Each year, the University of Burundi organizes research internships for finalist students in collaboration with various institutions, both state and private. It is in this context that 11 students from the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology in the 3rd year Bachelor's degree training courses at the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection (OBPE). The activities began on February 20, 2017 with the contact between the student interns and the head of the biodiversity research department at OBPE, Msc. Nzigidahera Benoît.

These courses, which focused on “Analysis of the specific richness of certain families of flora in protected areas in Burundi”, have a period of one month, including 3 weeks devoted to research activities and one week to the writing of the report to be presented. This contact was concluded by defining the working methods and showing the intern students the outline of the document to be presented.