The Lyon (France) Graduate School of Business (ESCL), an institution widely recognized for its training quality and depended on regionally to train executives in international business, requires two traineeships of students of international business, the first of which is linguistic in nature. ESCL requires its graduates to speak English and one other foreign language (usually German or Spanish, although a rare student will elect Japanese, Italian or Portuguese). The training is in the form of a company internship in a country in which the target language is spoken, a socioeconomic study, or an intensive language course, according to the student's need. Objectives are clearly specified, and the student must present a written report at the traineeship's end. The school has a foreign traineeship committee consisting of the relevant institutional program administrators, student representatives, and other interested faculty and students, to establish and coordinate links with organizations potentially providing traineeships outside France and to create official documents in three languages to help students in their search for practicums. Several exchange agreements have also been established with American universities, but traineeship exchanges have been harder to realize, illustrating the need for an international exchange consortium or clearinghouse. (MSE)