Types of Internships

Internships through AIESEC have a duration from 6 weeks to 18 months depending on the type of Internship.

Apart from the latter division of the internships, we divide AIESEC internships into paid and non-paid. In case of PAID internships, you get a salary that covers your expenses for accommodation, food and some pocket money, so you can have a decent living during your internship. In the case of NON-PAID internships, there is an option where you are offered a stipendium, meaning that you do not have to pay for your accommodation and you are given some food during your internship. However, it can also happen that you would have to cover your expenses yourself, however, in this situation we speak about development internships in countries that living expenses are comparing to European prices very cheap - e.g. Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia.

These are the basic types if internships:
 
Management internships - are within the areas of administration, finance, accounting, marketing, project management and HR. These Internships are often with a minimum duration of 4 months and are paid. The largest amount if these internships concern e.g.: Market evaluation and Research, International Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations, Sales, Product Planning , Development and Control, etc. To have and example from our database, please follow the link 

 Technical internships -  are related to engineering as well as management and development within web, software, network and databases. These internships are also often with a minimum duration of 4 months, usually paid. Technical internships are perfect for students that are highly technically specialised in their field. The largest amount of internships are offered in the field of Software development and Programming, Web development, Database Management, but there are also internships within Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. Link to example.

Educational internships - are within the areas of teaching, curriculum development, promotion and counseling in the educational sector. These internships range from 6 weeks up to 18 months, depends on the internship if paid. The vast amount of internships are within field of Linguistics, Introductory and Advanced Education, International Education as well as Social Work. To see the example follow the link Link to example.

Development Internships - are often working for NGOs related to a wide variety of issues in community development such as environmental projects and social issues, taking place in developing countries. These internships vary in length as well as coverage of the living expenses, and the case of a stipendium is very often practised. Development internships are usually closely connected to educational ones and intersect. Development internships create the lagest amount of all the internships in our database; concerning Social Work, Psychology, Training and Development, Sociology, Introductory Education, Counselling and Guidance, Bilingual and Cross-cultural Education. etc. For an example -   Link to example.