Apart from vocational training, the Federal Network Agency also offers traineeships to schoolchildren and students, and offers specialist traineeships and station training within the scope of legal practical professional training.

• Traineeships for schoolchildren
• Traineeships for students, station traineeships
• Specialist traineeships
• General

Two types of traineeships are possible, a "practical traineeship" or an "introductory traineeship". These courses serve as an introduction to the working world in the form of school events for schoolchildren attending specific forms in general-education schools. The content-related prerequisites are met in all technical and non-technical deployment areas at all Federal Network Agency locations. The acceptance possibilities and capacities depend on the staffing situation at the relevant organisational units and are vocationally limited by the Agency's structures and mandates. The traineeship's conditions depend on the relevant school education laws.

The application should comprise the following:

• letter of application (content: desired deployment area and location, envisaged period)
• copy of the last school report
• school's agreement on the execution of a practical traineeship

Traineeships are available to students from universities, high schools and colleges pursuing the following courses of study:

• law (possible traineeship sites: Bonn and Mainz)
• administration and economics (previous traineeship sites: Bonn, Mainz, Berlin and Saarbrücken; upon request, the suitability of other locations will be checked).
• engineering und IT engineering (location: Bonn)

At the Agency's locations Bonn and Mainz it is also possible to partake in station traineeships as part of legal practical professional training.

The traineeships are subject to the following requirements:

• preferential treatment will be given to applications for traineeships which are prescribed by the examination/study rules
• student status remains unchanged during the traineeship
• no periodical payments are made during the traineeship
• accommodation and living costs at the deployment site, insurance rates, etc. are not paid by the Agency

The goal of the traineeships is to deepen the theoretical knowledge gained during the course of study by practical experience.

The application should cover the following:

• application (content: preferred deployment area and location as well as possible alternatives, period envisaged for the traineeship)
• curriculum vitae in tabular form with up-to-data photograph
• school-leaving certificate
• registration certificate from the high school
• traineeship regulations, if applicable
• preliminary diploma, if applicable
• proof of ancillary activities (form)

With its offer of specialist traineeships the Federal Network Agency also supports other educational institutions in the execution of their tasks.

As far as content is concerned, specialist traineeships are possible within the range of tasks carried out by the Agency with a view to qualifying as an office communication specialist. The content is set out in the training section.

The requirements applicable to a traineeship at the Federal Network Agency must be confirmed by the trainee in writing. Prior to the start of the traineeship the relevant specifications are mailed to the deployment location by the competent contact person who also countersigns the traineeship contract.

At the trainee's request, the activities covered by the traineeship are confirmed in form of a traineeship certificate at the end of the course.

To ensure that the traineeship can be adequately planned and organised, and applicants can also be deployed in their particular field of interest, applications should be submitted to the competent contacts person six months before the envisaged period.

Frau Dagmar Zimmer-Boßmann
Federal Network Agency  Bonn
Tulpenfeld 4
55113 Bonn
Federal Republic of Germany

Tel.: 0228/14-9100
e-mail: dagmar.zimmer-bossmann@bnetza