PROJECT WORKS AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR INTERNSHIPS Diener Francine, Vo Trung Hung, Nguonphan Pheakdey

OUTLINE Introduction What is an “alternative internship”? Process Challenge or Difficulties Discussion Conclusion 2 Home Company Host

INTRODUCTION Context: letter of EACEA 3

INTRODUCTION 4 Student mobility may include a placement (<=3 months) in the same country of the hosting HEIs partners 1 It’s preceded by a minimum period of study abroad of 6 months 2 It’s recognised as an integral part of the students’ programme 3 The placement should be agreed by all partners concerned 4

INTRODUCTION Context: – available MOs for courses (Learning Agreemnt) – available MOs for research in lab (research projects proposed by professors) But not available MOs for internship in enterprise not MOs intergrated research and internship – Should pay the tax if the internship in a company more than 6 months (European rule) 5

ALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIPALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIP An “internship” included a period at the university and other one at the company The possibility to do research for a company instead of attanding only lecture 6 University Company

ALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIPALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIP Model 1 7 Propose problems APU Lecture EPU Lecture Propose Project Work APU StudentEPU Student Solve problems

ALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIPALTERNATIVE INTERNSHIP Model 2 8 Propose problems APU Lecture EPU Lecture Propose Project Work EPU Student Solve problems 6 months 3 months

THE PROCESSTHE PROCESS 9 Company proposes the problemLectures propose the Project Work Step 1 Select studentsPublic to the website as MO Step 2 Working at home university Working at company Working at host university Step 3 Plan and overview Research results Reports

CHALLENGES How to identify the problems from companies? How to define a project work in cooperation between home lecture, host lecture, and staff of company? How to find good students? How to organize the “interships in pair”? … Disscusion 10

CONCLUSION Project work as an alternative for internships is very good to improve the link between companies and universities in term of research is very useful for the sudents at any level undergraduate, master, doctoral, and postdoc is promotive by EACEA but is a hard work !!! 11

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