Internships – Traineeship in the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) – Slovenia

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (hereinafter referred to as “ACER”) is a European Union (“EU”) body, legally established by Regulation (EU) No 2019/9421 and operational since 2011. ACER is central to the integration and well-functioning of the EU’s electricity and natural gas markets.

Our overall purpose is achieving a transition of the European energy system in line with the political objectives set, reaping benefits of increased energy market integration across Europe, and securing lowcarbon supply at least possible cost for European businesses and citizens.

The Traineeship Programme is mainly targeted to young university graduates, without excluding those who, in the framework of lifelong learning, have recently obtained a university degree and are at the beginning of a new professional career.

The Agency offers traineeship positions in all its seven Departments and in the Strategy Delivery & Communications team, and Human Resources and Facilities team.

The traineeship period starts on 1 March and on 1 September each year and run for a fixed period of six months.

Requirements:

To be admitted to the Traineeship Programme, applicants shall, by the starting date of a specific traineeship period:

a) Be 18 years of age or older;
b) Be nationals of a Member State of the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Lichenstein;
c) Have language skills at level C1 for the first language (thorough knowledge) and at level B2 for the second language (satisfactory knowledge) of the official languages of the European Union or Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, these levels being defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), or
d) Subject to availability of resources and ACER’s capacity to host them, be nationals of nonMember States of the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and have thorough knowledge at level C1 of their first language, and, as the internal working language of ACER is English, have language skills of English at level equivalent to B2 (satisfactory knowledge), these levels being defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (‘CEFR’), and
e) Have a level of education which corresponds to a completed undergraduate studies attested by a diploma, when the normal period of university education is three years as a minimum.

Benefits:

For the Traineeship Programme related to this call for expression of interest, the monthly grant is set at the 25 % of the basic salary of a Temporary Staff member in grade AD 5 step 1 corrected to country correction coefficient.

More information: ACER