What is TAEF Fellows Program?
The Tunisian American Enterprise Fund Fellows Program connects students seeking career and entrepreneurship opportunities and companies seeking talent.
Students from various disciplines are matched to companies to work on specific projects either as interns or volunteers. All participating companies have received investments from TAEF.
TAEF’s Fellows program benefits:
- Students work on meaningful projects for real companies
- Students gain work experience and hone their skills
- Students join a growing group of committed, talented and creative Fellows
- Companies have access to talented students
- Companies are able to tackle special projects
Internship opportunity
The Tunisian American Enterprise Fund Fellows is a unique internship program designed to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people and to provide talented interns to TAEF investees. Originally, TAEF Fellows worked with 6 students from 5 universities and a few companies.The success of that experiment has led to the growth of the program:
- Open up to students from all Tunisian universities
- Internships are offered in the summer and throughout the year
- Any TAEF portfolio company may participate
- Company projects are well defined and students are supervised and supported
- Opportunities exist for students in many disciplines including software engineer, administration, marketing, research
- TAEF offers additional training for students
- Volunteer opportunities have been added during the Covid era
TAEF Fellows Program Today
At the beginning of 2021, we are in our fourth edition with a total of 67 Fellows from 20+ Tunisian Universities throughout the country. Our Fellows family is getting bigger. We hope that over time, being a TAEF Fellow will become a mark of distinction. A network of former fellows will carry the TAEF brand, support SME, startups and Microfinance institutions growth in Tunisia and provide a cohort for the young professionals.
Volunteer opportunity
In light of worldwide COVID 19 pandemic and the consequent slowdown of the economy, TAEF decided to include a volunteer option in its Fellows program. The volunteer option offers professional growth opportunities to students at a time when companies – especially the SME companies that we finance – are less able to hire employees. The benefits to the volunteer:- Professional experience in a time when companies are slow to hire
- Build your professional network
- Apply your learning to real company problems
- Join a cohort of other committed, talented students
- Join TAEF as we support our companies and people during this difficult time