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 Great Wine Capitals, of which Mainz and Rheinhessen have been members since 2008, makes international exchange easy with its
new portal.
Students of wine business or wine marketing/marketing, as well as trainees in the hotel, catering, and wine industries, can register on the portal. The same applies to providers of internships, i.e., wineries, tourism companies, and restaurants from the nine international Great Wine Capitals and their wine regions. The internship portal will then bring together those seeking and those offering internships.
What makes it special is that the portal can only be used by students/trainees and companies belonging to these Great Wine Capital regions. The webmasters of the cities reserve the right to delete any offers
and applications that have been entered unlawfully.
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 over 500 years of history, approximately 33,000 students, and 4,150 scientists, Johannes Gutenberg University is the center of science in the Mainz and Rheinhessen region.
From law and economics to social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, medicine, and music, it covers almost the entire spectrum of university subjects. With more than 150 institutes and clinics, Mainz University is one of the ten largest universities in Germany—one of these institutes is the Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, which is part of Department 10, Biology.
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
The region is also home to the Rural Service Center Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück (DLR). The DLR's mission is to train young farmers and winegrowers, supplemented by an attractive range of consulting 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.