Career opportunities

Working at the ECML

Vacancies for jobs at the European Centre for Modern Languages will be advertised on the Council of Europe's website.

Traineeships

The ECML offers traineeships twice a year for recent graduates with an excellent command of at least one of the working languages of the Council of Europe (English and French) and, ideally, a good knowledge of the other. Some knowledge of other languages would be an advantage. Traineeships last 6 months (January to June or July to December).

Deadlines for application : 30 March for the traineeship starting July and 30 September for the traineeship starting in January

There are three areas in which you can do a traineeship:

• Website:
  the web trainee assists the webmaster and participates in the development of the web site of the ECML, is responsible for follow-up tasks, for checking on accuracy and for updating of information
  
• Programme:
  the programme trainee assists the programme team and is responsible for tasks closely related to the day-to-day running of the programme of activities
  
• Documentation and Resource Centre:
  the Resource centre trainee assists the Documentalist and participates in daily activities linked with documentation and information requests, dissemination work and cataloguing.
  
• Administration and Finances
  (only one traineeship session a year from September to February):
  the Administration trainee assists the Administration team and proceeds financial documents, works with different database and prepares the documents and reimbursement forms related to the workshops.

All trainees will also support the programme team by completing general tasks within the framework of programme events (workshops and meetings).

Please consult the traineeship webpages for more details.