International projects
Researchers (5)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
18442 |
Darko Bogataj |
|
Technical associate |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
| 2. |
14934 |
PhD Mateja Golež |
Civil engineering |
Researcher |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
| 3. |
34442 |
PhD Mateja Košir |
Materials science and technology |
Head |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
| 4. |
15549 |
Marija Nagode |
Civil engineering |
Technical associate |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
| 5. |
32263 |
PhD Vesna Zalar Serjun |
Geology |
Researcher |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) at the RIS region and especially at West Balkan often
found difficult to fund internship programmes for their students, therefore within many raw material
programmes internship is rated as an extracurricular activity or it is included in the curricula with
minimal involvement of the HEI (for example Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia). Although
European partner countries benefit from Erasmus+ Internship programme, raw materials students
without receiving structured support in their search for hosting company/institution within Europe,
have low chances to succeed in Internship application comparing to other sectors. Lack of structure
within the implementation of internship decreases its positive impact, thus disabling a smooth transfer
of entrepreneurial/business skills and leaving both student and hosting organisation unsure of the
expectations, optimal work organisation, workload, structure and objectives of their collaboration.
RIS Internship project will address this regional challenge and introduce structured internship
mobilities for the benefit of the raw materials students and the organisations of the ESEE region. The
project is based on the successful ADRIA Internship1 programme, running by the Regional Centre
ADRIA for three years for the benefit of the West Balkan countries.
Territorial coverage of the project will increase from West Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia) towards the whole East
European RIS region, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, already in 2022. During the project, about 367 students will
conduct an internship in 300 companies. At current rate of employment of 10% for the interns
participating in the programme, we estimate that about 40 students will remain employed in the industry after their graduation. Train-the-trainer activities focused on 270 industry supervisors will
additionally increase the entrepreneurship/business skills of the interns and broaden University-
Business Cooperation (UBC) activities. The project will encourage employment of the RM graduates
in the local industry and leverage brain drain in the ESEE region.
RIS internship will explore synergy with EIT RM labelled master programmes. A number of months
will be allocated for obligatory internship experience for the students of the EIT RM programmes
EMerald2 and SINReM3, AMIR4 and a number of students from RIS region are going to be recruited
for a semester mobility toward Emerald, SINReM or AMIR. That way RIS Internship programme will
strengthen labeled master programmes and increase the number of RIS students.
Recruitment strategy for businesses and universities, and dissemination strategy towards national
ministries responsible for education, national employments associations, and chambers of commerce
will be emplaced in order to secure the project results as well as the additional funding for postproject
activities.
