What to do to carry out an internship at a company, public body or internal university structure.
The internship activity is an experience planned to complete your academic education with practical work at companies, public offices or labs within the University of Bologna.
The Degree Programme includes two internships, both elective:
- internship. It allows students to gain 5 credits (CFU) and it may be linked to the internship for the final examination or could be another training experiences to be carried out under the framework of another project; if you enrolled before Academic Year 2025/2026 curricular internship allows you to gain 6 credits (CFU)
- Internship for preparation for the final examination. It allows students to gain 21 credits (CFU). You can submit your application after choosing the thesis supervisor/academic tutor and the thesis subject, whether the internship takes place within the University of Bologna or outside, in Italy or abroad (to find Internship opportunities, check the document in the box Highlights and contact professors for information).
Since 1 CFU = minimum 25 hours/maximum 30 hours, the curricular internship of 6 CFU requires minimum 150/maximum 180 hours of activity, while internship for preparation for the final examination of 21 CFU requires minimum 525/maximum 630 hours of activity.
You can apply for the both internships starting from the second semester of the second Course year (at the end of classes of the first semester), after selecting them in your study plan (please read the information on how to modify the study plan) and only if you have already registered 60 CFU.
Please follow the passages below to activate an internship:
The internship cannot be carried out in Host organisations whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties with the student applicant.
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.
In accordance with your academic tutor, you must contact the tutor of the Host organisation (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 of the Host organisation 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 e-mail (with the Internship office and tutor of the Host organisation 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.
The internship, like any other course in your study plan, must be recorded on AlmaEsami.
If you are heading to graduate, please note that the registration of the internship ECTS must be done by the deadline for meeting the requirements for the admission to the degree examination.
In order to have ECTS of the internship recorded by the deadline, you must upload to SOL-Internships the documents required for the completion of the internship at least 10 working days before the due date of fulfilling the requirements.
In any case, after completing the required internship hours, you have to log in to SOL-Internships, enter the date of your last day of attendance at the Host organisation, corresponding to the end date reported on the attendance record book on page 2, and upload the following documents:
Then, you must fill out the internship questionnaire.
If you have carried out more than one internship, you must upload the required documentation for each internship you have done.
After uploading the documentation and completing the questionnaire:
1) the internship office checks the attendance record book
2) the academic tutor evaluates the pdf with the evaluation of the tutor of the Host organisation
3) the Internship Board records the expected ECTS of the internship on AlmaEsami
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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Evaluation of the tutor of the Host organisation
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