LangOptima is a partner organization in the University of Warwick’s TeaMWork programme, one of the student programs we currently take part in. We put a real challenge in front of a multidisciplinary team of students from Warwick and partner universities around the world, then mentor them through it for four weeks, the way we would lead a project team in industry.
Programme partners
The programme
TeaMWork is the University of Warwick’s online international experience programme. It connects organizations with multidisciplinary teams of students from Warwick and partner universities around the world. Partners include Monash University, with campuses across Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The teams work together on a real project over four weeks, and LangOptima takes part as one of those partner organizations.
We bring a genuine project or business challenge from the work we do: enterprise AI, knowledge graphs, language technology, or growth. It is real work, not a classroom exercise.
Six to eight students from Warwick and partner universities, across different disciplines and time zones, form a team for the project. Many are working with teammates in another country, people they have never met.
The team works online over four weeks. Students start with an onboarding workshop to build their employability skills, and have access to an organization mentor throughout. The mentoring is the part we lead.
Our role
As the organization mentor, we set the brief, meet the team through the project, and give the kind of direction and feedback students would get at work. The aim is simple: a piece of work the team is proud of, and four weeks that feel like industry rather than coursework.
We introduce the challenge, the context, and what a good outcome looks like, then help the team shape a plan and split the work across their disciplines.
Regular check-ins to unblock the team, react to what they find, and keep the work pointed at the outcome. We answer questions the way a client or manager would.
The team presents what they built. We give honest, useful feedback on both the work and how they worked together, the kind they can carry into internships and first jobs.
For universities & institutions
If you run a course, module, or industry-experience program at a university and would like your students to work on genuine enterprise AI, data, language-technology, or growth challenges, we would like to hear from you. They would be mentored by someone who does this work every day. TeaMWork is one of the programmes we currently take part in, and we are open to working with other institutions and programs too.
You can also write directly to edwin.trebels@langoptima.com, or use the contact page.