Orange Educational Program rewards new generations of graduates

Orange Educational Program, the educational project that raises future generations of telecommunications specialists and the first sustainability initiative implemented by Orange in Romania (1997), today awarded new graduates of the Orange Educational Program – the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

At the graduation gala, which took place at the Orange Training Center, 33 students, of which 52% were girls, received the diploma certifying the completion and completion of the Orange academic education program in the year 2022-2023.

Of these, 8 completed their undergraduate studies within the company, 3 were financially supported with scholarships worth 4,400 euros, and 8 became part of the Orange Romania team. Also, within the Orange Educational Program – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași, a session of courses and laboratories, SpringSchool 2023, was held in April, attended by over 50 students from Iași and the Republic of Moldova.

Added to these results are those registered within the Orange Educational Program – “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University from Iași, which awarded 2 PhD students. The total value of the investments made by Orange for the training of students is approximately 41,000 euros. At the same time, also this year, new generations of students became part of the Orange Educational Program: 28 young people in the initiative taking place at the Politehnica University of Bucharest and 3 at the Transilvania University of Brașov, who thus join the 9 university centers part of the program: Politehnica University of Bucharest (since 1997), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi (since 2018), “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi (since 2020), Ovidius University of Constanța (since 2020), University of ” Lucian Blaga” in Sibiu (from 2021), the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (from 2021), the Polytechnic University of Timișoara (from 2021), the West University of Timișoara (from 2021) and Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca (2022) ).

The scholarships that Orange will offer in the academic year 2023-2024 are worth 20,000 euros.

“We are honored to be present in the most important universities in Romania and to have strong technological partners with us, with whom we carry on the tradition of this reference program, through which we have been training future telecommunications specialists in Romania for 26 years. We applaud the achievements of the new generations of Orange Educational Program graduates who now have the skills to drive innovation in the telecom sector. We are convinced that the experience of the teachers and mentors, the opportunity to practice within Orange, the leader of the telecommunications market in Romania, as well as the access to the latest generation technologies are the differentiators that will continue to attract new students to the program, eager to develop professional”, said Marius Maican, Technology Director Orange Romania.

The Orange Educational Program is complementary to the Orange Fab and Orange 5G Lab programs.