Benefits to Students/Interns

Students/interns have chance to benefit from internships by receiving nice experience. Interns often get a unique perspective on their studying specialisation, which can help them in their decision-making process.

An internship can also show interns the relevance of their studies to the world of work, and allow them to get a good start in their field with the possibility of securing a job after graduation. Former interns have a competitive advantage over other candidates since they can use the skills they acquired during the internship.

Interns also have the opportunity to communicate with other people in the same field, which can facilitate transitioning from one job to another. If the internship is paid, it may provide them with additional income to cover some of their expenses.

More supporting / motivating points – what can be done by region, or country

• providing of relevant information and contacts for students to decide for the appropriate internship

• support cooperation of schools and companies to generate optimal system of internships providing best available experiences for interns

• provide grants for interns, which can cover travel expenses in case of transnational internship

Young people are very active in the field of utilisation of ICT (virtual) platforms, but also in case, they have opportunity to join some type of internship (transnational). Especially people from eastern part of EU many times use opportunity to travel to western countries. In positive case, they can see other culture and bring new approaches and techniques to their regions.