19 Apr Open Call for Paid Internship in the Pan-European Seal Programme through Center for Technology Transfer
Thanks to Center for Technology Transfer initiative on engagement of the University of Belgrade in the Pan-European Seal Professional Traineeship Programme, the University became the member of the Programme. This way, high-achieving young graduates of the University of Belgrade are offered the opportunity to gain over one year paid internship, valuable on-the-job professional work experience in the multicultural environments of the EUIPO and EPO.
The purpose of the Pan-European Seal programme is to spot IP talent early in Europe’s brightest and highest-achieving graduates. Targeting young, aspiring IP professionals, it offers them year-long paid traineeship posts sponsored by the EPO and the EUIPO. Trainees also receive on-the-job coaching from staff, and have access to online training and, if applicable, language courses.
Application procedure consists of two steps:
1. Application to the University of Belgrade
Application deadline is April 25, 2018 at 12 pm on e-mail: ctt@rect.bg.ac.rs
Application needs to include recent CV and motivation letter (up to 1000 characters) in English
The best 10 candidates will be selected and informed via e-mail about further steps until April 26, 2018.
2. The selected candidates need to complete online application here until April 30 (23:59 CET).
Online Application
Candidates can only be considered if their university is a member of the Pan-European Seal Network and if they are included in the University’s shortlist.
Shortlisted candidates are invited to submit their online application including the documents indicated below:
- Motivation letter;
- CV (including the level of languages according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages);
- Diploma indicating the final grade (this can be replaced by a provisional declaration, until final diploma is issued);
- Certificate(s) of completion of the required online course(s) offered by the EPO.
- Introduction to the European patent system (mandatory for all)
- Using Cooperative Patent Classification (mandatory for science and engineering only)
- The EPO as PCT authority (mandatory for all other academic areas)
Requirements
Candidates shall:
- be a national of one of the EPO member states
- hold a bachelor’s/master’s degree in a technical field (i.e. chemical/mechanical/computer engineering, telecom, materials science, electronics, statistics or data analysis);
- have obtained the degree no more than two years prior to the date of application;
- have a very good knowledge of technical English; knowledge of technical German and/or technical French may be required for some technical fields;
- have customer service, organisational and prioritisation skills, communication skills, capacity to analyse problems and find appropriate solutions, ability to work independently as well as within a team, responsibility, professionalism, flexibility and self-initiative, personal integrity, discretion and respect for confidentiality;
- indicate on their CV or in their motivation letter three to five CPC classes or sub-classes in their field of competence (See EspaceNet)
- have completed at least the following two online EPO e-learning courses with certificate: “Introduction to the European patent system” and “Using CPC”
This call will be opened once a year, so if you do not fulfil the requirements this year, you can prepare yourself for the following year.
Selection procedure
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a telephone or video conference interview. Following the interviews, selected candidates will be allocated to the different Office departments. A final decision is expected until the end of June. Selected candidates will be informed on the precise start date in September 2018.
More at: https://www.epo.org/about-us/jobs/vacancies/internships/pan-european-seal.html