Workshops

Beyond the education market you can participate in two different workshops. Engage in a session on aligning your skills to the employer's needs and discover ways to develop these essential skills during your master's programme. Additionally, seize the opportunity to ask all your burning questions about pursuing internships abroad. Let the narrative, expertise, and insights of master student Mike Lenstra about his internship inspire you to chart your own distinctive path.

How to match your skills to the employer’s needs?

Dr. Ingeborg Scheurwater, Netherlands Institute of Biology (NIBI, www.nibi.nl)

The aim of this workshop is to provide you with tools to explore your career opportunities as a bachelor or master student, both inside and outside science. Furthermore it will give insight into the needs (biological knowledge, skills and work attitude) of a wide variety of employers. And last but not least you will learn to successfully match your skills to the employer’s needs. This short workshop therefore briefly involves information, a practical exercise and tips about the following topics:

• Career opportunities and choices – What do you want?, Which skills do you have or do you want to develop?
• Results of the NIBI employer survey (2022/2023) – exploring the employer’s needs
• How to match your skills to the employer’s needs
• Working at your skills during your period as a bachelor or master student

Q&A: Internship abroad with Mike Lenstra

I am Mike Lenstra, a master student in Freshwater and Marine Biology at the UvA. All aspects of biology related to the aquatic environment are involved from ecology to microbiology and from ecotoxicology to zoology. This master is very much research oriented and is therefore composed out of two internships in performing your own research. Both of these internships I have performed abroad. The first on the Caribbean island Curaçao, where I studied Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats and dove almost every day. In this internship, I learned how it is to be living on the other side of the world in a completely different environment than I was used to. My second internship took place in Faro, Portugal. Here, I studied the microbiome of seagrasses. Apart from meeting a lot of new people I also got to embrace a beautiful new culture. Both experiences changed my life in the best way. 

Workshops

*There are twenty spots available per workshop. Once full, registrations will be closed. If there is an available spot on the day of the event, you can participate without prior registration. Therefore, please be on time. If you are not present at the start of your workshop, your spot will be given to another interested participant.