Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:00

EUSA OPENS BOSTON INTERNSHIP OFFICE

More than 100 student placements expected in first year

EUSA, a London-based educational organization and the largest independent supplier of American undergraduate student interns to industry sectors across Europe, has announced the inauguration of its first internship operation in North America.

"We are bringing our internship placement expertise to the Boston community and we look forward to screening and providing capable interns to organizations that will benefit from this kind of support," said Meagan Basilius, EUSA's worldwide internship director, who is on temporary assignment to Boston.

EUSA's first partner for Boston-area internships is Boston University, through its School of Management and Division of Extended Education. EUSA will provide more than one hundred internships during the 2005 - 2006 academic year across a range of industry sectors such as banking, financial services, marketing, business development, media, arts, healthcare, education, politics, NGOs and communications.

EUSA has staffed its Boston internship office and is developing relations with internship sponsors in the private, public and non-profit sectors in the Boston area. "We are very lucky to have selected two top professionals for our Boston office, who will place qualified graduate and undergraduate American and international students into appropriate professional practice internships," said Basilius.

Kate Moore, EUSA's director of internships in Boston, formerly served as the director of internships for American University in Washington D.C. where she oversaw the placement of 1,200 student interns for all Washington-based programs, including six summer and 40 traditional semester programs each year. Sean Williams, EUSA internship manager, has worked in Boston with John Hancock Financial Services and Financial Times Interactive, as well as EF Language Travel.

"We expect to expand to other countries and other continents," said Tony Johnson, executive director of EUSA, based in London. "Our academic partners have a global vision, and they expect the level of service from EUSA around the world equal to that they have received in Europe."

EUSA (www.eusa-edu.com) works with universities, departments, and individual professors to build customized, academically-directed international internship programs. EUSA currently works with 38 US colleges and universities for 95 academic internship programs in London, Dublin, Paris, Geneva and Madrid.

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Tuesday, 13 July 2004 08:18

EUSA OPENS OFFICE IN GENEVA

Expands International internships for US colleges and universities

GENEVA - July 13, 2004 EUSA, a pan-European educational organization specializing in academically-directed internships and customized study abroad programs in Europe for US educational partners, today announced the opening of its newest office in Geneva, Switzerland.

"Geneva is a very exciting venue for young people interested in working with international organizations" said Dr. Aden Hayes, EUSA's director in Madrid. "Through programs with EUSA, US colleges and universities can offer their students the many professional, academic and linguistic benefits this city has to offer."

Geneva hosts the headquarters for over 180 international organizations and many multinational corporations, including the UN High Commission for Refugees, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and the International Labor Organization, as well as hundreds of consultancies, think tanks, and NGOs supporting this global and cross-border activity.

"Geneva is an exceedingly international city," said Tony Johnson, EUSA's director in London. "It is small, safe and beautiful -- and offers American students the chance to live in French, but work in English."

EUSA's Geneva office strengthens its European infrastructure that allows colleges and universities, departments and programs, and individual professors to draw on nearly three decades of internship and study abroad experience in order to create or augment international academic experiences for their students.

EUSA helps its partners build internship programs based on their institutional calendars, budgets, and academic objectives. EUSA allows flexibility in program design, giving educational partners the ability to maintain ownership and oversight of their programs while outsourcing the logistics or management of program components to EUSA.

EUSA offers its educational partners any combination of its services, which include internship placement, program management, academic program development, and accommodation.

In addition to Geneva, EUSA operates in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris. In 2004 EUSA will place more than 1050 students in challenging professional practice internships.

Thursday, 11 March 2004 00:22

EUSA SUPPORTS MORE UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE

Students continue to report great internship experience

BOSTON - March 11, 2004 EUSA, a pan-European study abroad organization specializing in academically directed professional practice internships and educational programs in Europe, today announced collaborating with 15 new American educational partners to implement programs in Europe this year. "Increasingly universities are relying on us to do the work on their behalf and to serve their students as they would themselves," said Tony Johnson, EUSA's London Director. "We take that responsibility very seriously." EUSA implements more than 40 customized programs per year on behalf of U.S. universities in four European capitals: Dublin, London, Madrid and Paris.

EUSA also places more than 1,000 students in professional practice internships per year as an integral part of these academic programs. "Although we continue to experience growth, our primary focus is always to meet the individual learning goals of each of the students we serve," said Aden Hayes, EUSA's Madrid director. "With internships, for example, we are careful to match each student based on his or her skills, interests and professional aspirations with the right sponsor organization." The internships EUSA offers cover a wide range of industry sectors, including business, media, arts, healthcare, education, politics, NGOs and communications.

Through site visits and student and supervisor evaluations, EUSA maintains the high quality of its internship database. Student feedback in all four EUSA sites for Fall 2003 indicate students find their professional practice internships a valuable and satisfying experience. Nuria Velazquez, EUSA's placement director in Madrid said, "Students get out of it what they put into it, and it is great to see the level of responsibility given to some of my students."

One of Velazquez's students placed at a record label in Madrid claimed to have chosen most of the songs for the new album by Ella Baila Sola, a Spanish group also popular in Latin America and on Spanish stations in the US. The student reported, "I am from Los Angeles, and I thought I had a pretty good knowledge of the music scene, especially Latin music, but I learned a lot about new artists and new music--I worked very hard, but I had a great experience."

Based on student evaluations, Rebecca Woolf, EUSA's placement director in Dublin reported similar internship experiences for the students she placed during fall 2003. "One student even developed his own testing suite for Java Code for a software framework company in Dublin," she said. "It's nice to know that the skills they applied will be the highlight of their resumes."

"Professional practice internships allow students to feel like an integral part of some of London's -- really Europe's -- leading companies," said Meagan Basilius, EUSA's placement director in London. One of Basilius' placements in communications reported that her work was "distributed to anyone who could use the information, including the VP of Licensing and Business Development and the CEO." "Work offering that kind of exposure and responsibility at a company really gives these young professionals a competitive advantage," said Basilius.

Xavier Gonzalez Del Valle, EUSA's placement director in Paris, placed a student with aspirations to open a high-end restaurant in New York City upon graduation. The student was placed at a luxury four-star hotel where she assisted in every facet of restaurant management, from serving at the bar, providing customer service or preparing food. Upon completion of the internship, she emphasized more than ever that she was convinced of opening her dream restaurant after college.

"I feel very satisfied when a student has been able to validate --or even invalidate sometimes --their career choices," said Gonzalez Del Valle.

EUSA works with universities, departments, and individual professors to build customized international programs based on their respective needs. The organization offers any combination of its services that include internship, program management, academic program development, and residency placement.

EUSA, in partnership with Boston University, was founded with the conviction that the varied and rich cultural environment in the European Union (EU) can open the minds, change the perspectives and build the practical professional skills of students.

Thursday, 01 May 2003 00:23

EUSA PLACES RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND PREDICTS MORE GROWTH

EUSA Places More than 450 Students in Professional Practice Internships in Four European Capitals

BOSTON - May 1, 2003 EUSA, a pan-European educational services company building tailored international programs in Europe for client universities in North America, today announced that operations in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris placed record numbers of U.S. students in professional practice internships in Spring semester 2003.

"This semester we placed more than 450 students and expect by the end of the year we will have placed well over a thousand young people in professional practice experiences," said Tony Johnson, EUSA's managing partner in London, "We predict the numbers will continue to grow as more and more students demand the opportunity to do internships abroad."

To accommodate the demands of existing client universities, EUSA will be opening an office in Geneva, Switzerland, in Spring 2005 to offer students the opportunity to live in a French-speaking environment, but work in English. Geneva offers a wide range of internship opportunities with international NGOs, multi-national companies and smaller, local organizations.

"It is important to know that even as we grow in terms of number of students placed and numbers of cities in which we operate, EUSA is very focused on taking the time to make each professional practice placement on behalf of our client universities with great care -- based on the student's studies, prior experience and professional plans," said Dr. Aden Hayes, EUSA's managing partner in Madrid.

EUSA offers internships in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris across a wide range of industry sectors including business, media, arts, healthcare, education, politics, NGOs and communications.

"We try really hard to make the right match," said Meagan Basilius, EUSA's London placement director. Examples of Basilius' placements this spring include a journalism student with an interest in fashion with one of the UK's most well-respected fashion magazines, a pre-law student in an international investigative firm specializing in white-collar crime and a media student with an interest in advertising writing ad copy with a London agency.

"This spring I was able to place a pre-med student with an interest in obstetrics with the neonatal intensive care unit for a major maternity hospital!" said Dublin Placement Director Rebecca Woolf, "It feels really good when you are able to give a student the exact experience she is looking for."

Madrid Placement Director Alyson Silk said in regard to this spring, "My students had many, many great placements, but I was particularly pleased that I was able to place a film student with an interest in technology with a studio doing digital enhancements for the Spanish film industry."

Xavier Gonzalez del Valle, Paris placement director, said, "This Spring I had enormous satisfaction when I placed a journalism student with a French regional newspaper where the she actually writes articles in French!"

EUSA ( www.eusa-edu.com ) works with universities, departments and individual professors to build international programs based on respective institutional calendars, budgets and academic objectives. EUSA allows clients to maintains control over the design, ownership and oversight of their programs while outsourcing the logistics or management of program components to EUSA. EUSA offers clients any combination of its services which include internship, program management, academic program development and residency placement.

"We think it is encouraging that in a time of such unpredictability in the world, young American students continue to go abroad in record numbers to broaden their perspectives and enhance their resumes," said EUSA London's Managing Partner Tony Johnson.

EUSA was founded with the conviction that the varied and rich cultural environment in the European Union (EU) can open the minds, change the perspectives and build the practical professional skills of its clients' students. The EU will soon embrace 25 countries, 31 languages and unlimited possibilities for living, working and learning.