Curricular Internship

According to your degree Course, the internship is an educational activity of your choice, available under the "Group of Various Activities - TAF F" that may be selected in the study plan of your second year to get your degree. The internship may be activated at any time during the year.

The required length of the internship, given by the number of credits allocated to this activity = 8 CFU, is 200 hours (the number of hours may be extended by 20% upon agreement between the company, academic tutor, and student if deemed necessary to achieve the internship objectives).

You may add one more internship to your study plan (with the same duration and CFU, aka 200 hours and 8 CFU) but your request will require an evaluation and approval by the Degree Director. This additional internship may only replace an activity of “Group of Elective Courses TAF D”; it may be useful when you agree with the host company on a longer internship period (i.e. 480 hours equivalent to 3 months of internship), or if you want to carry out a second internship in a different company/body.

If you take part in a call for applications for departmental or university traineeships and are awarded a grant, your career will be automatically updated by the Student Administration Office.

• Enroll in the academic year in which you intend to undertake the internship
• Include the internship/s in your study plan: the INTERNSHIP covering the " Group of Various activities TAF F” 8 CFU planned for the second year, can be entered when the online study plans are available on Studenti Online SOL. Outside these timeframes, download the Internship Application Form (see Attachment), fill it in, sign it, and send it to the Program Coordinator for approval by the Degree Director.
  You may anticipate this INTERNSHIP to 1st year: download the Internship Application Form (see Attachment), fill it in, sign it, apply a €16 revenue stamp, and send it to the Program Coordinator for approval by the Degree Director.
  You also may apply for an additional INTERNSHIP I within the Elective Course Group (TAF D): download the Internship Application Form, fill it in, sign it, and send it to the Program Coordinator and attend the evaluation by your Degree Director.
  N.B.: Before submitting the form, please ensure that you have found a company or institution interested in hosting you as an intern and sign an agreement with the University of Bologna.
• Follow the online mandatory training on Health and Safety: these modules (Module 1 and Module 2) are mandatory as required by the D. Lgs. Number 81 of the 9th of April 2008. The assessment of the safety certifications is up to the host firm/company/association.

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-candidate”) to a specific firm/company/association.

Verify online the whole process:

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

B) In case you find a firm/company/association that is available to host your Internship but has not registered yet with us, once the Degree Director has authorized 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) 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 30 days.

C) If you wish to apply for an internship within the University you shall send your request (”self-candidate”) 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 mandatory training on Health and Safety, indicate the facility (department, laboratory, office) that will host you 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: the date, number of hours, and activities, all signed by the internal tutor.

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

Your representatives are the company’s representative and the academic tutor.

In case of travel to sites that are not indicated in the internship program, the company tutor must notify in advance the academic tutor of the following: date, time, place, reason for 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 to 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 program within the framework of this University, 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 authorized by the academic tutor to have the insurance coverage granted (see Attendance Register and Travels)

• Upload the Attendance Register online via Internships - Student Access (pages 1, 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 Attachment “Final Report - Drafting Indication” ) to have it validated by your 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: consider the deadline for graduation requirement! 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 or other training activities as a curricular internship.

If you wish to undertake an Internship after graduation you can 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 authorized by the Region/Country where the internship is carried out. It is not possible to apply for an internship after graduation abroad.