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- Aqua-Internship
- Dear visitors,
- You are visiting our internship program home page. It is our pleasure to inform you that this project has
assisted, so far, 65 MSc students of Asian partner institutions and 50 more are going to join internship to
work and get experience from the real world. Nearly 20 students from Europe, USA and other countries
joined the internship in Asia. We are expecting many more. Every month, our project page receive over
1,000 hits.
There are a number of opportunities of experiential learning. A wide range of placements and partners
offer their services and facilities for your use. You can do your research (experimental trials or
questionnaire surveys) or simply community services working on a day-to-day basis. Please take a look
by clicking "Placements" button. You can scroll through the placements. Select one suitable for you. Click
on "Apply" button if you are interested to join our network of dynamic people.
For more information and pass this information to others, Click here and download the brochure.
You can also hear from the interns who are in the filed and read many reports what they have been doing
by clicking here or by clicking on the 'Reports' button on the left.
Good news - we are collaborating with Aquaculture without Frontiers (AwF). All the AwF projects will
serve as placements for Aqua-Internship.
- If you have any queries please feel free to send us by clicking on "Contact us" button. Thank you.
- Interns News!
- Great news: About 100 students / interns have been supported / facilitated by the program so far (see at
the end of this page). Recent current interns and their activities are described below:
- Mr George Owen (Harry), a fresh graduate of University of Sussex, United Kingdom has confirmed his
participation in internship program in Nepal to start from beginning of March, 2012. He will conduct a
survey on women in aquaculture program and/or help a professor of IAAS, Rampur various on-station
and on-farm research projects.
Two students, named; Milan van der Velden and Lennart Teunissen, from the University of HAS Den
Bosch University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands have joined internship at RIA1, Hanoi, Vietnam
from mid-February, 2012. They will be helping a lecturer who is carrying out a research project on fish
genetics/biodiversity.
David Garcia Nieto from University of Barcelona, Spain joined internship from the end of January to help
a scientist at WorldFish Center head office based in Penang, Malaysia.
Mr Bram Bloks, a Dutch student at Wageningen University joined internship program to work for AwF-
Nepal project in Nepal from October 2, 2011 for about three months.
Nicolas Mazurier from Spain completed his volunteer to work for AwF-Nepal project who started from
October 2, 2001
Josh Cantrill from York joined the internship program at AIT. He is a graduate of Bangor University in
Wales, UK. He conducted a trial on aquaponics and has left for UK after flood submerged AIT.
Txomin Azpeitia,a Spanish citizen graduated from Ghent University, Belgium arrived on May 3rd for
internship at AIT. He completed a trial testing a herbal alternative to MT hormone for sex-reversal.
Mark Woollard from Plymouth joined internship program at AIT from March 2nd. While having experience
in tilapia hatchery, he assisted in editing documents and publication. Mark got a permanent job back in
UK. He handed over his work to Josh.
Alex Kent from UK jointed internship in RIA1, who is assisting data collection on environmental
monitoring of cage culture in Halong Bay and surrounding areas being involved with the Head of the
Environmental Group of RIA1.
Nichola Van Os, a South African / British citizen joined internship at AIT in 2010. She assisted in
publication work related to aquaculture and aquatic resources management. Her article has been
published by World Aquaculture Magazine.
- Rhaul Oliveira from Brazil arrived at AIT, conducted eco-toxicity trials using bio-markers and is now in
Portugal to write up his PhD thesis.
- Zoe Featherstone from University of Stirling has joined the Aqua-Internship at University of Agriculture
and Forestry (UAF), Vietnam.
- Preston from the State University of New York at New Paltz joined internship at AIT from January 11,
2010. He completed his internship about tilapia farming as well as some other AARM activities. He is
back in US to join new job. Congratulations!
Nabin from IAAS, Nepal completed internship learning about tilapia farming at AIT. He also went to BAU,
Bangladesh to learn about Pangasias farming. He gained adequate experience for running tilapia and
Pangasias farms and has started his own in Chitwan, Nepal.
Ms Claudia Ferraz from the University of Aveiro, Portugal joined Aqua-Inernship and she conducted a
research on the use of probiotics in tilapia fry. She returned to Portugal.
Earlier SONIA and SUSANA from the same university in Portugal, who joined Aqua-Internship gave
seminars. Please click on their names to watch their videos of their presentations. Sonia has also
published a journal article. Please click here to read / download.
Mr. Mikael Chavelley from Montpelier, France completed his internship and also graduated from his
university. He met with Sonia and Susana, previous interns when they were at AIT for their internship.
Click here to see the video...
- Tida Leagnavar from US joined Aqua-Internship and assisted in organizing the International Symposium
on Aquaculture and Fisheries Education (ISAFE). Her assistance in editing abstracts was very much
helpful and she got a great experience. Upon completion she got a job in New Zealand.
