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The program's main aim is to provide quality training to young graduates in an international context and to serve as a link that allows past and current participants to keep in touch and share information between one another through the use of an informal knowledge network and a growing international contact network: the NetworkContacto.

The increasing participation of companies in the INOV Contacto Program shows that it has now become well recognised and held in high regard not only by the Portuguese business community but also by some of the most prestigious companies and research institutes worldwide. Click here to read some Testimonials provided by participating companies and interns.

Along with that increasing recognition, the INOV Contacto was considered "Best Practice" in the field of Management Development Programmes - Graduate Programmes by the national experts of the "Small and Medium Enterprises' Internationalization Support" task force. As a result, the INOV Contacto will be part of a good practices publication by the Entreprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission which aims to determine how public policies can help the SMEs in their international growth efforts and to adopt a more and more european and international orientation standard.

There are no costs involved for the companies that accept the interns and there functions should be compatible with the intern's qualifications, in order that both the host companies and the graduates benefit from the internship. The internships are to start in 2008 and will last for nine months.

Visit the INOV Contacto website for more information. http://www.networkcontacto.com/

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International Internships is an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Portugal, supported by the European Union and by QREN/POPH, and managed by Aicep Portugal Global.