Vodafone takes university students to Bell Labs

Vodafone Qatar and Alcatel-Lucent have announced a joint agreement to take six university students for an internship programme at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs located in Europe and the United States.

The Bell Labs programme is considered to be one of the most sought-out internship programmes of its kind in the world and one that is highly regarded by many in the engineering industry.

Vodafone Qatar will reach out to several universities in Qatar to choose two of its top performing students to join the 2-month programme which will kick-start in June 2014.

"The programme will entail a hands-on experience of the best in the academic and corporate realms for these students to leave the Bell Labs programme with an unparalleled exposure to the birthplace of many of the 20th century's most influential technologies, which continues to drive the development of the communications' networks of the future," the company said in a statement.

"We are always seeking to enrich the Bell Labs research community with new talent, new skills and new perspectives. This program with Vodafone Qatar offers a great opportunity to meet and work with some of the top students at Qatar's universities, while providing them with a chance to collaborate with world-renowned research teams," said Thierry Van Landegem, Vice President for Research Collaborations at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs.