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Internship

Second internships: offers still available on the 1jeune1solution platform

Publié le 26 mars 2024 - Mise à jour le 12 juin 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

From June 17 to 28, 2024, it is mandatory for second-level students and technologists to take part in an observation period within a company, administration or association. Those who do not currently have an internship can still find one by consulting the offers available on the 1jeune1solution website.

This is a novelty of the 2023-2024 school year: all secondary and technological students, attending public and private schools under contract, must complete a observation period. This can take place in:

a company;
an association;
an administration;
a public institution;
a territorial community.

At the 1jeune1solution site, second-graders have had access since 25 March 2024 internship offers specifically aimed at them. Students can search for an internship based on the trade or professional field they want to discover, as well as the city in which they live, and apply directly online. Each offer includes:

a description of the activities carried out during the training period;
timetables;
the number of trainees that can be accommodated.

Please note

students who are unable to find an organization to accommodate them will have to go to their high school, during the two weeks scheduled for the internship; they will then be given websites on which to find information relating to professional environments. They will also need to conduct desk research to refine or refine their guidance plans.

How is the internship for second-graders going?

The observation period for secondary school students may take the form of:

two weeks within the same structure;
twice a week in two different structures.

Regardless of the format chosen, the internship must take place between 17 and 28 june 2024.

For each pupil, a traineeship agreement shall specify in particular:

reception conditions;
planned activities;
the powers referred to.

The course may be carried out abroad provided that the school-going institution meets the prescribed conditions, in particular:

be able to make pupils aware of a technological, economic and professional environment;
enable it to develop its sense of commitment and initiative;
represent an opportunity for the high school student to specify his school and career guidance project.

This course may not be limited to observation. A secondary school student may thus take part in certain activities of the company or body, provided that this is specified in the traineeship agreement and is supervised by a supervisor of the host institution. High schools should monitor their students to ensure that the tasks assigned to them do not endanger them and are in accordance with the internship agreement.

Please note

High schools can ask their students to write an internship report.

FYI

The fact of carrying out an internship in July and/or August (intensive language internship carried out in France or abroad; Bafa practical internship; internship within an institution...), as well as the fact of exercising a summer job, do not exempt you from performing the second observation internship.

The only general and technological second-level students not allowed to complete the observation period are:

Second-graders in the hotel and restaurant technology series (STHR), who must already complete a 4-week introductory or application course as part of their initial training;
Pupils participating in a cohesion stay or a mission of general interest under the National Universal Service (SNU) in June or July;
pupils who carry out, in June, a European and international mobility of at least 2 weeks duration, accompanied by a study contract.

Students taking part in a school trip for one of the two weeks scheduled for the second observation period must still complete the trip for the remaining week. If the school trip covers the entire period of the observation period, the second-general and technological pupils taking part in it are then exempted from this sequence of observation in a professional environment.