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Description
RIS Internship programme
The RIS (Regional Innovation Scheme) Internship project is based on the successful ADRIA Internship1 programme, run by the Regional Centre ADRIA for three years for the benefit of the West Balkan countries. Regional challenges to internship implementation were identified as the lack of structured support for students, host organisations and Public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and uncertain funding opportunities, which resulted in the lack of cooperation between businesses and academia and professional opportunities for students. This project will address the mentioned challenges by introducing structured internship mobilities for the benefit of the raw materials students and the organisations of the ESEE region. Establishing professional collaboration between educational institutions and the industry will help build more market-compliant educational programmes in the future. Besides encouraging international mobility, this project will also facilitate the employment of RM graduates in the local industry and thus reduce the impact of the “brain drain” in the ESEE region.
The RIS Internship programme runs as an approved EIT RM KAVA project from the 1st of January 2022 until the end of 2024.
Presentation topics:
RIS Internship Programme presentation
An online matchmaking platform for internship implementation
RIS Internship Benchmarking results
Current programme achievements
Objectives
The lecture`s objective is to familiarize the students with existing internship opportunities in the RIS region, eligibility criteria, funding opportunities, the number, and type of hosting organisations/open positions for internship implementation, as well as the very process of internship implementation. The call for students is open until 10th November 2023, and in the next year, the call will be opened again from 1st February to 31st October 2024.
Outcomes
Students will get introduced to the overall sustainable and structured RIS Internship Programme for East European RIS and EIT labelled raw materials students, as well as the EIT Raw Materials Strategic Agenda (2021-2027) – main objectives.
Students will gain additional knowledge on how to increase their business/entrepreneurship skills in the scope of programmes` „Train-the-trainer“ and „Train-the-trainee“ activities
