6 ECTS credits
180 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4018227ENR voor alle studenten in het 1e en 2e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.
The objective of the internship is that the student cooperates in a concrete project within a company or other organisation. The duration is set at minimum 20 full-time working days; there is however no maximum set. It is explicitly not the objective that the student is employed to perform daily operational activities (of course this is possible if this is imperative for the execution of the project, but this can not be the core of the internship). In other words, a concrete formulation of the problem is needed, as well as a methodology and planning to tackle/solve the problem (or part thereof) within the internship. Examples are market research and analysis, functional analysis of business processes, implementation of new processes, analysis of company data (on a process, department or organisational level).
The internship can be executed in private firms, not-for-profit organisations as well as the public sector.
Students are required to search a position on an individual basis. Once a position has been found, the student needs to contact the VUB Career Center for further administrative purposes. The VUB Career Center contacts the entitled professor to approve the internship. All internship offers are on the website of the VUB Career Center (http://www.vub.ac.be/careercenter/).
Preferentially, the internship is executed during the summer months. However, the internship may be executed during each period of the academic year, provided that the student takes the necessary measures to ensure the follow-up for other course related activities. The internship may be executed on a full-time or a part-time basis (e.g. 2 full-time workings days during 10 calender weeks).
After the completion of the internship, the student is expected to write an internship report. This report consists of (1) a note of about 5 to 10 pages (max. 3000 words) that explains how the internship unfolded, what the problem was, how this was tackled/solved. Also, a short description of the delivered outputs is required. Optionally, a student may also provide in this note a brief critical reflection on the use and relevance of the skills and competences obtained during the Bachelor (and Master) degree (2) an annex consisting of the most representative outputs which were delivered to the firm or organisation (PowerPoint presentations, notes, other documents).
This report needs to be submitted at the latest on the 15th of March of the academic year during which the student is to obtain his or her master's degree. Otherwise, students expecting to obtain their degree in September are required to submit at the latest on the 15th of August. Students expecting to obtain their degree in January need to submit before the 15th of December. If the end date of the internship exceeds the deadline, an exception can be granted (formal approval by e-mail from the course holder).
Teaching Methods
- Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
- Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
- Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study
This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.
Lecture: 1 hour
Practical: 1 hour
Self: 178 hours
The internship aims to introduce the student into corporate practice at management level. The internship allows the student to confront the theoretical knowledge of the courses to practical reality.
These compentences are expected at the end of the internship:
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
ZELF Stage bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie ZELF Stage dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Written evaluation based on the internship report.
Oral explanation may be demanded to clarify elements of the internship report.
After the completion of the internship, the student is expected to write an internship report. This report consists of (1) a note of about 5 to 10 pages (max. 3000 words) that explains how the internship unfolded, what the problem was, how this was tackled/solved. Also, a short description of the delivered outputs is required. Optionally, a student may also provide in this note a brief critical reflection on the use and relevance of the skills and competences obtained during the Bachelor (and Master) degree (2) an annex consisting of the most representative outputs which were delivered to the firm or organisation (PowerPoint presentations, notes, other documents).
This report needs to be submitted at the latest on the 15th of March of the academic year during which the student is to obtain his or her master's degree. Otherwise, students expecting to obtain their degree in September are required to submit at the latest on the 15th of August. Students expecting to obtain their degree in January need to submit before the 15th of December.
This course cannot be taken as part of a credit contract.
It is not allowed to combine 2 internships of 6 ECTS within different organisations into one 12 ECTS internship. The only exception concerns the tutoring project of 6 ECTS, which can be combined with a 6 ECTS internship.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of International Business: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)