The European External Action Service (EEAS) is the European Union’s diplomatic service. It helps the EU’s foreign affairs chief, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to carry out the Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Who can apply

Traineeships are offered under 4 different pillars:

1. funded traineeship for young graduates with less than one year of professional experience
2. unfunded compulsory traineeship for students already residing and studying in the host country
3. traineeship for students of national administration schools of Member States
4. traineeship for trainee civil servants of an administration in a Member State as part of their compulsory professional training

Depending on a specific pillar, the traineeships are open to EU citizens, citizens from candidate countries that have concluded EU accession negotiations, nationals of the host country:

• for funded traineeships, applicants must have graduated from a university or equivalent higher-education establishment with at least a Bachelor’s level, while for unfunded compulsory traineeships, applicants shall be 3rd, 4th or 5th year students of a University or another higher-education establishment
• candidates must have the capacity to speak in the working language of the EU Delegation;
• applications will not be accepted from candidates who have already benefited from any kind of training (paid or unpaid) or employment for more than 6 weeks within an EU institution, body, agency or office

Conditions

• the duration of a traineeship ranges from 1 month (3 months for trainee civil servants) to 6 months;
• except for the unfunded student traineeships, the trainees receive at least 25% of the Local Agent Group I salary.

Current vacancies are available here.

Read more here.