DEPT® Campus Partnership program

DEPT® Campus Partnership Program

We care about the development of the next generation of creatives, that’s why we want to be in touch with them in the earliest stage possible. To establish this, we launched the DEPT® Campus Partnership program for Universities and Educators. Our Partnership Program offers a range of activities tailor-made for each university academic year. By becoming a partner of our Partnership Program, you give students the chance to get in touch with the agency life. We believe this will reduce the gap between student life and work life and help students shape themselves into amazing young talents.

What’s in the Partnership Program

Foundations

The foundations for becoming a creative is where it all starts. We have activities in place that will introduce students into the creative industry. Understanding what all the fuzz is about and how to find your way in it. We will help them set those strong foundations.

Profiling

After setting the foundations students will get a feeling of what might be right for them. It’s time to start profiling themselves a little bit towards a certain role. With activities in this stage, we start building up their hard skills but also their soft skills.

Mastering

Yes, time to wrap things up and get ready for the real world. Deep-diving into and mastering the skills learned so far is how students will get the chance to become that award-winning young talent and land their first dream job.

Three program components

Foundations

Office visit
A group of students visit our office to get an impression of what working at a digital agency is like.

Inspirational talk
An expert from DEPT® visits your university and tells a story about their career and what working at DEPT® is like.

(Online) Q&A
We can host a 1hr Q&A session where questions can be asked about something related to a course or work life.

Speeddate event
During a speeddate event students can ask our experts everything they want about the Industry

Profiling

1 day internship
To understand how we practise our skills day to day a student can do a 1 day internship at DEPT®.

Workshops
Experts can host a workshop at your university or in our office about inspirational topics related to your courses.

Masterclass
Experts can give a theoretical talk about a topic related to your courses or present a case.

Expert reviews
During a school project we can provide students 1 hour a week with expert reviews.

Mastering

Full internship
During the internship a student will be assigned to a buddy that will teach them everything from the field. They will work on real projects with real clients!

Portfolio review
During our Portfolio Review Night students get the chance to get professional feedback on their portfolio and land the internship of their dreams.

Jury
An Expert can be part of a jury during a project or challenge to help grade the students works.

Graduation internship
Together with an expert we will form a case for your graduation internship that interests both you and DEPT®.

Design jam
During our Annual Design Jam, students get the chance to work on a case for an NGO. Together with a group of 25 students we will do a complete service design challenge in two days.

As a DEPT® Campus Partner you get the opportunity to mix and match activities that fit within your curriculum. You can decide which activities, when and what frequency.

How the partnership works

Becoming a partner means that you can approach us for all of the activities mentioned above. To become a partner:

Reach out to us to discuss which activities you would like to pick from our menu card
Together we will figure out what to do and when
To bring our partnership out in the open we will put your logo on our DEPT® Campus website
We will organise quarterly partner meetings to evaluate your experience and the activities

Contact us

Get in touch

UX Designer & Campus Lead Nienke van Kuijk

Front-end Engineer & Campus Lead Menno de Vries