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Connecting companies with universities

The Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) proactively responds to the challenges companies face in Slovakia. One of the barriers to obtaining new investments with higher added value as well as to the development of Slovak innovative companies is the availability of a qualified workforce, while even the skills of university graduates often do not reflect the needs of the labor market.

Therefore, the SARIO agency proactively decided to use its contacts to Slovak business entities and for the third time launched its project PRACTICE FOR UNIVERSITIES, SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES 3.0.

Within the project PRACTICE FOR UNIVERSITIES, SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES 3.0, companies have again the opportunity to submit topics for Bachelor's, Master's, and dissertation theses by 10 December 2020 based on practical assignments that companies need to solve, proposals for areas for joint research and development projects with faculties and also companies may offer internships to students of Slovak universities.

The SARIO agency will match the submitted topics from the companies with the faculties and subsequently will organize online matchmaking events, where researchers, professors and students will have the opportunity to establish direct contact with the companies and start their cooperation. This will give companies the opportunity to establish new partnerships with universities, capture young promising talent, and promote themselves among future potential employees and, in addition, cooperation with universities will bring companies new opportunities for development in the field of innovation and research.

According to Róbert Šimončič, SARIO CEO, “cooperation between universities and companies is one of the pillars of an advanced knowledge economy, unfortunately, Slovakia lags significantly behind in statistics in this respect. In our experience, the prevailing view that universities and companies do not want or are unable to cooperate is not true. By now we have met with great interest from companies and faculties to be a part of this project. The cooperation was very constructive and we believe that it will be the same this year as well.”

The 3rd year of the PRACTICE FOR UNIVERSITIES, SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES 3.0 project involves         6 faculties throughout the Slovak Republic: Faculty of Economy, the University of Economics in Bratislava; Faculty of Science - Department of Molecular Biology, Comenius University in Bratislava; Faculty of Wood Science, Technical University in Zvolen; Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Žilina; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice.

For more information on the project contact Alexandra Gačevičová,
Email: alexandra.gacevicova@sario.sk, T: +421 910 828 214

 
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