Internships

How to activate an internship at a company or external organization

First, prepare an effective CV and a cover letter. If you need help, you can refer to the Job Placement services: Preparing for the world of work — Job Placement English Version

To set up your curricular internship, you have to log into SOL-Internships where you can:

1. Apply for the published internship offers;
2. Check the list of partner companies and send them a spontaneous application;

If you want to carry out your internship in a company that has not yet signed an agreement, send the organization the instructions  (the office of destination to select must be your reference structure) to register on our internship platform and provide the internship office with the name of the company/organization and the name of the person you are in contact with. Once the agreement is subscribed, the Internship Office will send the information to publish the offer for you.

After the company has accepted your application (for an offer or a spontaneous application), you  receive an email with the instructions to complete the activation procedure that will follow these steps: validation by the internship office, approval by the internship commission/academic tutor, signature of the program and printing of the attendance sheet.

Please consider that, from the moment your application is accepted by the host organization, it will take approximately 5/6 working days for the Internship Office to complete the activation procedure.

NB: Only once the program is signed by you and the company, you are allowed to download the attendance register from SOL - Internships in which you will find the definitive period of authorized performance and start the internship.

NB: Before starting the internship, you have to complete the Health and Safety Training Courses (Module 1 and Module 2). 

If you have already a safety certification - Module 1 - obtained outside of the University, you must verify its validity by writing to: sicurezza.formazione@unibo.it. Once obtained the confirmation of its validity, please send the confirmation mail and your safety certification to the Internship Office. The safety certification - Module 2 - must necessarily be obtained by the University of Bologna.  

PLEASE NOTE:

• the authorized internship period is the one indicated in the attendance sheet (which may be different from the one in the offer or in the autonomous application) and that it is not possible to start the internship activity without having correctly completed the entire procedure, under penalty of non-validation of the hours, it is also not possible to continue the internship beyond the end date indicated on the attendance sheet. In case of extensions, it is necessary to contact the internship office. The number of hours indicated on the attendance register must be respected.

• Internships, as well as all other academic activities, must be carried out in presence, the academic tutor only, once checked the internship program can authorize students to work remotely.
• students cannot carry out internships within a host organization whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties within the 2nd grade with the student applicant.

 You would like to carry out your internship within a lab or office of the University of Bologna

In agreement with your Internship Academic Tutor and with the reference person of the chosen University structure or lab, then send an application via SOL-Internships:

1. please make sure to complete the compulsory modules on Health and Safety (Module 1 and 2) Please note: the procedure can't start if both modules are not completed.
2. select the button “Apply for Internship within Unibo";
3. fill in all the requested fields;
4. wait for the email confirming that your request has been validated;
5. after the Internship Board has approved the activity for you, you will receive another e-mail indicating how to activate your internship and the link to sign the program online (PLEASE, check that the reference person at the Unibo Department/Office had signed the program as well);
6. download from SOL-Internships the attendance sheet, where you will find the period for the internship approved (which may differ from that of the original internship offer).  

Please, remember that:   

• If you have already a safety certification - Module 1 - obtained outside of the University, you must verify its validity by writing to sicurezza.formazione@unibo.it. Once obtained the confirmation of its validity, please send the confirmation mail and your safety certification to the Internship Office. The safety certification - Module 2 - must necessarily be obtained by the University of Bologna. 
• you can start your internship only after all the involved partners have signed your internship programme and only after you have downloaded the attendance sheet.

 You would like to carry out your internship abroad

You can carry out your internship outside of Italy following one of the two possibilities listed below:

• by participating in a mobility programme (ex: Erasmus+ Mobility for Traineeship, grants for preparing your dissertation abroad, etc.);
• by contacting a company/institution located abroad, and following the passages explained above.

Your would like an external working activity to be recognized as a curricular internship

If you have completed an external activity (a non-curricular internship, a placement, etc.) that you think is relevant to your study field, you can ask for its recognition as a curricular internship. Check the information on how to submit your request on the related page.

 What to do during the internship

• Fill in your attendance sheet, in compliance with the period approved for your internship.
• If, for any reason, you wish to interrupt or extend your internship, or if you have concluded/accomplished your tasks and hours earlier than planned, you must inform the Internship Office, with the Internship Academic Tutor and your reference person in the host organization in carbon copy (cc).
• Should you need to travel to locations not included in the approved program, you can ask for an insurance extension to the Internship Academic Tutor. Please email him or her with the Internship Office and reference person at the host organization in carbon copy, then wait for your request to be approved.
• During the whole internship period, you are insured against accidents at work and third-party liability claims. For further information, please consult the Insurance Policy webpage.