Internship Product Development

To facilitate making the right choice in terms of a suitable internship / product development task, it is important to make three decisions:
 

• Orientation of task. You may want to choose a product development task that is more education-oriented (for instance, making a lesson module for a museum type environment) or more communication-oriented (for instance, making an information folder for a patients’ organization).
• Favourite target audience. Choose the target audience you would most like to work with, f.i. adults, school kids, young children, etc.
• Focus of task. Decide whether you would like a task that is closely related to your own bachelor knowledge (f.i. making a masterclass in ecology or biochemistry for talented secondary education students) or whether the product can be more general, just focused on science as a whole (f.i. trying to enthuse kids for science in a festival setting). 

1. The product development task should deal with science content (preferably related to your own area of expertise).
2. The product development task should clearly be communication / education oriented.
3. The product development task should be targeted at making a concrete product (so not primarily working on a specific research question the organization has, like for instance a ‘target audience analysis’, aimed at finding new target audiences for a product).
4. The planning of the practical work of the course (depending on your roster and chosen electives you will have to divide the 20 ECTS over period 1&2 or 3&4) should be workable for the internship organization.
5. The product development task should entail a product you can work on / develop in a planned way (a personal task), allowing you enough time to do the necessary analyses for the development process first, and then, based on these analyses, you can make the product.
6. Ideally the product should be something the organization is waiting for and which will be used after you are gone.