If your profile is approved, the first thing to do once you are registered into the portal is to look for companies.
However, you can only look for companies once the matching phase starts so you have to wait to be able to see Host Organisations if your profile was accepted before the end of the registration phase.

At the top of your profile page, you will find a button “Search for Host Organisation”, if you click there you will get the list with every company on our database looking for trainees. When you click on a company, you will get every detail about the internship they are offering.

In the Search Hosts Page you can filter the hosts and see their profiles by clicking on their legal names. You can apply some filters such as duration of the internship, language level, etc.

In the Host Page you will find information and details of the Host Organisation.

Once you see one or more Host Organisations that caught your attention you may contact them through email to propose yourself for an interview.

This is an important part of the matching phase as well. Some companies will directly contact you because your profile is interesting to them. In this case, you should answer as quickly as possible (maximum 2 days). During the matching phase, it is important to be reactive and to check your emails often.

You should always answer to Host Organisations, either to give a positive or negative answer. If you are not interested in doing an internship with a company, let them know! The same goes if you got a positive answer from another company and you are no longer looking for an internship, you should let the other companies know that so they can look for other trainees. This will allow other students the opportunity to receive that internship proposal.

To sum up: be reactive and always answer to companies.

When you finally get an interview proposal, prepare the interview in advance so you will get higher chances of getting the internship.
You can find a lot of websites with tips on how to get ready for an interview.

You can find some tips on how to prepare for your interview here.

Please note: An important thing when doing an interview with a foreign company is to check how interviews usually go in the country of the Host Organisation. In fact, the rules and expectations change from one country to another so it’s good to prepare for that.

Once you get a positive answer after an interview you will be able to upload the Letter of Availability into your profile.

Please note: If more than one Host Organisation sent you a Letter of Availability you must upload just one of them on the Portal, the one from the Host Organisation you chose for carrying out your internship. Without any delay inform the Host Organisation you didn’t pick, in order to leave that offer to other students.

If the outcome of your interview is positive, the Host Organisation will send you the “Letter of Availability” via email. You will need to communicate with the Host Organisation to help fill out the availability letter and agree on the contents. If you want to accept the traineeship offered you must print the Letter, sign it and upload it in your personal page in the EU4EU Portal. To do this go to your page and you’ll find the new button “Letters of Availability”.

Here you’ll find the name of the Host Organisation that sent you the Letter of Availability. Sign the Letter and upload it in the “file upload”.

Once uploaded you’ll receive a confirmation message by the page.

Remember that in the event of a balance between two or more candidate trainees, the ranking priority is established based on the order of arrival of the applications. So, the sooner you upload the Letter of Availability, the better chance you have of being awarded the scholarship.

Finally, when you upload the Letter of Availability to your account, your application will be completed. Your profile will no longer be visible to Host Organisations and you will no longer be able to view the profiles of Host Organisations.

The last step is to wait for the results to know if you got the scholarship. This will be held after the end of the Matching Phase.