Apprenticeship placements for junior professionals
Article 13
1. Candidate volunteers who are junior professionals may be required, in addition to the training, to undertake an apprenticeship placement with a sending organisation to learn through experience the procedures, ethics and context of humanitarian work and further prepare for the envisaged deployment as an EU Aid Volunteer. The duration of the apprenticeship shall be for a maximum period of up to six months with a possibility for limited prolongation in duly justified exceptional cases. 2. The sending organisation, in consultation with the hosting organisation and the apprentice volunteer, shall review and update the learning needs in the learning and development plan based on the needs of the apprenticeship placement. The learning and development plan shall define in particular: (a) The learning outcomes the apprentice volunteer is expected to achieve during their apprenticeship period; (b) The tasks the apprentice volunteer will carry out as part of the learning process and resources to be put in place; (c) The objectives and results the apprentice volunteer is expected to achieve on completion of the apprenticeship period. 3. The following articles of this Regulation shall apply mutatis mutandis to the apprenticeship placements with obligations for the sending organisations hosting the apprentice volunteers: (a) Article 19(4), (5), (6) and (9), Articles 21 and 22. (b) Article 24 except for paragraph 5. Candidate volunteers coming from EU countries or from third countries referred to in Article 23(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 under the conditions referred to in that Article who are covered by their national social security or insurance scheme in the country of their residence and who are undertaking apprenticeship placements in the above-mentioned countries shall receive only complementary coverage. This means that their insurance coverage shall be limited to costs over and above the coverage provided by the national social security or insurance scheme. In exceptionally justified cases, where the national social security or insurance scheme covers only part or none of the costs provided for in Article 24(5), 100 % of the costs incurred shall be covered. (c) Article 25 except for paragraph 6 Article 26 and Article 27(1), where relevant. (d) Article 28(1), (8) and (14) and Article 30(1), (4), (5), (6) and (7).