Academic Counselling
Academic and professional counseling is a very important process, which aims to guide and help graduates make the right choice for their future profession, through information on different study opportunities.
The European University of Tirana develops various forms of academic and professional counseling in 12 months of the year. One of the forms is the Graduate Mentorship program, which takes place twice a year with counselors, teachers and psychologists from high schools, whether public, private, artistic schools or vocational high schools. Meanwhile, another form is the “High School Tour” in almost all high schools of Albania, where the career counselors at UET, an organization set up only with real teachers and researchers of higher education. UET also conducts ongoing counseling for graduates who want to benefit from excellence to talent scholarships. But one of the most special organizations that UET develops are the five seasonal schools for each faculty. This organization comes as UET already has two new faculties in its composition for 3 years in addition to the three previous ones.
High school tour
“High School Tour” is the development of informative and awareness-raising meetings regarding the career orientation of high school graduates, who are on the verge of making a decision about their education. This takes place within the career counseling week and includes all graduates of public and private schools in Albania. The team responsible for conducting these meetings consists of the academic staff as well as the admissions office, who periodically conduct this important process based on a preliminary action plan.
UET Tour/ Graduates visit the university
After having traveled as every year throughout Albania, as part of the “High School Tour”, advising and guiding the graduates who will soon face the choice of the field of study and the university where they will then be trained as professionals, the academic staff of the European University of Tirana has opened its doors today to welcome all those high school graduates who, after hearing in their school banks about the branches that this institution of higher education offers, have come to see up close what an ordinary day is like in university, thus becoming students in one day.
Career mentorship with high school teachers
Basically, Career Counseling involves the process through which students choose their profession based on their interests, skills, needs and personality, under the mentorship of a professional counselor. Understanding the importance of career counseling, the Pashko European Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Liberal Arts at UET conducts twice a year a training for high school principals and teachers for the career orientation of graduates. This project envisages three training sessions throughout the year, where the participants are trained by relevant specialists, so that at the end they are certified to be career counseling mentors. In addition, these trainings are also a discussion table for the main problems of pre-university education in the country and possible solutions for them.
500+ Programs
The 500+ program is a continuation of UET’s initiative to become a business university. This project includes the 500 largest companies in the country according to the official classification and is an extensive year-long cooperation project in various aspects.
Focusing on offering study programs that are close to market requirements, in order for graduates to be able and prepared to face all the challenges and surprises that their professional journey has in store, the European University of Tirana has created the 500+ program for 5 years now. This is a partnership project in several spheres, which keeps the academic world in constant contact with business or financial institutions through regular meetings with them. Part of this network are 100 companies, for each of the five Faculties of UET. The 500+ program aims to deepen and materialize cooperation with business and the labor market by offering all these companies a range of services, processes related to the nature of the institution and the tasks and goals these businesses have.
Labor market boards
UET as a “Business University” has taken various initiatives to connect the student as closely as possible with the labor market. In the second decade, the European University comes with five faculties and this comes with an innovation where the organization of the Labor Market Board is the main part in this second decade. At the UET forum there were 10 guests who touched more closely on the possibility of connecting to the labor market offering UET students a golden opportunity.
UET Open Weeks/ 5 Job Fairs for each faculty
A hall full of booths filled with company logos, piles of business card brochures, and maybe even a few stamped gifts to attract students are standard for a job fair, but that alone is not enough… Although for many years this method has resulted in success, the rapid pace of changes also imposes a more creative structuring of these fairs. This is a change that comes naturally and allows both entrepreneurs and job seekers to breathe freely and be more creative in their requests. So instead of wandering around the numerous company stands with quick and immediate interviews, students are becoming part of a new fair model that has just begun to be practiced in Western universities and that come to UET every year during the month of May.