Intersectoral activities

The employment market, especially within the ICT/engineering domain is global and interdisciplinary and graduates need to be confident when joining this market space to be effective employees, ready to take leadership, apply their knowledge innovatively and have the soft skill to fit within this nonacademic milieu. Preparing students to be effective engineers in this global and interdisciplinary marketplace is an educational aim that can be set up and further developed based initially on the industrial relationships of the current consortium's partners.

One of the priorities of the C-Extended project is intersectorality: it creates opportunities for students to work in companies and collaborates with social enterprises, public administrations, research organizations, and associations/foundations in order to set up the base for research activities, funding scholarships and/or cooperating to the planning and management of doctoral programs.

The project proposes to design and pilot novel intersectoral educational paths allowing European ICT students to acquire strong fundamentals and competences across not only disciplines but also sectors, creating European added value through the cross-sectoral mobility and employability added value through the intersectoral experience.

Within the project students have an opportunity to use of one mobility segment to extend their educational path with an internship either in a company or in a research lab where they can apply their interdisciplinary competences in an inter-sectoral (academia-industry) environment on a real problem. An internship is funded by the project for up to 2 month that dives an opportunity to get a practical experience together with geographical mobility.