Formalisation

 

FORMALISING THE INTERNSHIPS

Contracts / collaboration agreements for formalising internships:

Undergraduate and Master´s Degree:

The internships are regulated according to royal decree 592/2014 of 11 July for external academic internships, where it specifies that internships are formalised through an educational cooperation agreement, which is provided by the university department.

 

Advanced training cycles: dual vocational internship modality

In the Basque Country there is a specific contract that regulates this kind of internship, form 421, which is a labour contract for training and learning.

Additionally, it can be formalised through a grant managed by the university department and that is also provided by the Basque government.

 

Insurance

Obligatory insurance coverage for accidents is guaranteed in Spanish territory.

 

Total cost of the internship:

  • Social security registration
  • There is funding provided directly to the student by the company that is, usually, subject to 2% income tax withholdings.

Undergraduate and Master´s Degree Social Security

  • Curricular and extracurricular internships: RLCE 9939 | cost €9,939/month

Student Funding

  • Recommended: minimum wage (€8.26 gross/hour - €8.09 net/hour)
  • Minimum: €6.43 gross/hour - €6.30 net/hour
  • The legal minimum for the dual vocational internship is the minimum wage.