Work Placement… or do you call it stage, internship, work experience, summer placement, year in industry, traineeship…?
Students, employers and tutors are the three major stakeholders in organised work placements. For each of the stakeholders EMPLOI endeavours to offer as much support as possible.
Thanks to work placements academic disciplines and practical application can be interrelated, and key skills practised and developed.
Work placements:- facilitate quality of learning from work experience;
- prepare students for effective transition into the workplace;
- develop links between HEI and the field of action;
- improve students employability;
- give employers an opportunity to view students in terms of employment opportunities;
Generally work placements can be arranged in the framework of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). The ERASMUS student mobility for placements action (SMP) enables students at higher education institutions to spend a placement period between 3 months and 12 months in an enterprise or organisation in another participating European country. The ERASMUS student placements will demonstrably contribute to developing the students' personal and professional competences, including languages and intercultural competence.
The Leonardo da Vinci programme links policy to practice in the field of vocational education and training (VET). Projects range from those giving individuals the chance to improve their competences, knowledge and skills through a period abroad, to Europe-wide co-operation between training organisations.
Work placements can also be arranged in the context of: education institutions, as in cooperative education;
- international networks and organisations such as:
- Leveraging Education into organisations (LEO-NET)
- Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (AIESEC)
- The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE)
- Europlacement
- European University Enterprise Network (EUE-NET)
- Quality Placements network (QPLaNet)
- Portal on Learning Opportunities throughout the European Space (PLOTEUS).
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)
- Network for the Development of Business Education Programmes (BUSINET)
- The European Network for Business Studies and Languages (SPACE)
- The European Mobility Programme for Transnational Placements (transit)
- Globalplacement
- Work Based Learning in Action (Framework)
- The European Network of National Resources Centres for Vocational Guidance (euro/guidance)
- Euronaver
- European Network of Competencies for International Placements (EUNEXT)