The Siegen model for professional internships
The Siegen model for the professional field internship (BFP) is designed to enable student teachers to gain extracurricular (professional) experience and reflect on their choice of profession and subject. To this end, we accompany you during your internship or, as a special feature of Siegen, during an equivalent professional/voluntary activity that you have already carried out.
Information events
The dates of the information events for the professional internship can be found in unisono.
Regular BFP
- Extracurricular exploration of another professional field
- in the 3rd or 4th semester: The aptitude and orientation internship must be completed.
- as a four-week block internship or during the semester (at least 20 days)
- 180 hours workload (150 hours practical phase, 30 hours study)
- also possible abroad or in cooperation projects
Recognition options
Recognition of equivalent activities for the BFP is possible, e.g:
- Type 1: state vocational training or comparable internships in other degree programs or at other universities; omission of the accompanying course
- Type 2: Voluntary social/ecological year, federal voluntary service, military service; omission of the first part of the accompanying course
- Type 3: Accompanying the equivalent professional/voluntary activity already carried out, provided that at least 120 hours of work are proven when registering for the BFP and at least 30 hours are completed between the two dates of the accompanying event
Procedure:
- Recognition types 1 and 2: Follow the "Assessment guide with information on the necessary documents and responsible contact persons".
- Recognitions type 3: You will find instructions and the forms in the open Moodle course BFP forms Recognitions type 3 (voluntary/professional) Fak. II from 01.04.2026
- In all cases, please send your completed documents/forms to praxisphasen@zlb.uni-siegen.de.
Contacts
- Registration for the BFP and accompanying events: Unisono
- Requests for recognition: ZLB, praxisphasen@zlb.uni-siegen.de
- Contact person for Schools II and questions about accompanying events: iris.bunte@uni-siegen.de
