I'd like to participate in projects that will enable/ provide an opportunity to apply my knowledge in practice.

Thank you, Tatiana and Uly!

Tatiana, I actually really like APPLY. Just a few fixes: I’d like to participate in projects that will provide ME THE opportunity to apply my knowledge/skillset.

Sorry... in practice.

Aha! Thank you))

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collaborating - это сотрудничество. Не очень удачное слово для письма о приеме на работу, тем более от студента

In this context, it just means to work with other people on something.

OK, you know better

Why would COLLABORATION be so strange in Russian? Don’t student collaborate with others on things - especially in prospective jobs?

I think that's because the contexts where we could find it were exclusively economic or political ones.

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I think that's because the contexts where we could find it were exclusively economic or political ones.

Not exclusively. You can find it in science, research as well as other areas. However, as I see it, normally it's between groups with lot of resourses and capabilities. It can be one person, but a well established one. For a newcomer graduate, currently a student, it sounds far too ambitious to me, not to say immodest.