Business internships are part of the wide range of situations that support productive in the University-Industry collaboration. In this context, business practices become favorable places where both business objectives and universities converge. This paper aims to understand two topics. Firstly, the fundamentals of business internships as a component of training by having real-world problems and based on relevant characterization of these experiences. Secondly the paper proposes a methodology of how to achieve internships as a place to search common objectives between the firms and universities. For this second objective is proposed a conceptual model to identify problems together, taking advantage of experience for businesses and updated knowledge developed within the university. Las prácticas o pasantías empresariales son parte de la amplia gama de situaciones que soportan las colaboraciones productivas en la relación Universidad-Empresa. En este contexto, las prácticas empresariales se convierten en lugares propicios en los que confluyen los objetivos empresariales y los de las universidades. Este documento está orientado a comprender por una parte los fundamentos de las prácticas empresariales como un componente de formación y beneficio de experiencia a través de problemas reales partiendo de una relevante caracterización de la práctica, y por otra parte el documento propone una metodología de cómo lograr prácticas empresariales que sean lugares de búsqueda de objetivos comunes entre la Empresa y la Universidad. Para este último propósito se propone un modelo conceptual que llega a identificar problemas empresariales, desde una perspectiva de análisis, basados en la experiencia y el conocimiento acumulado de los procesos académicos de formación desarrollado al interior de la universidad representada en los estudiantes y otros actores de la comunidad académica.

Objective: To understand the meaning of fear and how to face it, from the participant point of view. Methodology: Ethnographic qualitative research was made with children living on the street in Medellín city from 2005 to 2007. It was an apply observation, interviews and field book technics. Results and Discussion: The fear on the street is based on the fear to the other one, to lose the beloved one, to aggression, to be killed, to the pain caused by injuries, to be a drug addict, to lose freedom and to AIDS. The fear has several meanings “adrenalin” and “enemy”; the former allows the street people to run away and face some situations, and the latter paralyses and freezes them, so they can be caught, hurt or even killed. Conclusions: Fear is a survive strategy, which tries to change the enemy as fear into adrenalin, to protect themselves, using strategies like psychological training.