Secondary school students to join IMDEA Networks for educational training

07 April 2014

Three bilingual 16 year-old students from the Madrid secondary school ‘IES Isaac Albéniz’ will join IMDEA Networks tomorrow for a period of three days on an educational stay. IMDEA Networks thus enlists on a learning and training program promoted by the Regional Government of Madrid called ‘4ESO+empresa’ (4^th grade plus industry, in English). The aim of this program is to provide young students with a first point of contact with the realities of the workplace. This experience will allow them to observe and participate in the everyday tasks of the organization or company they join and get a feel for the world of work that awaits them in the not so distant future. Efforts such as this are expected to improve training for young people and facilitate their integration into the labor market.

During their stay the students will be supervised by three experienced members of our research team, Dr. Antonio Fernández Anta, Dr. Pierre François and Dr. Vincenzo Mancuso, who hope to be able to show them what the life of a researcher is like and (perhaps) awaken their interest for a life in science.