| Name of activity/title | Student fair |
| Domain/action | Domain 4: Enhancing the quality of innovation and entrepreneurial education Action: – Internship in businesses |
| Goal of activity/short summary | An annual event, the aim of which is to create direct contacts between students, enterprises, and university, and offer opportunities for enterprises to introduce themselves, their activity and their industry to the students. Each year on average 40- 50 enterprises participate. The fair combines enterprises’ information boards, workshops, and presentations by enterprises. |
| Type of stakeholders involved | Enterprises, department of academic affairs, student council, internship supervisors, students. |
| Description how conducted | It is organized once a year in the facilities of the university. The fair is scheduled for March to provide students and graduating students opportunities for finding internship places and jobs starting in the summer. |
| Resources required | Facilities to organize the fair. Contact networks for different industries. Student volunteers. |
| Lessons learned/success factors | Successful implementation requires active communication with the industry. Students and student council should have active role in organizing the fair, inviting the industry, planning the workshop and events to make the fair relevant for them, and providing learning opportunities. |
| Time period | Annual since 2014 |
| Link (if relevant) | N/A |
| Partner who submitted the practice | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Keyword | Internship, students, industry partnership, education |
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