We are talking about the website www.monstagedetroisieme.fr: this platform offers 30,000 internship opportunities each school year, with 15,000 offers posted online by public administrations and 15,000 by private companies.
“It’s not easy to find an internship, we didn’t have any ideas. So we went with our main teacher to the site www.monstagedetroisieme.fr to look at the offers. That’s how we discovered the offer from Orange,” say Nijmeddine and Khalil, third-year students at Jules Romains College in Nice.
In priority neighborhoods, third-year students attending schools classified as Priority Education Networks (REP+ and REP) do not always have the contacts that allow them to find a host company or administration to carry out their third-year internship, which has been mandatory since 2005, and is so crucial for their professional future.
This is why the internship marketplace www.monstagedetroisieme.fr has been set up by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (formerly CGET) for the benefit of third-year students enrolled in the 1,094 REP+ and REP colleges in France.
In the Alpes-Maritimes, the collection of internships and the management of the platform is carried out by the association Les entreprises pour la Cité, in consultation with the services of the Prefecture and National Education. “The businesses of the department and the administrations played along well. We were able to collect more than 400 internship offers from more than 70 companies and administrations[1] for the students attending the nine schools concerned by the system![2]” enthuses Elisabeth Fuchs, Regional Director of Les entreprises pour la Cité.
The six students welcomed last week to the Prefecture are not likely to forget their experience. After a tour of the various administration services, their week concluded under the golds of the Republic at the Palace of the Sardinian Kings, in the presence of the Prefecture’s Secretary General, Françoise Taheri, who gave them some precious advice for the future… “With work, you can reach the highest level. That is what is happening to me. If you work, and if you are happy otherwise, you will progress. You must not be a prisoner of a condition. France allows it, seize your chance!”
