Description
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), called OHIM until 23 March 2016, is responsible for granting exclusive rights for the protection of trade marks, designs and models throughout the EU with a single application. In its Strategic Plan 2025, EUIPO also provides traineeships for young graduates and professionals. The offer is structured in four types of traineeships
- 'Pan-European Seal' professional traineeship programme (monthly funding for the 2023-2024 edition: €1,200 in Alicante and €1,300 in Brussels or Luxembourg);
- traineeships for young professionals (monthly funding for the 2023-2024 edition: EUR 1,200 in Alicante and EUR 1,300 in Brussels or Luxembourg)
- traineeships for early-career employees in the field of intellectual property (monthly allowance for the 2023-2024 edition: 1,200€)
- unpaid traineeships (closed).
Regarding the 2023-2024 exercise, only applications are currently open for The Pan-European Seal Traineeship Programme and the Trainee Exchange Programme with a deadline of 31 March 2023.
The Pan-European Seal Youth Programme is dedicated to young graduates, professionals and early-career employees in the field of intellectual property. It offers young graduates the opportunity to gain a unique, first-hand experience of the European Union, and the Office in particular, as well as the chance to put into practice the knowledge acquired during their studies, especially in their specific areas of expertise. It also helps them to understand the objectives and procedures relating to European Union trade marks and the Community design system, as well as infringement of intellectual property rights and issues concerning the enforcement of those rights and combating infringements thereof. The programme is open to young graduates from EU Member States and non-EU countries (limited number):
- who have completed at least the first cycle of a higher education course attested by an official university document before the start of the selection procedure;
- with a working knowledge of one of the five working languages of the Office (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) corresponding to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
- preferably with a good knowledge of another official EU language.
Source: EUIPO
