Curricular Internship

Internship is not compulsory for your curriculum, but you can add it to the study plan of your third year for the purpose of getting your degree, for partial coverage of the “Group of Elective Courses (TAF D)” or to gain extra credits. The duration of the internship is at least 250 hours (with the possibility to increase this amount by 20% so to get to 300 hours maximum and only upon agreement between company tutor, student and academic tutor) and it is worth 10 CFU.

Prerequisites

1. Enrol to the third academic year
2. Add the internship to your study plan: download Form 1 (see Attachment), fill it in, sign it and send it to the Programme Coordinator in order to be authorised by the Course Coordinator.
   N.B. Before submitting your Form 1 make sure you have found a firm or a company interested in hosting you as intern. In case there is no agreement in place between the firm/company/association of your choice, the agreement procedure will be taken over only after Form 1 has been authorised. 
3. Follow the online course on health and safety training courses – Module 1 and 2 as required by the D. Lgs. Number 81 of the 9^th of April 2008. The assessment of the safety certifications is up to the host firm/company/association. The training is compulsory and consists of two modules:  General Training and Specific Training - Low Risk.

Find the Internship of your choice on Internships - Student Access

A) Internships may be carried out at one of the Alma Mater facilities or externally, at a firm/company/association – in Italy or abroad – which is regularly registered with Unibo.

Unibo provides the Internships - Student Access – the platform dedicated to Internships. Logging with your University credentials you can submit your application to one or more internship offers between those on the list, or submit a request (self candidation) to a specific firm/company/association.

Always verify the progress of your application:

• Upload your CV and motivational letter as a single PDF and choose an academic tutor between those in the list of Academic tutors’ (see Attachment). To make your application even more impressive ask for help from our services of professional guidance!
• Wait for the acceptance (or rejection) from the host. Upon acceptance of your application, the company referent draws an Internship Programme (stating the training objectives, methods of implementation, activities to perform, times of access to the facilities, name of the internal tutor and internship headquarter) that you have to accept in turn. The Programme is then verified firstly by the internship office and then by the academic tutor.
• Internship approval. Upon validation by the academic tutors, the applications are submitted to the Internship Committee for the final authorisation.
• Online signature. Once the Internships are authorised by the Committee, students and host companies sign the Internship Programme through the online platform.
• Download and print the Attendance Register. Here you’ll find the definitive period agreed and authorised – in the absence of this document you won’t have any insurance coverage.

B) In case you find a firm/company/association which is available to host your Internship but has not registered yet with us, once the Coordinator has authorised your new study plan you should provide the internship office with the company details (name of the company, name of the responsible, email, and phone number) in order for us to start the agreement procedure.

N.B.: The timing of the agreements depends on the turnaround time of the firm/company/association; in case of companies/firms/associations not registered with us yet, the timeline from the registration procedure to the actual beginning of your internship may take approximately 60 days.

C) If you wish to apply for an internship within the University you shall send your request (“self candidation”) through Internships - Student Access : agree with both tutors (in this case they could be the same person) the objectives and the activities, follow the online training course on health and safety  – Module 1 and 2  (compulsory), write down which facilities is going to host you (e.g. Department, Laboratory, Facilities, Campus Offices) and wait for the acceptance and validation of your request.

You are required to carry out your Internship within the period between the start and the end dates as stated on the attendance register and ensure as much continuity as possible. On the attendance register you shall report for each day: date, amount of hours and activities, all signed by the internal tutor.

Remember to monitor the amount of hours you have completed in order to get to the total amount; this can be increased by 20% so to achieve the internship objectives as agreed between company representative, student and academic tutor.

Your representatives are the company’s tutor/supervisor and the academic tutor.

In case of travel to a site not indicated in the internship programme, the company tutor must notify the academic tutor the following: date, time, place, reason of the travel and who is going to accompany the student. Thus, the travel is possible only upon authorization by the academic tutor. By no means the student is entitled to travel by himself (in this case there is no insurance coverage).

You can choose not to start, to withdraw or interrupt your internship for reasons that do not allow further continuation: in this case you must notify your academic tutor stating your reasons and inform the internship office about your decision.

To all students attending an internship programme within the framework of this University, an appropriate insurance coverage against accidents at work and third-party liability claims is provided.

Remember that in case of travel to places or facilities not included and stated in the Internship Programme it is necessary to be authorised by the academic tutor in order to have the insurance coverage granted (see “Attendance Register and Travels”)

• Upload the Attendance Register online via the Internships - Student Access (pages 1 and 2 and all the pages where you have reported the daily activities; page 2 must be signed and stamped by the host company).
• Complete and upload the final report (see “Final report -Drafting indication” attached) in order to have it validated by the tutor.
• Fill in the online final questionnaire.

The internship office checks all the documents uploaded online and reports the list of completed internships to the Internship Committee in charge of the internship verbalization.

Undergraduates: take into account the deadline for graduation requirements! Contact the internship office to make sure the Internship is registered within this deadline

The Course regulations do not contemplate the recognition of work experience as an internship.

The Course regulation do not contemplate the Internship for final exam.

If you wish to undertake an Internship after graduation you have the possibility to go through the list on Internships - Student Access and apply for an offer. From here on, however, the procedure will be managed by the Promoting Institutions authorised by the Region where the Internship is actually carried out. It is not possible to apply for Internship after graduation abroad.