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Pay and working hours Courses in Ireland
Trainees receive 15% of the basic weekly salary if they are working 40 hours per
week (the legal working week being eight hours per day), being the equivalent of
60% of the minimum salary per month. The gross minimum monthly salary is the With less than 5 million inhabitants and a GDP of 288 billion € in 2016,
equivalent of 355€ (average salary: 794€). Ireland is the archetype of a small, open economy. Taking the improvement in the
performance of all sectors of the economy into account, skill shortages exist in
Practical life the ICTS, engineering, science, the economy and finance, health, construction,
In cultural terms, Hungary combines western European style with eastern office jobs, sales and some specialised trades: chefs, welders, butchers, steel
construction assembly workers and tool manufacture.
European specialities. In Budapest, genuine student life is to be found, with typical
or alternative locations. Name and legal framework
Internship, placement
Language: Hungarian is complex, so it is best to ensure that someone in the Despite its existence, the course does not have a specific legal framework apart
company speaks English, German or French. Cost of living: very reasonable. from that of work. The length of the working week in Ireland may be from 30 to 40
hours.
Cost of living::A trainee will need 330 to 600€ per month to live in Budapest, but A course is part of the structure put in place to combat unemployment among
will save 100 to 220€ if sharing accommodation. For a smaller budget, look for a young people by helping them to acquire new skills (Job Bridge: a national
smaller student city: Debrecen, Pecs, Szeged… programme of courses).
In the face of the increased demand for young people, courses are being developed
Accommodation: allow from 130€ on a campus to 170€ (average cost: 155€). in Ireland under several forms: work placement is a transition between school and
Accommodation in Budapest: the world of work; while an internship or traineeship is more of a training experience
www.budapestrent.com and location-appartement-budapest.com in conjunction with an employer, targeted at acquiring specific expertise. While
most Irish students engage in general studies, courses are more and more often
Tips on finding a course and useful sites proposed from the first stage of higher education onwards.

Half of the course offers are made by word of mouth, so it is better to research
availability in the large cities such as Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc or Duration: in higher education, the duration of training varies from two to six
Pécs. months, unless it is a year's professional experience integrated into the studies. A
tripartite agreement is signed to define the course conditions in terms of duration,
Finding a course: a few websites time and conditions of work as well as its objectives. There are institutions of
o The French-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (lists of higher education which make the approach of proposing courses (work placements)
companies, job offers and requests, CV drafting): www.ccifrance-hongrie.org during any training curricula which lend themselves to it, supported by their
o The Franco-Hungarian Centre for Commerce and Industry: www.framak.eu placement service. The allocation of ECTS in the light of the workload given to
students on courses is the responsibility of the establishment, sometimes after
o www.ambafrance-hu.org/Service-Economique: The Embassy's Economic validation of the course.
Service Certain rules apply:
o A site for posting a CV online: www.cvonline.hu o courses may not exceed half the length of the curriculum
o www.budapestjobs.net/job-type/internship o mandatory courses must be integrated into the curriculum and assessed
o Courses at the BALASSI Institute: www.bbi.hu o institutions of higher education must ensure that the courses correspond to
o Hungarian businesses: www.hongrie.fr/entreprises/index.htm the objective fixed by the training programme
o Placement agencies: www.munka.hu
o Press: www.budapestsun.com - bbj.hu/site - budapesttimes.hu

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