Every Vilnius University student (disregarding study program, degree or year of studies) can do a smart internship. Most important for this internship is your desire to improve your competences, willingness to try out different learning and training opportunities during your studies, and your openness to new things.

Smart internship is based on creative thinking methodology – the Design Thinking. During the internship additional training activities are organised for students to improve their communication, creativity, team-work competences. What is more, a University mentor is assigned to every team.
2021/2022 academic year spring semester Smart internship
Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/YyLrZEYFv4
Smart internship plan for 2021/2022 academic year spring semester:
01.03 - 13.03 Registration
16.03 Announcement of teams
19.03 - 20.03 Design Thinking methodology training (remote!)
21.03 - 31.05 Internship duration
Choices are made according to:
- student’s motivation;
- student’s priorities (prioritization of cases);
- diversity of the team (students of different faculties/ study programs in one team);
- up to 7 persons in a team;
- gender equality aspect.
Cases proposed by organisations
Luminor Group
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CASE :
How to investigate and identify model risks of existing modelling methodologies and applied data, challenging the status quo by utilizing better predictive methods and modelling techniques?
ABOUT:
Luminor is undergoing a major transition in trying to make a number of risk models much more sophisticated and accurate, they are also going to be driven by higher frequency and more complex data and methodologies.
Risk models in the bank are required to support various decisions in predicting the riskiness of customers, in quantifying a capital requirement, also in evaluating an adequate level of bank’s expected losses and many more.
Competence of understanding and properly managing models in upcoming years will be on very high demand in every fast-growing bank, specialized lending institution or even fintech company.
Expectations: New, more accurate and with less model risks modelling methodologies are researched, investigated, and tried out on existing bank’s internal data. Alternatives for currently existing approaches are suggested and presented.
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Alfa klasė
 
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CASE :
How to improve the IT infrastructure of an EdTech startup e-learning platform for better user experience?
ABOUT:
The ever-changing education market raises the quality standards of school education. The growing popularity of E-learning poses the question: how to improve virtual learning environments to make them more convenient for pupils, their parents and teachers? Educational startup “Alfa klasė” invites interns to participate in creating a more interactive, efficient and quality virtual learning experience for Lithuanian students, by proposing changes in the IT infrastructure of an existing e-learning platform.
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Revel systems
 
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CASE :
How to facilitate/automate the process of drafting employment contracts?
ABOUT:
The Revel platform helps restaurants and retailers deliver a better customer experience, diversify revenue streams, and scale their businesses with ease.
Currently, more than 10 changes in employment contracts in the company are made using the MS Excel function „email merge“. How can this process be facilitated by automated solutions?
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What is a smart internship at Vilnius University?
Smart internship is organised in interdisciplinary teams of 5–7 students solving real-life organisations' problems. The whole process is leaded by the internship supervisor from the University and a mentor from a company. Students can do a smart internship voluntarily or as their compulsory internship, if it corresponds to the requirements. A note about the performed internship is included into student's diploma supplement. What is more, every student gets a smart internship diploma confirming gained competence, and a recommendation from the company.
How smart internship is smart?
Benefits to students:
- one more opportunity to gain practical experience during studies;
- development of hard skills and soft skills: team-work, creativity, non-standard thinking, adaptability, problem-solving, etc.;
- growth of social network;
- opportunity to take a wider look at the ways of employing professional competences.
Benefits to organisations:
- opportunity to contribute to the training of future professionals;
- selection of talents – future employees at early stage;
- new (fresh) glance to the problem.
Got any questions? Ask!
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