Thanks to the SDGZ project, which is also supported by the Slovenian Global Business Network, two students of the Žiga Zois Technical Institute took part in a one-month internship in South America.
“I didn’t imagine that there were so many Slovenians living around the world,” said Nataša Močnik, a fifth-grade student at the Žiga Zoisa Technical Institute, after spending a month on a work placement in Brazil. She travelled to Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, on November 8 to do an internship there and spend a month with the family of Slovenian entrepreneur Sandi Ravbar, director of the company Biolinker. In addition, during her stay in Brazil, Nataša met several Slovenian entrepreneurs who took refuge in Brazil after the Second World War, and she also visited two Slovenian companies there.
The student thanked Principal Maja Lapornik and Director of the Slovenian Economic Association (SDGZ) Andrej Šik for the given experience. Nataša travelled to Brazil at the same time as her classmate Daniel Maurel, majoring in Administration, Finance and Marketing, who spent a month in the city of Caixa do Sul in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The students of the Zois institute from Trieste got the unique opportunity for work practice thanks to the project of the global business internships managed by SDGZ-URES. This was a pilot project, as two students from abroad went across the ocean for the first time, and in January SDGZ is expecting two Slovenian students from Brazil in Itay.
Source: Urška Petaros, Primorski dnevnik. The complete article in the Slovene language is available HERE.
