Type 1 = acquire the tried and trusted professional skills
Example : A work placement or a commissioning company's brief
Example : Active Training
Training is organised around the response to a commissioning company's brief using given theory and method with all the constraints of a real work situation.
The double objective being: intensive learning and responding to a professional brief.
Example : Student Engineer Projects
Example of Student Engineer Projects at Montpellier SupAgro (video seen in sequence 2)
Junior Enterprise: A network of higher education student associations offering a service to professionals: a steep learning curve towards employability. Working with Junior Enterprise opens doors for students who are looking for a job.
Awards and Competitions: An initiative is an opportunity to reinforce networking with regions, partners and establishments. For example:
Concours Graine d'Agro : organised by Montpellier SupAgro, SupAgro Alumni and INRA in partnership with SupAgro Fondation, Groupama Méditerranée and AgroTIC, this competition aims at encouraging creativity, autonomy, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. For students with an idea or a project linked with the themes seen in the courses. Three or four prizes are awarded every year with a total value of 10,000€.
Challenge Innov'Agro (see video):
Source : UE report "Improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe's higher education institutions" JUNE 2013. Recommendation 10
Prix Isogone : Created in 1986, le ISOGONE competition is and has always been run by the Food Science students of Agrocampus Ouest, in Rennes. This operates as an association (loi 1901) supporting, encouraging and enhancing innovation by awarding a prize for ‘Food Science Innovations' in Brittany, France.
Example :
Classwork and case studies based on real work situations
Example :
Professional tutors, interviews with professionals, visits to businesses, open conferences
