Kristianstad Akademi

Through an EU-funded project, companies will get help from student consultants for free to develop their business. At the same time, students receive personal development and salary for hours spent on the project. Today we can see a strong need for skills supply as a criterion for keeping students and companies attractive in the market. Take the chance to develop through Kristianstad Akademi! Take the opportunity to develop by becoming a student consultant!

What is the purpose of the project?

Kristianstad Akademi is undergoing an EU-funded project where the purpose is for businesses and students to get in touch with each other. As a student consultant, you and other students will carry out projects together with small and medium-sized companies. We are now looking for students who want to complete various projects.

What does it mean to be a student consultant?

As a consultant, you work project-oriented and get paid for the agreed hours included in the project (120 SEK per hour). In addition to salary, you will receive an invaluable deposit in the work experience account. The project’s length can vary between 10–40 hours, depending on the project’s extent or how many students there are on the project. You will complete one project at a time.

As an active student consultant at Kristianstad Academy, you give yourself a chance for personal development in addition to your studies. It is your curiosity and desire for personal development that is the basis for the outcome. You get in touch with employers in the region and get the opportunity to work with real consulting services that can lead to employment. In addition, we will create inspiring workshops that will generate personal development. Through our educational efforts, student consultants can be inspired by other like-minded students who want to develop in leading themselves. 

No obligation to participate in all projects that come up. It is always you who decides whether you have the time, energy, and ability to get involved in a project. You register your interest in what you want to implement. In some cases, you will be in a team with several different students from different programs, so there will be many different views when you take on a project. You will be able to learn a lot from each other.

Earlier projects

• Jobbarenan: The students worked on finding innovative suggestions for new ways of working that make Jobbarenan stand out in the market. The students presented their solutions with two different suggestions to the customer. One that was a little more innovative and overall for the entire market, and another one a little more focused on how Jobbarenan should proceed in their current company.
• Autoform Group: The students have worked with marketing and making the company more homogeneous because several companies have now merged into what today is Autoform Group. The students worked with both external marketing and internal marketing. They presented e.g. suggestions for logos, taglines and different value propositions.
• Bagers Mjöl: Five students at gastronomiprogrammet have already during their course worked with Bagers Mjöl and to develop a pizza dough for them on their flour. They came very far in their work during the course and have now worked with this also in collaboration with Kristianstad Akademi. They have come up with a very good pizza dough on the flour which hopefully in the future can lead to sales in grocery stores.
• QSI: Four students have worked on a project aimed at attracting the younger generation to the IT industry. A very exciting project where the students worked for something that in the long run can help decision makers in Skåne to decide which way is best to go to get more people interested in the IT industry. The students made a presentation of most of the suggestions and ideas that the company's CEO Henrik can now take further on and develop.  
• Sparbanken Skåne: Two students mapped how customer service officials place their working hours. They worked in the office in Kristianstad to be able to carry out this project and then compiled their survey in an Excel file. The customer is satisfied and happy with the result that the students managed to achieve through their involvement in the project. 
• Framtidsberättelsen: Paula who works with Framtidsberättelsen needed help with her marketing and writing texts for the website as it is a newly started company. She received help from two students with this plus received several valuable inputs in her company and the concept she presents.
• Hästveda: The municipality wanted help with how they could do to attract more residents and create a stronger brand.
• Digital marketing: Small companies that have had websites that did not work, have not been recognized in the market or require help to digitize their way of reaching customers etc.
• Everöds Airport wanted help to systematize their work environment. Got help formulating rules and routines for how the employer must regularly examine, assess risks, and promote a better work environment.

What is required?

• Interest - that's actually all that is required. Interest in developing yourself, especially with companies!
• Ability to think - The projects require innovative thinking (this you will be trained through "crash courses" which is an education Kristianstad Akademi offers all student consultants → Toy Imagine).
• Orientation (ie what education you go to or what type of project it is) is not the interesting thing - Your interest is the most valuable. (of course, the right knowledge is needed for some projects to be possible to implement).

What does this mean?

• Students come up with innovative ideas in something that exists but does not work in the business.
• You get paid to be creative.
• You open up the possibilities for yourself.
• You get the opportunity to use the tools you get through your studies in internships.
• You get contacts and create references for future career.
• It is the interest that counts.
• Crash courses are offered (with a focus on innovation).