A curricular internship is a training activity designed to help you acquire professional skills to complement theoretical studies, enabling you to gain practical experience at companies, public institution and/or structures of the University of Bologna and to earn the relevant credits. To find out what types of internships are available, please read the first paragraph below.
Internship for the preparation of the final examination (elective). It allows students to complete a scientific project at a research laboratory or at a Company/Organisation and to gain 12/15/27 ECTS, depending on the selected activity.
To obtain 1 ECTS you must complete a minimum of 25 hours / a maximum of 30 hours of activity.
You can submit the application from the second year of the course onwards, after you have included it in your study plan and you have identified the thesis topic with your Thesis Supervisor.
In accordance with Legislative Decree 81/2008, as amended, and the State-Regions agreements, anyone undertaking a curricular internship is treated in the same way as employees and, consequently, must receive appropriate training in health and safety at work.
Before applying for an internship, ensure you have completed the workplace health and safety courses (Module 1 and Module 2) and read the Privacy Policy.
If you have already completed the General Training (Module 1), to be exempted, upload the general training certificate obtained from other institutions or companies in the ‘Safety Course Exemption’ section on Studenti Online (SOL).
Module 2, however, must be completed through the University’s training programme. Certificates obtained from other institutions are not valid.
If your internship takes place in environments with medium or high risk (such as, for example, an excavation site, a construction site, etc.), you will likely need to supplement your training with additional modules. Ask your tutor at the host organisation directly whether the certification you already hold is sufficient or whether it needs to be supplemented (for example, with “specific training for medium risk” or “high risk”).
For further information, please see the “Health and Safety mandatory training" page (link at the bottom of this page).
You got in touch with a Company/Institution which is disposed to welcome you as an intern
Please follow the passages below to activate an internship:
The internship cannot be carried out in Host Organizations whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties with the student applicant.
You are searching for an internship opportunity
Companies and Institutions that concluded an agreement with the University publish their offers on SOL-Internships. You have the possibility to:
- apply to an existing offer;
or
- consult the database of partnered Companies/Institutions in order to send a self-application.
If you need any help to prepare an effective CV, you can contact the Job Placement Service.
In both cases:
The internship cannot be carried out in host organisations whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties with the student applicant.
You want to carry out your internship at the University of Bologna
In accordance with your Academic Tutor, you must contact the Tutor of the chosen University structure/lab, then send a self-application through SOL-Internships:
The internship cannot be carried out in host organisations whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties with the student applicant.
You can carry out your internship abroad following one of the two paths listed below:
You must fill in your attendance record book with the hours of attendance, according to the authorized period. You must communicate any variations (ex. suspension, cancellation, etc.) from the approved programme by sending an e-mail to the Internship Office with the Academic Tutor and Tutor at the Host Organization in copy c/c.
Should you need to travel to locations not included in the approved programme, you can ask for the extension of the insurance by contacting the Academic Tutor by mail (with the Internship Office and Tutor at the Host Organization in copy c/c) and wait for the authorization.
During the whole internship period, you are insured against on-work injuries and third-party liability. For further information please consult the Insurance Policy webpage.
After completing the working hours of the internship, please upload to SOL-Tirocini:
Afterwards, you must wait for the Internship Board to register the internship activity to Almaesami. This procedure does not require the presence of the student and is conducted as any other teaching activity and observing the deadline for the graduation application.
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How can we help you: Activate and manage a curricular internship or one for the preparation for the final dissertation, in Italy and abroad, outside of international mobility programmes.
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