Testimonials
Lucia Grenna
“I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate how pleased I am with this partnership between the World Bank and AICEP. It has been already 7 years since we started receiving interns from the Contacto Program and each one of the 9 interns that we have hosted so far has gone beyond expectations in terms of commitment, hard work, team spirit and congeniality. I wish this partnership will continue and look forward to receiving information about applications for future editions.”
EXTOC External Affairs, The World bank – Washington
Antonio Horta Osorio
“It is when thinking about this international experience that made me a more prepared, more flexible, more complete business manager that I feel that the Contacto Programme is a clear window of opportunity for achieving wider horizons of knowledge and personal and professional growth.”
Chairman of the Totta Group
Jochen Förster
"...The INOV Contacto Programme is an excellent opportunity for us to strengthen our ongoing activities as it gives us the freedom to test additional scientific hypotheses. On the other hand, trainees have the chance to get insight into a foreign work environment, and hereby to gain work experience and to apply their university knowledge for the first time. Altogether, we clearly have a win-win situation for both the company and the trainee."
Chief Operating Officer, Fluxome Sciences
Paulo Magalhães
”The INOV Contacto Programme is an excellent opportunity for us to strengthen our ongoing activities as it gives us the freedom to test additional scientific hypotheses. On the other hand, trainees have the chance to get insight into a foreign work environment, and hereby to gain work experience and to apply their university knowledge for the first time. Altogether, we clearly have a win-win situation for both the company and the trainee."
Cisco - Linksys
Emílio Rui Vilar
“... The outstanding results of this experience attest to the quality of the candidates (and to the right selection criteria) and the excellent preliminary preparation that the programme guarantees in Portugal. Participating in the Contacto Programme also means resuming an old responsibility. Let us not forget that the first globalisation was the work of our ancestors, the Portuguese discoverers of the 16th century.”
Chairman of the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Francisco Neto
“In late 1997, I joined Logoplaste through the newly established Contacto 1. Clutching my Economics diploma, I was keen to spend a few months abroad and felt safe because I knew I was in good hands. I had complete faith not only in the ICEP, which was sponsoring the programme but also in those who had created it. Of course there was a degree of uncertainty and a feeling of adventure, starting with the fact that neither Logoplaste nor I had any say in the matter. There were no interviews, job descriptions or concrete goals. It was like meeting your bride for the first time at the altar. Today, after more than five intense years abroad, I work in the International Financial Department at Logoplaste, providing support to different countries in terms of financial and commercial management and new projects, continuing a career in international management whose doors were opened to me by Contacto. It is therefore a great pleasure to see the Contacto Programme continuing. It has always inspired exclamations of genuine admiration (and a degree of envy) from all those to whom I have described it over the years.”
International Financial Director of Logoplaste
Antonio Horta Osorio