Curricular internship is a training activity allowing students to gain the total number of credits provided for by the study plan of their Course, but it is also an opportunity to acquire practical skills and facilitate the approach to the job market.
Our curricular internships are activated on the basis of an agreement between the University of Bologna and a host (a company/public body/NGOs/firm both in Italy and abroad) and of a trainee programme signed by both parties (company tutor, student and academic tutor/Traineeship Committee).
N.B. Curricular internships cannot be carried out with a company/organisation whose legal representative, associate or director has family relationships or similar relations (up to second degree relatives) with the applying student.
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) 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 (autocandidatura) to a specific firm/company/association.
Always verify the progress of your application:
2) 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.
3) If you wish to apply for an internship within the University you shall send your request (”autocandidatura”) 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 course on health and safety measures for work environments – Module 1 and 2 (compulsory for internal internships), click on “Presenta richiesta tirocinio in Unibo” stating which facilities is going to host you (e.g. Dipartimento, Laboratorio, Campus) 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 representative 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).
Monthly, 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.