The Faculty of Pharmacy has held the Introductory Session of the COIL (collaborative online international learning) project titled 'Your Career Opportunities Worldwide. Learning from the experience and personal view of professionals in the sector', promoted by the Vice President for Internationalization of the University. In this collaboration with the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and Coventry University (UK), students are being offered an international experience through which they will learn first-hand how the most important career opportunities in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and nutrition and dietetics sectors are changing in different countries.

A total of 102 students and 38 professors from the Pharmacy, Biotechnology, and Nutrition and Dietetics degrees of the three Universities are participating in this COIL. Additionally, more than 70 professionals--working in more than 60 institutions in 10 different countries--will take part.

During the introductory session, the COIL organizers Carmen Pérez García, Carolina Hurtado, Paola Otero, Elena Alonso, María Achón, and Mª del Pilar Ramos informed the students of the activities programmed throughout the second semester:

·       Lectures given by leading experts in each professional sector, in which they will give participants an insider’s perspective of their sector and explain how to land a job in it.

·       Student interviews with professionals from different fields related to their degree. For this, the students will work in international teams of students from the 3 participating universities.

·       An International conference in which students will give presentations on various professional opportunities. In addition, this conference will include several plenary sessions, round tables on entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation, and job search workshops (personal branding, LinkedIn, CV). The conference will be held on July 3rd and will be open to all interested people (students, professionals, and graduates) from inside and outside the participating universities.

In the COIL introductory session, the founders of the Farma Leaders Talento platform, Inés Martínez Bragado and Irene Campo-Frías have also participated, organizing several activities that promoted student interaction and knowledge of the culture of the participating countries.