Internships and training
International internships: Expanding global wine knowledge
GWC portal for students, trainees and companies
From Mainz to San Francisco for eight weeks to help promote the cool Bottle Rock wine festival in Napa Valley? Or from Flonheim to Chile to organize wine tours in Valparaíso?
The global network of the Great Wine Capitals—of which Mainz and Rheinhessen have been members since 2008—makes international exchange easy with its new portal
.
Students majoring in wine business or wine marketing/marketing, as well as trainees in the hospitality, food service, and wine industries, can register on the portal. The same applies to internship providers—that is, wineries, tourism companies, and restaurants from the nine international Great Wine Capitals and their wine regions. The internship portal is designed to help job seekers and employers connect with one another in the future.
What makes it special: The portal is exclusively available to students/trainees and businesses located in these Great Wine Capitals. The cities’ webmasters reserve the right to delete improperly posted offers
and applications.
Interested students and companies can upload their information directly to the portal in a short version. In addition, companies looking for an intern can post their interest in one on this portal.
Education and science in Mainz
With a history spanning more than 500 years, approximately 33,000 students, and 4,150 faculty members, Johannes Gutenberg University serves as the academic hub of the Mainz and Rheinhessen region.
From law and economics to the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, all the way to medicine and music, it covers nearly the entire range of university disciplines. With more than 150 institutes and clinics, the University of Mainz ranks among the ten largest universities in Germany—one of these institutes is the Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, located within Department 10, Biology.
Colleges and Universities in Mainz and Rheinhessen
Together with Johannes Gutenberg University and the Catholic University, Mainz University of Applied Sciences is another of the three public universities in the state capital of Mainz. More than 5,200 students are currently enrolled there in one of the three departments—technology, design, and economics. In addition to the offerings in Mainz, there are also universities in Bingen and Worms.
Scientific institutions for viticulture
In addition, the region is home to the Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück Rural Service Center (DLR). The DLR’s mission is to train young farmers and winemakers, supplemented by an attractive range of advisory and continuing education services on production-related issues in agriculture and viticulture. The office in Oppenheim focuses on viticulture, oenology, and wine marketing.
Just a stone's throw away, on the other side of the Rhine, is Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences. It also enjoys an excellent international reputation as Germany's university for viticulture. Many of the successful winegrowers in Rheinhessen studied here.