This project is under the “Skill-Up, Match-Up” project funded by Spark (Holland NGO) and operated by Al Moltaqa in cooperation with LPA (Lebanese Programmers Association).
This project is targeting to work together with universities to fill the gap between theory and field experiences needed for the fresh graduates to find good vacancies related to their expertise.
The project “Software Developer Expert” is targeting computer major students and consists of giving intensive training and working experience for 100 graduation years students (Master or Bachelor) as the following:
- Selection: in cooperation with the University of passionate and superior students.
- Semester 1 (Skill-Up): Lectures/Workshops for 100 computer sciences students for 15 weekly sessions and 3 hours/session.
- Evaluation: at the end of the Skill-Up period and after an evaluation test in addition to attendance and trainer’s feedback, we will nominate the students for the Match-Up period.
- Semester 2 (Match-Up): passed students will have the chance to get support for 3 months during one of the following:
- Internship: in ‘potential employer’ private sectors (we will try to get a minimum commitment to hiring them) under the supervision of experts.
- Entrepreneurship: passionate student having an idea for a project with a good chance to be a beneficiary business will be supported by both computer and business experts to develop and create his business. We may create a partnership between businesses and software developers to create a business.
- Online Sessions: providing 10 online sessions by experts during the curriculum execution for all Universities’ students (even unregistered students).
- Microsoft Imagine Cup: mentoring 5 passionate teams to subscribe to Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021.
At the end of this period, passed students will have all the needed knowledge and experience to be hired and have a big chance to be hired in the company where he/she passed the internship.