UFSC Interaction – companies granting internships to enhance teaching, research, extension and entrepreneurial education activities: diagnosing demands and opportunities in companies and institutions (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Although the teaching, research and extension tripod guides higher education in our country, it is only more recently, at the end of 2018, that an institutional response to the mobilization promoted by extension forums of public and private institutions of higher education, among others, was increased. segments. With a view to contributing to such a response within ‘’Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina’’, Center of Blumenau, the purpose of this investigation was to capture the evaluations of companies or institutions granting internships, through their supervisors involved in them, about aspects considered relevant in the performance of our students, aiming to increase the curricula of the three existing Engineering courses on campus and plan extension, research and entrepreneurial education actions capable of responding to the demands and opportunities listed. Concomitantly with the application of questionnaires to supervisors of companies or institutions, questionnaires were also applied to students, related to their completed internships. The results were consolidated for both instruments, pointing out, among the selection criteria for interns employed by the companies, proactivity and the ability to work in a team. Among the gaps pointed out by the supervisors of the companies, activities and actions aimed at strategic planning, innovation and entrepreneurship, project management capacity and mastery of English were highlighted. One of the contributions suggested as a product would be to unify the assessment tools for mandatory (Evaluation form) and non-mandatory internships (Report on non-mandatory internship activities - RAENO), to which some of the questions raised in the questionnaires of this research could be added.