CAREER EVENTS FOR CONNECTING NUCLEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS WITH INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH

Starting with 2024, the University of Pisa is organising Career Events in the frame of the ENEN2Plus project. Since the very beginning, the initiative has had the twofold approach to connect students with national and international industrial and research bodies, and to show them what the nuclear job market may offer in terms of future careers. In this aim, the series of Career Events, held twice to date in 2024 and 2025, was named: “Working in the Nuclear Field: Experience and Opportunities”, in which a basic ingredient is the presence of past-students of the MSc in Nuclear Engineering of the University of Pisa as speakers now working in the participating industrial and research bodies. This inspirational content of the events, organised as hybrid ones, owing to the experience gained during the Covid-19 pandemic in organising other series of events (webinars, celebration of the 80 years since the Fermi Pile criticality), resulted to be successful, matching some of the real needs and the curiosity that students enrolled in Nuclear Engineering in a non-nuclear country may have. The involvement of an experienced Career Service, delivering its services for free within the frame of the ENEN2Plus project, and of the Orchestra of the University of Pisa, playing remarkable pieces of classical music in addition to the European Anthem, are putting the basis for what is becoming a tradition to be continued in the years to come. The paper summarises the outcomes of the two past events and sketches the plan for future ones, also collecting impressions and suggestions from the students and the companies and research centres which participated in the initiative.