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Pan-European Seal Programme

– a paid 12-months period traineeship

Want to kick-start your career in an international organisation? Then you should check out the Pan-European Seal Programme.

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Students at LUSEM can apply for a paid 12-months period traineeship in either Alicante or Munich. Photos by Victoria Niezh on Unsplash and Jan-Antonin Kolar on Unsplash.

The Pan-European Seal Young Professionals Programme offers graduates the opportunity to gain valuable on-the-job experience in the multicultural environment of the European Patent Office. Degree students at LUSEM can apply for a paid 12-months period traineeship at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich, Germany or at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain. 

More than 1300 trainees have been welcomed by the EUIPO and the EPO since the inception of the programme. The traineeship allows you to gain valuable professional multicultural work experience and offers a variety of professional placements depending on the profile of the applicant. The internship is offered within the Pan-European Seal, a comprehensive intellectual property programme aimed at bridging academia and the labour market and promoted by two of the world’s largest intellectual property offices – the EUIPO and EPO – together with strategic university partners.

European Union Intellectual Property Office

Pan-European Seal Young Professionals Programme at EPO

Requirements:

EUIPO:

  • Degree/Master in any of the eligible academic areas from LUSEM. If at the time of application, you have not yet received the required degree diploma, please include a transcript of records from Ladok.

EPO: 

  • Nationality of an EPO Member State or Extension State.
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s diploma (or provisional certification) from LUSEM. If at the time of application, you have not yet received the required degree diploma, please include a transcript of records from Ladok.

The application must contain:

  • Your nationality
  • Current CV
  • Motivation letter (also stating which institution, EPO or EUIPO, you are applying to)
  • Transcript of records from your current study programme
  • Documents proving that you meet the requirements listed above

Interested? 

Please send your application to iptrainee [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (iptrainee[at]ehl[dot]lu[dot]se) by 26 February 2024. 

Timeline for 2024 traineeships:

  • 26 February – Deadline for applications
  • 1 March – Shortlist announced by LUSEM 
  • 15 March – Deadline for shortlisted candidates for submitting online application
  • May-July – Interview by EUIPO and EPO
  • 16 September – Traineeship starts

Questions?

Questions can be addressed to Senior lecturer Jonas Ledendal at the Department of Business Law at LUSEM.

Jonas Ledendal 

Contact

Jonas Ledendal
Senior lecturer in Business Law