This consideration was at the core of the project "Unified internships for engineering students"- SurprisING, implemented by "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galati, in collaboration with the National Confederation for Women Entrepreneurship - CONAF, in which important partnerships were created with a view to consolidating the theoretical knowledge of our students and completing them with practical notions that, in the end, will facilitate their access to the labor market.

One of the important partnerships is represented by the one tied with DMT Marine Equipment that, between June 27 and 11^th of July 2022, hosted 18 students from the Faculty of Engineering, providing them with the opportunity to gain practical knowledge as to how engineering and production processes are carried out, in one of the most modern companies in Galati.
DMT Marine Equipment designs and manufactures high quality marine deck equipment that is exported all over the world. Graduates of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galati, who are employed within the company, contribute significantly to the international success of the company.

We are grateful to our partners for the trust they have in young people, and we are convinced that it is only together that we can increase their chances of developing harmoniously, in accordance with the increasingly rigorous requirements of top employers.

The main objective of the SurprisING project is to increase labor market insertion opportunities and the relevance of practical training for 245 students from faculties with an engineering profile through an integrated program of orientation, career counseling, and internships organized in companies from the economic sectors with competitive potential, identified according to SNC/SNCDI and the areas of intelligent specialization according to SNCDI, which ensure the insertion on the labor market of at least 86 students or graduates. The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund through the Human Capital Operational Program 2014-2020, major specific objective 6.13 - Increasing the number of university and non-university tertiary education graduates who find a job as a result of access to learning activities at a potential workplace/research/innovation, with an emphasis on economic sectors with competitive potential identified according to SNC and areas of intelligent specialization according to SNCDI. Thematic objective no. 10 - Investing in education, training, and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning.