The Summer Job Program was designed by CESAR to offer a practical experience to students, identify talented individuals and provide a rapid prototyping environment for sponsoring companies.
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3. Summer Job
Summer Job is a program designed
by CESAR that aims to encourage
the knowledge exchange with
Educational Institutions, to offer
hands on experience to the
students, to find new talents and to
promote the image of the sponsors
involved in the program.
4. How it works
Students, during college vacations (six
weeks), get involved in real projects in CESAR,
in a learn by doing approach, with the aim to
build up knowledge by applying theory into
practice, with the tutors supervision.
The students will have the opportunity to
show their potential and to develop important
professional competencies in order to
conquer a good job position in the market.
Curriculum Analysis
Technical Evaluation
Human Resources Evaluation
Recruitment Process
5. The Students
This program is focused on
undergraduate students from courses
like Computer Science, Engineering,
Business Administration, Economy,
Design and so on, which are interested
in getting involved in developing
prototypes and proof of concept for
real problems inside an Innovation
Institute.
6. Sponsors
The companies that sponsor the CESAR
Summer Job Program can choose the areas of
interest in which the students will work.
As a counterpart for the sponsorship, the
students will develop prototypes and proof of
concept for solutions in the areas chosen by
the companies.
8. ● Tutoring, methodologies and expertise
of CESAR professionals;
● Immersion in a real design and
development of innovation projects
environment;
● The teams will be free to define the best
solution to their assigned challenges;
● Internship Allowance to help with the
living expenses;
● Certificate of participation of the
program with CESAR's and sponsor's
logo.
Benefitsfor students
9. Format
● Multi-disciplinary teams of 4 students of different
undergraduate courses;
● Problem/opportunity defined by the Sponsor;
● Duration: 06 weeks (vacations in January or July);
● The program includes Internship Allowance;
● Participation certificate for all the students;
● Sponsor’s logo in the Certificates.
11. Planning
● Definition of Problems/Opportunities with the
Program sponsors;
● Students applications;
● Selection process;
● Identification of student’s profiles and level of
knowledge;
● Distribution of the Problems/Oportunities
among the groups;
● Activities planning.
12. 2. Operation 1/2
LEVELING
Students will have lessons and receive coaching
sessions throughout the program, in order to level
their knowledge and to learn how to apply theory in
real projects. Besides that, aiming the knowledge
transfer, CESAR presents some important
methodologies such as:
● Design Thinking – understanding and validation of the
problem, ideation and prototyping;
● Agile Methodologies to conduct projects;
● Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup;
● Lean Generation, Business Feasibility and Business
Roadmap.
13. 2. Operation 2/2
DEVELOPMENT
During the program, they will have to:
● Understand and validate the problem (studies and field
research);
● Find a suitable solution for the problem (considering
deadline, customers, users, complexity and feasibility);
● Prototype and validate the solution.
14. Pitch
● The teams will present the
prototypes/solutions that they have been
working in the past six weeks to their tutors,
mentors and the sponsors.
● The final pitch of each team takes place in
Recife, at the end of the program, when the
students will receive their participation
Certificates in the CESAR Summer Job
Program.
16. A private, not for profit and self
sustainable center that innovates in
products, services and companies
with Information and
Communication Technologies
(ICTs).
Since its foundation in 1996, the
center helps companies throughout
the innovation life cycle - from the
study of contexts, design and
prototyping ideas, to developing
solutions in various sectors.
C E S A R
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