The project

In line with the strategic lines of the University of Turin, on the one hand, and the AUF strategy (2017-2021), on the other hand, the 3R project (Renforcement, Réseau, Rayonnement) aims to strengthen the offer of curricular and extra-curricular internships in order to support students’ employability within the French-speaking network.

For this reason, the Francohpone University Agency (AUF) represents an initial driving force to achieve this plural internationalization and, in turn, this pilot project could support the AUF strategy (2017-2021) by bringing together data and good practices. This kind of internationalization also matches the Council of Europe recommandations on the Lisbon Strategy, concerning the practice of two Community languages in addition to his own.

The focus on internships helps especially to fill the university system gaps, concerning the identification and circulation of information, the low number of international internships, beyond what the Erasmus+ Traineeship actions enable to achieve, as well as the collaboration with businesses belonging to the territories involved, which could thus become narrower. In addition, this focus will also make it possible to steer more clearly the action of the Institution towards the employability of its graduates, and highlight the strengths of its training.

The 3R project will allow us to:

  • Strengthen the internship research system and support employability among students;
  • Simplify internship search system and administrative processes;
  • Create a network with partner companies and institutions, through the establishment of the Plateforme UniTo de référencement: Stages et Réseaux Francophones (PLUStaF);
  • Expand and widen the number of opportunities, develop internship management protocols which take account of the normative specificities of involved countries and, finally, actively promote this project to the university community, both students and teachers, in order to promote a new approach to this training moment and the junction between the curriculum and working life and, more broadly, promote the Francophonie and multilingualism across university and society.

In addition, this project will create a business model as well as good practices that can be shared and applied by our institutional partners and, optionally, by other local establishments.