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Lifelong learning program ``International Internship AGORA - I2AGORA''

no. 511784-LLP-1-2010-1-HU-KA4KA4MP

The main objective of the I2AGORA project is to open up a synergistic potential between EU projects that have focused on this challenging field. Questioning, systematizing and synthesizing previously implemented and running relevant projects will follow a 3 * 3 dimensional approach - a "Magic Cube" of virtual internship programs.

PROJECT FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The universities of the 21st century are put in a position to reconsider their relationship with the economic environment, both regionally and globally. Practical placement can act as an important pillar of it as well as a multifunctional tool for improving the employability of graduates. While course delivery flexibility and physical/virtual mobility have been quite in the spotlight, leading to widely available best practice cases/guidance, on the other hand, much less attention has been directed towards improving flexibility and the internationalization of these practices.

"Magic Cube" involves:

  • Vertical dimensions – internship periods, in chronological order, (pre-, implementation and post-internship activities)
  • Horizontal dimensions – pedagogical models, technological tools and methodological models, as elements of the "educational" approach
  • layers of actors / stakeholders: students, universities, enterprises and intermediaries / multipliers
  • Special pilot programs "Internship 2.0" will be announced and managed by partners - students from all over the EU who will be involved in different development activities.

Special pilot programs "Internship 2.0" will be announced and managed by partners - students from all over the EU who will be involved in different development activities.

I2 AGORA delivered:

(1) an in-house bilingual concierge-as a single point of access to virtual internship projects, orientations, etc.

(2) IdeAgora – a web-based meeting point for the exchange of ideas and solutions within the community of practice

(3) versatile support in using the modern, ICT-based work environment from all stakeholders,

(4) a multiplication of the impact through "Employability Clinics" - events with proven effect;

(5) a comparison of conventional placement assumptions with flexible models, leading to recommendations for European policy.

 

 

PROJECT DATA

Director

Dr. Eng. Diana ANDONE

Period

2011-2012

Value

59,201 EUROS

States

Prof. Dr. Eng. Radu VASIU, Lect.dr.eng. Marian BUCOS, Lect.dr.eng. Mugur MOCOFAN, Assistant Dr. Eng. Mihai ONITA, Dr. Eng. Andrei TERNAUCIUC, Dr. Eng. Yasmina ERMALAI, Eng. Bogdan DRĂGULESCU - PhD student, Tatiana TERNAUCIUC

partner

Miskolci Egyetem, Hungary (coord); EADTU - European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Netherlands; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Open Universiteit Nederland; UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain; Tallinna Ülikool (Tallinn University); Chamber of Commerce and Industry Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County; Euro-Contact Business School, Budapest, Hungary; Timisoara Software Business Incubator

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