Meet Your Future

Various profiles serving Europe

This major event of the project “Conferences and debates” gathered about a hundred participants. It enabled students to meet alumni from the degree Applied Foreign Languages (LEA) of the University of Strasbourg:

•         Jeanne Bisch, Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament
•         Ivaylo Petrov, Assistant to the Registry at the Court of Justice of the European Union
•         Jeannine Uysal, Human Resources Advisor to the Council of Europe

The three speakers presented the skills developed during their LEA training and their subsequent experiences.

A rich and professionalising cultural training

The LEA degree has provided these professionals with many skills and qualities that are essential to their current profession, including:

•         the understanding of foreign cultures
•         proficiency in several languages
•         adaptability

Internships in European institutions

There are official programmes in each institution, such as the Schuman traineeships of the European Parliament. These internships are usually five months long and can sometimes be paid. You can either work as a translator, an interpreter or an assistant. You can register online on the website of the institution in question. To be eligible for these internships, you must meet certain conditions, firstly to hold a bachelor’s degree or to be bilingual.

Completing an internship is a good way to get access to a job in these institutions, but it is also possible to go through competitive exams.

For further information, you can read the PDF report of the conference.