The role of international internships conducted during academic studies in development of entrepreneurial skills

• Author: Tecau A.S.
• Pages: 169-176

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 9 (58) No. 1 - 2016

The role of international internships conducted

during academic studies in development of

entrepreneurial skills

Alina Simona TECU1

Abstract: This study presents the results of a qualitative marketing research conducted

among students participating in intensive international practice internships organized in a

SOPHRD project. Research objectives are focused on obtaining information on the extent to

which participants from these internships have assimilated entrepreneurial skills necessary

for employment job skills, adapting to a job, comparing individual professional targets with

the real situation on labor market, development of the capacity to decide and act

appropriately in relation to his own career, but also familiarity with European requirements

of a prospective employer to ensure the prerequisites for participating in future university

graduates on a modern and dynamic labor market.

Key-words: student, international internship practice, skills, labor market integration

1. Introduction

Starting from the reality imposed to universities in Romania by Law 1/2010 of

National Education, which is to organize departments, services, offices for

counseling and guidance and from the need to support students in achieving

internships according to their specialization, the launch of project proposals funded

by HRD centered on counseling activities and professional practice, represents an

opportunity for students to increase adaptability of the labor market and hence

facilitate integration within it.

Such an approach had the project “Counseled student - excellent future

employee” financed by the ESF through SOP HRD, unfolded during 2014 - 2015 by

a nationwide partnership whose general objective is constituted by the development

of students' capacity to decide and act accordingly in relation to their individual

career to harmonize individual objectives with labor market requirements.

Specifically, in addition to other activities, through the project it was tried to deepen

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, alina.tecau@yahoo.com