The prerequisite for extending your stay is agreement from your directorate of studies and the receiving institution.

The following apply if you wish to extend your stay:

• The minimum duration for an extension is 15 days
• Your stay must be continuous; the extension must follow immediately on the end of the original traineeship period without interruption.
• At the end of the traineeship a confirmation of stay for the entire period must be submitted to the OeAD.
• In the case of compulsory traineeships, at least 3 ECTS credits per month must also be obtained during the period of the extension.

Extensions are limited by the number of Erasmus+ mobility months still available to the student (e.g. if you have already used ten months, you will only be able to extend your traineeship by a maximum of two months).  Whether the OeAD's approves the extension will be determined by the budgetary situation; there is no automatic right to extend the duration of the traineeship.

The application must be submitted via Mobility Online not later than four weeks before the end of the original term of your traineeship. For this follow the workflow steps set out in the section “Extension of stay” (“Verlängerung”) in Mobility Online.

If the application meets the formal criteria and was submitted within the deadline, the nomination for the extension will be submitted to the OeAD. A new agreement will have to be signed for the extension. The procedure following nomination remains the same. Please take note of the information on payment of the grant in the event of an extension of stay.