STEM2020 - Enhancing employability through curricular cross-cultural internships

To support our undergraduate students to become creative and culturally rich graduates in a connected world, we are fostering cross-cultural internships to increase the proportion of mobile students. The selection criteria, different from that by usual study abroad, provide students with more inclusive opportunities. Creative assessment tools are used during and post the internship to assess students’ learning from the research undertaken as well as soft skills. Our evaluations showed that students developed their employability skills including critical thinking, independent working and communication with people from a different cultural background, in addition to learning new research skills.