Each academic semester many full time LiepU international students receive Erasmus+ scholarships for studies or internship abroad. Students can choose whether to go for one or two semesters to study abroad in our partner university or to gain professional skills in the company outside Latvia.
LiepU master level study program's "Information Technology" student Vithange Sampath Madhuranga shares his experiences made during his internship in IT company “ENCORE LAB” in Spain.
My internship program is a mandatory part of master’s degree and professional qualification offered by the university. I found a great internship opportunity as a Full Stack Engineer in a IOT company located in Logrono, Spain, which is known as “ENCORE LAB S.L”. Earlier I had only frontend engineering experience and all the time I looked for an opportunity to be a Full-stack engineer. With this Erasmus internship opportunity, I became a Full-stack engineer and It will be a turning point of my professional career and my life as well. The ENCORE LAB company is specialized in the IOT industry, and they have their own products and out of them the main product is “Cesens”. It is made for agriculture purposes, which measures most of the factors needed for crops in the farms and shows some analytics and predictions in the application. They are mainly focused on the grape’s farms in the region, because the city Logrono is popular for wine in Spain and the city also known as “Wine City”. Around thirty employees work for the company, and they are from different parts of Spain and the world such as Tunisia, Turkey and India. They are well skilled and very smart at their professions. I am very happy to meet those people and collaborate with them because every moment I worked with them I grabbed something valuable into my life. I learnt a little bit of the Spanish language as well.
During my internship period, one of the main clients of the company invited all the company employees to visit their winery and explained every process of the wine production. It was a great and once in a lifetime experience in my life. In the summertime I visited some popular places in the city. In that area, a lot of shops, bars, restaurants, cafes are located on both sides of the pedestrian. Most of these shops include their traditional meals and foods such as “Patatas bravas”, “Champinones Al Ajillo”. My favorite outdoor place is called “Laurel” which is very popular for summer midnight celebrations among the locals.
I am very happy to say I enjoyed every minute of my life in the last six months and gained a lot of experience and knowledge in software engineering. It is one of the happiest periods of my entire life. I am very grateful to the Liepaja university and Internal relations office for giving me this opportunity and every support provided during my internship.
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