1. Draxlmaier Group

2. Multinational company Over 39.000 employees all over the world, over 17.000 employees in Romania, over 4.000 employees in Brasov An important suplyer for automotive industry Designing and manufacturing wood and leather interior parts and electrical parts for partners like Dymler Chrysler, BMW, Porsche, Ford, Toyota etc WWW.DRAEXLMAIER.DE

3. SWOT Analyze -Our image -Possible future employees -Reduce costs for integration in the company as new employee -Shape the students through our specific needs -Good collaboration with Transylvania University -Salary costs: -Salary, social taxes, lunch tickets, paid holyday, transport -Training on the job costs -Time, money, space -Possible damages -Short time – not an profitable investment -Financial help provided by the Government – Unemployment Agencies -Programs initiated and supported thought Universities -Developing new projects with students teams -No responsibilities from the students -Lack of financial resources -A inflexible pattern of practice matrix -Bureaucracy in obtaining specific financial funds -Access to important information SW OT

4. Open questions We have the know how and we are working with specific demands. Why do we want to introduce new tasks for practice of the students? How will that affect us? We teach the students CATIA, Power mill and other soft we work with, but how will we protect the internal projects (prototyping, designing etc)? 1 month it's a waste of resources for the company (not profitable for the student, too), in 3 month the student realize what we are doing here and he is able to be a part of a project, 6 month are impossible because of the University courses. Who gain what? Many of the students don't want to be in our company for three month. The immediate goal is to obtain a piece of paper from us. If there would be performances indicators, they could be adjusted to large companies, but there are major differences between multinational enterprises and medium/small or old one. How about the international practice? It is a EU project. Where are the others “E”? We should be involved in all the procedures of this project, because concern us too, not only the Universities. …