Page 4 - Guidelines for Internship/Research Internship for Under Graduate Students

craftspeople, and similar other entities for providing opportunities to students for active
engagement in on-site experiential learning.

2.0 OBJECTIVES

An internship is gaining first-hand experience by an individual besides comprehending
the way of working in an organisation, leading to improve the skill aptitude for a specific
job or job role and building research capabilities with learning opportunities. Internships
should be such organized that benefits the research intern as well as the internship
providing organization. Following are the intended objectives of engaging undergraduate
students in internship for employability and research internship programmes:
1. Integration of workshop with workplace: To see the internship in a broader,
integrated and holistic manner where the delivery of the classroom is aligned with
outcomes of the workplace. The objectives of the internship need to be designed
with the intention of integrating workshop / classroom / lab/research lab learnings
with the workplace (organisation / enterprise / start-ups / corporate / farmlands
/ artisans / gig workers / Non-government organisations (NGOs)/research &
development organisations, higher education institutions (HEIs), etc).
2. Understanding of the world of work: To provide undergraduate students with
an opportunity to improve their understanding of the experiences, challenges, and
opportunities of the real world of work, as well as to set their expectations and
behaviour in accordance with the demands, culture, and values of current and
emerging jobs.
3. Hybrid model learning: To broaden learning opportunities by combining
physical and digital modes of learning while working in industry, corporate,
research & development organisations, workplace, within or outside HEIs,
blended with a mentor or research expert and as per the need and convenience.
4. Developing research aptitude: To create and facilitate conditions that allow
students in their quest for knowledge, its discovery, learn, understand and sharpen
research acumen, familiarising with analytical tools and techniques with
appropriate usage, research methodologies, data analysis, integrity and ethical
behaviour, manuscripts preparations, identification of appropriate journals,
patent and intellectual property rights, and their application in solving
research/complex/real-life problems.
5. Exposure in emerging technologies: To provide exposure to emerging
technologies/ automation and how it can support, facilitate, improve and reinforce
work processes/ culture/ job roles/art and craft, including the traditional areas of
art-craft/ heritage skills, agriculture, etc.
6. Enhance entrepreneurial capabilities: Understand how organisations /
enterprises are formed for sustainable progress so that start-ups and
entrepreneurial capabilities are strengthened among students and they are
encouraged to be job creators.
7. Development of decision-making and teamwork skills: To facilitate the
development of problem-solving and decision-making skills, enable teamwork &