IES Internships Vienna

Name: IES Internships Vienna
Brand: IES Abroad
SKU: 235422
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Location

Austria
- Vienna

Length

8 weeks

Industry

Business History International Relations Psychology Social Work Startups Technology

Need-based funding, Merit-based funding, General grants/scholarships, BIPOC funding

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Compensation

Non-Monetary Benefits

Timeframe

Summer

Housing

Apartment

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What's Included

Accommodation Some Activities Some Meals Wifi

What's Not Included

Airfare Visa

Last Updated: Nov 27, 2023

Last Reviewed: Sep 17, 2019

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About Program

As an IES intern, you’ll enjoy the history, rich culture, and professional opportunities that the political and economic capital of Austria has to offer. Recently ranked first in the Mercer Quality of Living survey, there’s nowhere better to have an international internship abroad than in Vienna.

Our program guarantees you an internship in Austria that will help you develop professional skills to jump-start your career and make you more attractive to employers in today’s competitive job market. Work approximately 30 hours per week at a local business or organization with a placement in fields such as the arts, international relations, psychology, and more. In your free time visit the beautiful Schönbrunn Palace, attend an opera, or go for a day trip to the nearby lake village of Hallstatt for some photo ops.

All this and more await you in Vienna!

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Diversity & Inclusion

LGBTQIA+ Support

Today, and every day, we celebrate who you are and who you will become. We take pride in simply getting to know you, and look forward to adventuring through this incredible world with you.

Studying abroad as part of the LGBTQIA+ community can present unique opportunities and challenges in exploring a new culture, so we have compiled resources on sexual orientation, gender identity, and allyship to help prepare you and support you along the way.

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Neurodivergent Support

Going abroad, whether this is your first time or your umpteenth, can be a trip both literally and figuratively. Seeing something new or being someplace unfamiliar has its own challenges, especially when it comes to mental health and physical accessibility. With IES Abroad, you won't handle these concerns on your own.

We have not only compiled resources on mental health, physical health, and self-care to help prepare you and support you along the way, but we also have a dedicated Student Affairs staff that are available for you to contact from the United States and once in your host country.

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Impact

Sustainability

As part of IES Abroad's Global Good Commitment, IES Abroad employs sustainability measures in the following ways:
-Moving toward more sustainable Headquarters and Centers abroad
-Producing printed materials mindfully
-Hosting events and conferences in LEED-certified buildings
-Purchasing carbon offsets for staff air travel
-The formation of the IES Abroad Sustainability Team - a dedicated group of volunteers responsible for implementing sustainable practices across our organization. The team comprises of members across our Centers, departments, teams. It is truly a global effort, and we are better for it.

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Program Highlights

Gain credit while you intern in Vienna
Add on an optional German course to help you make the most of your time in Austria
Build your international network with professional connections and new friends
Explore Vienna, Austria, and nearby locations through personal travel and IES Internships field trips and events
Boost your resume with an international internship through a top-ranked provider

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IES Internships Vienna Summer – Internship

Work approximately 30 hours per week in your guaranteed internship placement. Past placement examples include: a composite-materials manufacturing company that builds snowboards, a chatbot tech startup, and an animal welfare research firm. You'll also enroll in a required 3- or 6-credit academic internship seminar with other IES interns, where you’ll gain context for your internship placement. You can also take a 3-credit German language course at no extra cost if your work schedule allows.

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Getting out of the U.S. to live, work, and play in a new country is an incredibly valuable experience. And, as a musician, there are few better places to jump headfirst into other than Vienna. IES Abroad did a nice job of easing us into the culture and the city, but did not hold our hands too much. Our time there was largely our own to spend as we please. I enjoyed taking German classes with a wonderful teacher that IES selected, and some of my favorite memories were exploring the city as a "class".

As an intern, what you get out of your work experience is what you choose to take from it. I wasn't in the most ideal situation, coming into Vienna without an internship placement, but the staff with IES did a great job of facilitating an interview and getting me into the workplace as fast as possible.

If you did this all over again, what's one thing you would change?

If I did this again, I wish I had a little more freedom to pick and choose what business I wanted to work for. Now that my requirement for an arts administration internship is done, I'd like to pick a workplace that I really could sink my teeth into and make a difference in.

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Questions & Answers

Alumni Interviews

These are in-depth Q&A sessions with verified alumni.

Why did you choose this program?

Bottom line, I needed an internship to graduate.

I knew this before I even declared my Arts Entrepreneurship degree, but I'd been avoiding trying to find one until the beginning of the Fall 2018 semester. Just about every internship I could find then was not paid, not relevant, or not feasible. At about the same time, though, IES announced a new internship program in Vienna. Vienna is a fantastic city for music - so much of what we play today originates from composers and musicians in Vienna hundreds of years ago. So, interning in Vienna, fulfilling my Arts Entrepreneurship intern requirement, and experiencing an unrivaled music culture - it was an opportunity hard to turn down.

What did your program provider (or university) assist you with, and what did you have to organize on your own?

IES Vienna facilitated just about everything for us prior to the program start, from finding our employer, scheduling an interview, placing us in an apartment, and including rent costs in our tuition. We did, obviously, have to coordinate our own travel to Vienna. And once we started working, we were largely on our own. We found our way to work by ourselves and spent most of the day supervised just by our employers, not IES.

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What is one piece of advice you'd give to someone going on your program?

Vienna is a great place to travel from. I wish I took advantage of that more. You can get extremely cheap bus tickets to tons of great locations, and cheap plane tickets to just about anywhere in Europe. I would tell myself to not be afraid, and just dive headfirst into making memories and experiencing the widely varied cultures of Europe - it's an opportunity I likely won't have again.

What does an average day/week look like as a participant of this program?

It's really hard to tell - everyone's job is unique to their field of study, so everyone's time at work is a bit different too. The general idea of the program is that you should spend about 32 hours working a week. For some people, that means working Monday through Thursday, 8 hours a day. For me, that sometimes meant working 4 hours Monday, 4 hours Tuesday, then spending all day Saturday and Sunday traveling with my orchestra for a handful of performances.

Going into your experience abroad, what was your biggest fear, and how did you overcome it? How did your views on the issue change?

My biggest fear was being stuck in a country without an effective way to communicate with the people around me. Now, a lot of people in Vienna speak English, but there's something extremely disassociative about not being able to speak the local language fluently when you are living there for months. You feel like an outsider like you don't belong. Honestly, I can't say I totally overcame it.

As time went on, I was more comfortable speaking German, and there were certainly situations that I felt confident speaking in the local language. However, I was far from fluent, and it was hard to shake that imposter syndrome.

If you were to study abroad again, where would you go?

I would love to go back to Vienna. There's still so much of that city that I haven't experienced, and there are so many opportunities I missed out on to travel and see the rest of Europe. I'd love to get hands-on with another company, music or not, and work with them to make them flourish. And I'd love to learn a bit more German and go back when I'm comfortable speaking the language more regularly.

About IES Abroad

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