Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Internship I 

University-Companies Communication and relationships
According to the participants in the focus group, communication between the university and companies should be improved. A direct relationship with companies was considered the best way to increase the knowledge of the course catalogue. In particular, collaborations between the university and companies, as well as meetings, were considered the most useful ways to introduce academic courses. Nonetheless, the medium by which information was mostly conveyed was the Internet. According to the participants in the focus group, there is a lack of identifiable coordinators and of a structure dedicated to manage relationships with companies. Each department has its own management and the response time is too long.

Corporate activity related to professional shortlisting and needs
In the education/training of young professionals, companies show their slight preference towards soft skills, and do not consider the Sapienza university degree courses capable of training students on these specific aptitudes and skills. Skills are assessed by companies mainly through individual interviews. Companies state that the soft skill that universities may mostly influence is the «Ability to adapt to organisations’ needs». Also the «ability to constructively collaborate with others» should be a prerogative of university courses.

Following the CESOP survey carried out through the focus group, the Teaching Committees agree to take the following indications into account:

• Introduce learning activities aimed at developing soft skills; 
• Improve the awareness and knowledge of the Degree programmes course catalogue, emphasizing the development of skills required by the job market;
• Improve the awareness and the university-companies relationships by increasing collaboration and meetings with companies;
• develop a better-structured “marketing” activity promoting the degree programmes.