The Student Trainee Exchange Programme Within the framework of the educational cycle of ELSA, professional development of ELSA’s membership is the last step fostered through ELSA’s Student Trainee Exchange Programme (STEP). In the autumn 2019 intake, ELSA provided over 250 STEP vacancies at 170 organisations and in the spring 2020 intake, even despite the COVID-19 crisis, 114 STEP vacancies at nearly 70 organisations.
Petra Schmied STEP Trainee at ELSA International in July 2020
“My online STEP Traineeship with ELSA was certainly different from any of my other traineeships I had done in person before the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to Meeri and the team, I still had the opportunity to do a great internship even during these challenging times. My online STEP Traineeship with ELSA gave me the opportunity to experience working on an important and international project remotely. Through regular communication and evaluation meetings, Meeri and Francesco made sure that I felt supervised and gave me the feeling of being an important part of the project. I had the possibility to improve not only my professional language skills but also my legal and technology skills. I had the chance to take on challenging tasks and thus to grow beyond myself. Moreover, it gave me the opportunity to experience working in a team digitally. All together I learned a lot during these four weeks. I highly recommend seizing the chance and applying for an online STEP Traineeship with ELSA if you can!”
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