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Vodafone Qatar and Alcatel-Lucent announced a joint agreement to take 6 university students for an internship programme at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs located in Europe and the United States. The Bell Labs programme is considered to be one of the most sought-out internship programmes of its kind in the world and one that is highly regarded by many in the engineering industry.
Vodafone Qatar will reach out to several universities in Qatar to choose two of its top performing students to join the 2-month programme which will kick-start in June 2014. The programme will entail a hands-on experience of the best in the academic and corporate realms for these students to leave the Bell Labs programme with an unparalleled exposure to the birthplace of many of the 20th century’s most influential technologies, which continues to drive the development of the communications networks of the future.
Eisa Abdulla, Head of Qatarization at Vodafone Qatar, said, “Contributing to the development of a strongly talented workforce ranks at the top of our priorities at Vodafone Qatar. However, this can only be achieved when companies seriously and continuously invest to provide these growth opportunities that are underpinned with genuine and tangible benefits. That’s exactly what underlines our collaboration with Bell Labs. The Bell Labs programme is an experience that every student in the fields of engineering and technology considers to be an opportunity of a lifetime, owing to the fact that they’ll be working very closely with some of the world’s most distinguished scientists and researchers. Bell Labs is a true model for creative thinking.”
Bell Labs is focused on the biggest technical challenges in the telecommunications industry, solving complex problems through both applied and fundamental research. Researchers at Bell Labs – many of them global leaders in their respective disciplines – are working to transform the way people connect with each other and with information and content.
