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Administration/ Paperless Office

The Administration/ Paperless Office Internship builds skills in documenting and optimising office processes, managing data and documents, and creating automated, professional business materials. It also covers business communication in English, database creation, cost calculation, networked office solutions, and professional online presence.

Course Duration: 3 Weeks

Projekt Korrekt e.V. – host organisation for Erasmus KA1 projects

As a host organisation, Projekt Korrekt e.V. welcomes participants from all European countries. In the last 25 years we have gained experience from more than 1500 projects in different professional fields.

We develop model projects in the framework of Erasmus and ESF, also in cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises in the region of Leipzig and Halle.

We support the mobility of participants in the European Community and the communication between people from all over Europe.

Our project proposal for your stay in Germany:

Title:                  Administration – „Paperless Office“

Duration: 3 weeks

Learning outcomes common to all professions:

  • Health and safety at work – observes health and safety rules and SOPs
  • Professionally oriented foreign language – improved ability to use a foreign language (English/German) in the execution of tasks and the ability to formulate short and comprehensible statements to communicate in the workplace
  • Personal and social competences – develops a culturally and ethically sound approach to working with others in a company, increased creativity and consistency in their actions, copes with stress, responsibility and assigned tasks
  • Organisation of work in small teams – increased ability to communicate and work collaboratively with colleagues, organise work in a team

Learning outcomes in the field of Administration – „Paperless Office“: 

The student learns/knows

  • How office work processes are documented, analysed and reorganised
  • How data and text can be recorded, prepared and designed
  • How to deal with business correspondence and how to create standard documents
  • How to evaluate, analyse and present text in English and what to consider when communicating with foreign-language business partners
  • What has to be taken into account in personnel management
  • Which criteria have to be observed when furnishing offices and meeting rooms
  • How to plan, implement and evaluate projects

General tasks

The student develops their understanding of:

  • Creating simple and complex databases
  • The rules for keeping technical documentation
  • Office solutions in the network
  • Calculating costs
  • Creating professional internet profiles
  • Creating automatised documents

Placement: Projekt Korrekt e.V. in Leipzig, to be carried out at the premises of Gut Wehlitz, Schkeuditz

All the above and below mentioned modules can be seen as examples. It’s possible that we have to modify or adapt them due to the abilities of the participants or the capacities of the host company. The tasks and the activities vary and depend on the practical and the linguistic skills of the beneficiaries and on the needs and business volume of the companies.