Aim of the Internship
The internship allows students to gain relevant work experience to learn how to identify and solve complex problems and helps them in the preparation for their thesis. The internship provides an opportunity for students to get acquainted with the operation of the organization:
- Regarding processes, features and frameworks of professional work and activities of the different departments
- Management information systems, managerial organization, decision making processes on different levels of the company
- Internal and external partnerships, competitors and cooperation with other market players.
Place of Internship
To complete the internship, students can apply to a position at any business or organization that undertake activities relevant to the field of their studies and which have existing positions requiring and employing someone with a higher education degree.
How can you find an Internship?
There are two methods for choosing the place of internship:
- Students may choose from an existing list of organizations with an Internship Agreement, from the Faculty’s database.
- Students can find internship for themselves. The programme leader or the internship coordinator of the Department has to approve the organization and may require references (company profile, brochures, webpage or other materials) that prove the eligibility of the organization for hosting the students.
Duration of Internship
BSc in Business Administration and Management, BSc in Data Science in Business
The duration of the internship is 12 weeks. It can be started after the student acquired at least 156 credit points. The student has to submit a proof of credit points before the internship.
BSc in Tourism and Catering
The internship is two semesters (2×14 weeks) at a tourism or hospitality business, of which one semester can be a practice-oriented part-time training abroad in a higher education institution on the basis of an inter-institutional agreement between two higher education institutions. The Internship I. can be started after the student acquired at least 156 credit points. The student must submit proof of credit points before the internship. If the student does not reach the required number of credits the internship cannot be started.
BSc in International Business Economics
The duration of the internship is 12 continuous weeks in the eighth semester. The internship can only be started if the student has already acquired the Foreign/International internship/experience in the respective major. The programme also requires at least one semester of experience abroad or in an international environment. If the internship was carried out in Hungary, the internship provider has to certify on the Reference and Proof of Performance (Annex 2) form that the language of the work is not Hungarian but a foreign language.
MSc in Marketing
The duration of the internship is 4 weeks. It can be started after the second completed semester.
MSc in Management and Leadership
Internship is not mandatory.
Admission procedure
Application form, Reference and Proof of Performance, Internship report
The compulsory internship is determined by the Educational and Outcome Requirements. Before starting the internship students need to apply for the internship in accordance with the curriculum of the given programme.
1. The application form is available in the Moodle system, under Official Documents -> Documents for Procedures -> Documents for Internship, form title: ‘Application Form for Internship’ The application form must be filled in and signed by the host institution and approved by the programme leader or the internship coordinator of the Department. Students are notified whether their application was accepted or rejected.
2. The host institution should provide an evaluation (Reference and Proof of Performance) regarding the performance of the student.
3. Students are required to submit a written report after completing the internship. The final report should include the description of the activities performed and the assessment of new knowledge gained.
The report and the necessary documents must be submitted to the programme leader by no later than the 3rd week of the following semester.
Ask from Internship coordinators here!
Internship coordinators of the Faculty
Faculty responsible:
Lóránt MEGYERI megyeri.lorant@gtk.uni-pannon.hu
BSc in Business Administration and Management
Dr Zoltán András DÁNIEL daniel.zoltan@gtk.uni-pannon.hu
BSc in International Business Economics
Dr Ildikó NEUMANNÉ VIRÁG virag.ildiko@gtk.uni-pannon.hu
BSc in Tourism and Catering
Dr. Gyöngyi STEINBACHNÉ HAJMÁSY hajmasy.gyongyi@gtk.uni-pannon.hu
BSc in Data Science in Business
Dr Attila Imre KATONA katona.attila@gtk.uni-pannon.hu
MSc in Marketing
Dr Annamária SASNÉ GRÓSZ sasne-grosz.annamaria@gtk.uni-pannon.hu