INTERNSHIP REPORT
Student: Jenny Chuang
Tutor: Catia Trinari
a. Internship duration
5 months
b. TUCEP profile
TUCEP - Tiber Umbria Comett Education Programme is an association among eleven Italian Universities and Enterprises created in 1992 under a former Comett project. The main activity of TUCEP is to organise and manage training courses at national and European levels. TUCEP coordinated many projects under Tempus, Socrates, Leonardo and was also responsible for the management of the research programs. Formerly it was the coordinator of projects related to Lifelong Learning Programmes, to Minerva and to Grundtvig.
Moreover, the Association is also expert in workshops and meetings organisation and it is connected to a European network of training centres and Universities. Our activities concern:
• Transnational exchanges between Universities and Enterprises
• Development of European-scale training courses
• Production and development of training, specialisation and requalification courses even with the financial support of third parties
• Promotion of any other initiative focused on the development of qualified training activities, research and technological innovation programmes, all of this making use of the network of connections between European Universities and Research Centres.
The efficiency of the methods used in its working and quality management system have been awarded, in 2002, by a quality certification under the standard UNI EN ISO 9001:2000, issued by DET NORSKE VERITAS. Since 2003 TUCEP is a body accredited by the Umbria Region to provide higher, lifelong training activities.
Tucep’s mission is to analyse training needs and to translate them into effective solutions and to plan solutions both for the entrepreneurial and the academic world, and for youth and workers.
Tucep achieves its objectives through:
• Constant analysis of training needs;
• Management of training projects;
• Support in the learning process to promote the labour market entry;
• Support in the orientation process;
• Innovation and quality of vocational training;
• Youth and adults vocational mobility.
c. Student’s general profile
Tzu-Hui, Chuang a 23-years-old student from Taiwan.
She is major in Accounting.
She showed good expressive skills in English.
d. Objectives and activity
The internship aimed at the realisation of European research and training activities/projects in the field of lifelong learning.
The internship started with the consultation and the analysis of European documentation about Lifelong Learning Programme, an European initiative which represents one of the TUCEP main activities. The Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every single life situation through different programmes as Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig, Jean Monnet, and transversal key activities. TUCEP is engaged in the planning and realisation of European networks and projects aimed to achieve the ERASMUS+ priorities and objectives.
After the study activity, Jenny Chuang realized the following activities:
- collection and comparison of data related to the ERASMUS+ priorities and topics;
- creation of new project ideas linked with his interests, TUCEP objectives and ERASMUS+ priorities;
- context research about the following topics: immigration, culture, environment, prisoners’ education, sustainable buildings, science education;
- preparation of working documentation for European meetings;
- collaboration in the realisation of European meetings between partners coming from different countries, aimed at the realisation of specific ERASMUS+ project managed by TUCEP (organisation, realisation of interviews, participation in the brainstorming session about project’s activity).
During the whole internship, the student has been supported by a tutor with a
didactic/organisational role.
e. Evaluation
Since her arrival, Jenny proved to be serious, punctual, friendly and interested in the activities of TUCEP.
She always fulfilled autonomously the assigned tasks and he established a good communication with the tutor and with all the TUCEP staff.
During the internship she showed good skills in the realisation of research activities and in the ideation of new projects. In particular, she was interested in the topic of immigration.
For all this reasons, the TUCEP consider the internship experience very useful to achieve its main objectives and also to allow the exchange of cultural models between different countries.
On behalf of TUCEP,
Catia Trinari
Internship tutor