evaluates the written internship report
• Entry of the grade by the Registrar's Office (when all parts of the internship have been completed and the corresponding certificates have been submitted)
• The internship counts for 14 credits and the report for 6 credits
• 5% of the grade is included in the final Bachelor's grade