Does a no paid internship need a work permit?

Malta does not work by email, call them.

I have called them at least 10 times. Every time I need explain to her the situation but she  said I need to keep waiting. She said she know nothing about it...

Better call identity malta here in malta rather than the embassy.

https://identitymalta.com/citizenships-expatriates/

Thanks for your quick reply! Actually that is  the web page I used. I sent email to eresident department as well as central visa unit.

Erin Liu wrote:

Thanks for your quick reply! Actually that is  the web page I used. I sent email to eresident department as well as central visa unit.

And when you call them they say they don't know?

I started to contact them around 20th October, the latest contact is at yesterday morning. The lady who picked the phone said she was not familiar with apply procedure. She asked me for my email account and said will give me a reply later (that was  what she did every time when I contacted them). Unfortunately, there is never a reply after calling them.

Since you have Netherland Residence Permit as a Student and the internship (unpaid) is part of your study program, meaning therefore, that there is an agreement with your university in Netherland and the company you are to be engaged in Malta, then in that case, the latest EU directives on mobility for non EU students within the EU should apply: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2016/801/oj  (Directives 2016/801).

Article 31 thereof

Mobility of students

1.   Students who hold a valid authorisation issued by the first Member State and who are covered by a Union or multilateral programme that comprises mobility measures or by an agreement between two or more higher education institutions shall be entitled to enter and stay in order to carry out part of their studies in a higher education institution in one or several second Member States for a period up to 360 days per Member State subject to the conditions laid down in paragraphs 2 to 10.

A student who is not covered by a Union or multilateral programme that comprises mobility measures or by an agreement between two or more higher education institutions shall submit an application for an authorisation to enter and stay in a second Member State in order to carry out part of the studies in a higher education institution in accordance with Articles 7 and 11.



Note: It is important you know your rights according to the EU law even if it not properly applied in any host country..

Rotunda sinensis sums it up perfectly.
Don't expect the host country to properly apply EU legislation. Know your rights! You'll probably be teaching them, in this case Malta, how the legislation applies. Happened to me and many others. Good luck!

I know someone in a similar situation to you who has just started an internship. He is a non-EU student, at university in France, with a three year Schengen visa. He had no problem getting in to Malta.