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Ing Jiri Semmler, Brno University of Technology,

ročník 5

Faculty

Faculty of information technologies

Field of study

Field of internship

Computer and Information Sciences

Specialization of Internship

Information Technology Project Management.

Internship period (from - to)

31.7.2017 - 20.10.2017

Internship duration (weeks)

Transport (means, price)

ryanair (100eur) + train (20eur??)

Insurance/Insurance company

Fio

Visa/Work permit (yes/no)

Price of Visa

City of Internship

Belgium, Leuven

Internship reference number

BE-2017-044KUL

About the country

Location of the place

Leuven is in the flanders part of Belgium, around 50km eastern from Brussels. Really nice student city.

City

Full of students, during summer lot of events, lot of industry. It is a students city, coparable with Brno (I guess) with big university KU Leuven. It means that during the summer time it is almost empty and in September it is full :) What suprised me is the public transport. The buses are ok but most of the people prefer the biking, which is cool :) There are lot of bars, places where to go run, some sports areas... I can image to live there...

Surroundings (possible trips, ...)

Belgium is small, you can reach everything in 2 hours by train. The traveling in Belgium is not so expensive. With the Gopass10 you have each way for €5 or cheaper, or you can get a unlimited week ticket for 25 eur or month ticket for 50eur. Bus is 3eur for one a or 77eur for the 3 months

Employer

Septentrio - middle size company (around 150ppl) focusing on GNSS. They have long experience with student's internship but they become a little bit picky and they pick just the good ones.

Work description

Web development of the internal tool. I wasn't participating in the key product but on supporting internal tool made by student. It means it was a mess. But the manager was pretty helpful

Salary (sufficient for local conditions?)

180eur / week. good enough to rent a room and live

Language requirements

everybody in Flanders speak english, no worries. And in the company was the English main language, because the people were from different parts of the world. Not only Dutch/French speaking Belgians but even Portuguese, Brazilian, Czech... So you should have high English level but where not...

Accommodation (price, who provided it)

Join the facebook groups, and you will find something. The semester starts on 15th September, so for anything after that, it could be quite difficult to find a place to stay. Try to fit your internship before 15th Sept. During the summer; you can find accommodation really easy and cheap

Social life

Meeting IAESTE members (pick-up at the airport, organized events...)

the local IAESTE in Leuven is starting, but the do a good job

Meeting other foreign students

I was the only one this year for the company.

Sport and culture

Lot of places for running and culture - it depends. Few clubs and lot of festivals

Food, local specialties

it depends - beer, chocolate, waffles...

Other information

Possibilites to communicate with the Czech Republic

it is 2017... come on

Recommendations for students who will go to the same place

Some money for the first month. I expected that I will be paid weekly so it was a little bit difficult. Don't forget to set up the bank account. I thought that I will go to the first bank and open the bank account for 4 months for free really easy... no way.