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Dear Sir/Madam, we are pleased to present you profile of our organisation and invite you to participate in this year’s IAESTE exchange programme. We are convinced that you will also find a reason to cooperate with us and take a great advantage of this partnership.

ABOUT IAESTE The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) is an independent, non-profit and non-political student exchange organisation. It provides students in technical degrees with paid, course-related training abroad and employers with highly skilled, highly motivated trainees for long or short term projects. With over 80 countries involved and exchanging over 4000 traineeships each year worldwide, it is the largest organisation of its kind in the world. The Association was founded in January 1948 at Imperial College, London, where representatives from ten European countries agreed on the initiative. The geographical coverage soon spread to include exchange in over 80 countries on all continents, and IAESTE became a registered body according to Luxembourg law in 2005. Since its inception, IAESTE has exchanged more than 350,000 students worldwide, playing a key role in the development of young engineers and scientists.

IAESTE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME IAESTE committees around the world collect internship offers from employers searching for qualified, international engineering and science students for a set training period. IAESTE conducts the candidate selection from a worldwide pool of students based on the criteria set by the employer. What company specifes:    

profile of the future trainee (faculty, abilities, experience, knowledge of foreign languages etc.), date and duration of the internship (during holiday period, most popular traineeships last 6-12 weeks, but also longer traineeships are available), height of the wage (minimum 300zl/week), range of the internship.

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What company gains:     

qualified interns, who can also sometimes become valuable future employees, developing the language and international skills of their own employees, fresh look at projects in process, opportunity to establish partnership abroad, possibility to replace employees during holiday period.

What IAESTE provides:    

selection of the ideal candidate for the proposed internship, help with visas/work permits, accommodation for the trainee, social and cultural programme during the internship.

What IAESTE gains: 

possibility for students of Cracow University of Technology to take internship abroad and get priceless experience.

Our goal is to organise an exchange programme that provides highest-level experience for both company and interns. That is why we invite you to contact our representatives if any questions about any phase of the programme occur. We sincerely hope that your company will notice benefits arising from cooperation with IAESTE and that it will be a fruitful partnership, that becomes a source of mutual satisfaction.

Local Committee Members Cracow University of Technology IAESTE Poland

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