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Testimonials
Colleen Cutcliffe
Associate Scientist, Elan Pharmaceuticals
"There is a lot of competition here at Elan now that people have seen how successful we have been with the interns that have come through our lab."
Jochen Förster
Chief Operating Officer, Fluxome Sciences
…”The INOV Contacto Programme is an excellent opportunity for us to strengthen our ongoing activities as it gives us the freedom to test additional scientific hypotheses. On the other hand, trainees have the chance to get insight into a foreign work environment, and hereby to gain work experience and to apply their university knowledge for the first time. Altogether, we clearly have a win-win situation for both the company and the trainee."
Paulo Magalhães
Cisco - Linksys
"I finally received an offer from Cisco: I will be joining Linksys in Shanghai as a devtester soon. I am moving to Shanghai this weekend together with my girlfriend which will be working in Shanghai as well. I am, of course, quite happy with it, and excited about the relocation to a new city. I thank all of you who helped and supported this search for a position and that gave me a better view of this company”.
Emílio Rui Vilar
Chairman of the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
“... The outstanding results of this experience attest to the quality of the candidates (and to the right selection criteria) and the excellent preliminary preparation that the programme guarantees in Portugal. Participating in the Contacto Programme also means resuming an old responsibility. Let us not forget that the first globalisation was the work of our ancestors, the Portuguese discoverers of the 16th century.”
António Horta Osório
Chairman of the Totta Group
“ It is when thinking about this international experience that made me a more prepared, more flexible, more complete business manager that I feel that the Contacto Programme is a clear window of opportunity for achieving wider horizons of knowledge and personal and professional growth.”
Francisco Neto
International Financial Director of Logoplaste
“In late 1997, I joined Logoplaste through the newly established Contacto 1. Clutching my Economics diploma, I was keen to spend a few months abroad and felt safe because I knew I was in good hands. I had complete faith not only in the ICEP, which was sponsoring the programme but also in those who had created it. Of course there was a degree of uncertainty and a feeling of adventure, starting with the fact that neither Logoplaste nor I had any say in the matter. There were no interviews, job descriptions or concrete goals. It was like meeting your bride for the first time at the altar. Today, after more than five intense years abroad, I work in the International Financial Department at Logoplaste, providing support to different countries in terms of financial and commercial management and new projects, continuing a career in international management whose doors were opened to me by Contacto. It is therefore a great pleasure to see the Contacto Programme continuing. It has always inspired exclamations of genuine admiration (and a degree of envy) from all those to whom I have described it over the years.”
Luís Franco
Managing Director, Tradecom
“As a young man who was finishing his degree and who already had some international experience (Erasmus), participation in the first edition of Contacto@ICEP was a natural step, and had a highly significant effect on my career. From an internship in the United States to my ongoing collaboration with my host company in Germany, the experience I gained helped to speed up my professional development, even after returning to Portugal, where I have remained involved in international projects.”
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