“The teachers give us a lot of freedom and responsibility.”

You’re given responsibility for a product or project in which you’re immediately seen as a colleague. You tackle issues from documentation to rollout. You have to become pretty independent, because nobody takes you by the hand here. Of course, there’s help…but no one is chasing after you.

I only see the teachers twice, but the student and teacher have weekly contact with each other. The teachers also give the students a lot of freedom. Always a good thing.

I notice that there are teachers who dive into the subject more than others. They want to know exactly what a student is doing, and challenge their students to make choices.

I see teachers protecting students from companies. Many companies are eager for people and want to lend a hand, but don’t offer real content on the internship. As a student, you don’t learn anything from that. The teacher puts a stop to this kind of thing.

We’re already moving from dedicated to virtual machines, and we expect the next step will be the container level. As an organisation, we realise that we have to move more with other organisations and work less ad hoc.

More focus and fewer different activities. We stick to our core activities, and create a flexible ring of specialists. But we’ll still need more people in the future.

Students who really have a passion for technology and can deal with freedom, independence, and responsibility. You see this attitude in a number of students and teachers from Fontys. They continue at home after school, and are very driven.

Their curriculum ties in very well with our activities, and they are really involved in what we do and what we want. In any case, they really empathize with the business because they want to train people for it.

It is. Many students come here with new ideas and new techniques. Many of them also have part-time jobs here. From their first year at university to their first job after graduation. Nice for them. And great for us because they already know us.