TPV in the Organizations or Companies

To host students for the purposes of a Practical Evaluation Internship (TPV), the organizations or companies must comply with two fundamental requisites:

• The conformity/eligibility to become a TPV host organization, which must be recognized by the CTI - Integrated Traineeship Committee (including members of University and of Register of Psychologists);
• The establishment of an agreement for internship activities with the University of Bologna.

The organizations and companies already qualified and having an agreement with our University are available within the Unibo Internship Service Online, where you can consult and find out potential, active TPV internship opportunities and from the Database of the Regional Register of Psychologists.

The TPV internship can also be carried out at our University’s laboratories or structures (within your Degree programme or Department): consult the list of the available structures or labs in the Annexes.

It is possible to make new organizations or companies eligible for hosting TPV internships, with the establishment of an agreement with our University: consult the information in this Web page.

After having identified the host company or organization and having agreed with the company’s relevant psychologist tutor the period and duration of the internship, as well as the details of your TPV project, you will have to submit your application via the Unibo Online Internship Service. To submit your application:

1. Make sure that the company/organization is already qualified for hosting a TPV internship and has already entered an agreement with our University; in case it is not qualified yet and hasn’t agreement, the company shall abide by the indications to enter an agreement with Unibo and apply for becoming qualified/eligible to host TPV internships

2. Complete your TPV application in one of the following modes:

• ‘Ad personam’ internship opportunity: ask the company’s or organization's reference person to enter and upload an internship opportunity dedicated to you, with your Italian Tax ID, directly in the Unibo Internship Service. The company’s reference person shall attach, in the online modality, the project that has already been evaluated as qualified/valid by the CTI, and shall indicate the name of the company’s psychologist tutor (this tutor must be included in the list of the company’s info sheet in the Database of the Regional Register of Psychologists). You will then receive an e-mail message with indications on how to accept the internship offer and complete your application: during this phase, you will have to indicate the teaching tutor designated for your Degree programme (consult the relevant list attached).
• General internship offer; companies/organizations can insert in our Online Internship Service general internship offers for TPV, which can be consulted in the homepage of the Online Internship Service, directly. After consulting the offers available, you can apply for one of them by indicating the name of the teaching tutor designated by your Degree programme (see the list attached). You will then receive an email message with indications on how to complete your application.

3. Your application will subsequently be evaluated and, upon its approval, you will receive an email message with indications on how to complete your TPV internship activation. The TPV internship cannot start before receiving the approval. If necessary, the start date may be postponed automatically.

4. Download the attendance register from the Online Internship Service: in this document, you will find the authorized period/duration of your TPV internship.

Interns are required to discuss with the host organization or company about the mandatory training on safety and security on the workplace. Unibo shall provides for a Safety and Security Course (module 1 and 2);

It is not permitted to carry out the TPV internships at organizations or companies which are property of or belonging to cohabitants, relatives or relatives of the intern, nor at host organizations/companies with which they have professional ties and at the workplace, or at host entity with which the intern has relationships of work, even self-employed.

The following procedure can be activated of credits recovery for TPV internships which have not been carried out during the (Bachelonly for the purposes or) first-cycle degree programme (learning activity: B5020 TPV 10 credits EXTRACURRICULAR – 10 credits).

After having identified the laboratory or structure at Unibo and having agreed with the relevant Unibo psychologist tutor or teacher the period and duration of the internship, as well as the details of your TPV project, you will have to submit your application via the Unibo Online Internship Service. To submit your application:

1. Make sure to have completed the mandatory modules of the safety and security course (module 1 and 2);

2. Click on the button “Presenta richiesta tirocinio in UNIBO” (“Submit your internship application in Unibo”) available in your Home page;

3. Fill in the required fields.

During this phase, you will have to:

• Insert a qualifying project in the CV field;
• Indicate the teaching tutor designated for your Degree programme (see the list attached);
• In the field “Soggetto ospitante” (“Host Entity”), select the Department of Psychology
• Indicate the email address for the “Tutor soggetto ospitante” (“Host entity tutor”), that is to say the Unibo teacher/psychologist tutor who is going to supervise your internship at the host lab or structure;

4. Wait via Email for a confirmation of the approval for your application and then download the attendance register where you can find the authorized period/duration of your internship (the period may have been modified with respect to the estimated period entered in your initial application).

It is not permitted to carry out the TPV internships at organizations or companies which are property of or belonging to cohabitants, relatives or relatives of the intern, nor at host organizations/companies with which they have professional ties and at the workplace, or at host entity with which the intern has relationships of work, even self-employed.

To carry out a TPV internship abroad, you have two different options:

• participating into a mobility programme (e.g.: Erasmus+ Mobility for Traineeship or other calls for application). The foreign host organization shall obtain the eligibility by filling out the document denominated “Declaration of Availability”. For further details on this procedure, please contact the Traineeship and International Relations Office. Please note: in case of participation in the Erasmus+ Mobility for Traineeship, there must be only one host organization. 
• Identifying a foreign host organization suitable and approved with the same procedure provided for the Italian host organizations, as described above.

Please note that all students who undertake a TPV internship abroad are required to complete the Distance Learning (FAD) module entitled "Deontology for the Psychological Profession in Italy - A Distance Learning Toolkit for Students of Psychology", in English, available on the Virtual platform (https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=56556#section-0). Once you have passed the module, obtaining a score of 6 out of 10 in the three tests of the module, you will receive a Passing Badge and a notification via email. It is suggested to save and keep the notification, transforming it into a pdf file, so that you can attach it to the documentation relating to the TPV undertaken abroad, when it is required. It is recommended to complete the FAD module "Deontology for the Psychological Profession in Italy - A Distance Learning Toolkit for Students of Psychology" well in advance of the deadline dates for meeting the requirements for enrollment in the Practical Evaluation Test (PPV) sessions, so as to allow for the correct procedures for registering in your career, or recognizing the TPV abroad.

During the internship, you will have to fill out the attendance register with the effective attendance hours, on a daily basis. The period of attendance shall match the authorized period/duration of your internship. In case of changes (e.g., suspension, cancellation, etc.) to the project or schedule of your internship, you will have to inform via Email the Traineeship Office, the relevant teaching tutor or supervisor (in CC) and the psychologist tutor at the host company or organization.

If you carry out internship travels, missions or activities outside the seat or structure indicated in the approved project, you should preventively send an email message to the teaching tutor and wait for his/her authorization via Email, in this way you will be guaranteed an insurance cover. Please always remember to enter in CC the psychologist tutor at the host company/organization and the Traineeship Office at Unibo.

Throughout the entire duration of your internship, you will be granted an insurance cover against accidents on the workplace and a civil liability insurance. For further information on the insurance cover, please consult the web page of the Insurance Service.

Once you have concluded the TPV internship at the host organization (for learning activities: B5020 TPV 10 credits EXTRACURRICULAR; B2807 TPV EXTERNAL 20 Credits; B2808 TPV EXTERNAL 14 Credits), within the Internship Service online you must:

• Indicate the exact end date of your internship;
• Upload the attendance register complete of signatures and stamp;
• Enter the final evaluation drafted and signed by the psychologist tutor at the host company/organization, together with a report on your internship experience (in a single PDF file);
• Fill out the online questionnaire.

The correctness of all these documents will be verified by Traineeship Office and by the reference teachers. After these evaluations:

- the learning activity B5020 TPV 10 credits EXTRACURRICULAR shall be recorded in your career as “Passed” by the TPV reference teacher for the relevant Degree programme.

- To record in your carreer the learning activities B2807 TPV EXTERNAL 20 Credits; B2808 TPV EXTERNAL 14 Credits, you must enroll to the relevant exam dates on Almaesami platform which are published by the TPV reference teacher of your Degree programme (please check in the file attached to this page who is the TPV reference teacher for your Degree programme.

PLEASE NOTE: for the (Master) second-cycle Degree programme in Psychology of Wellbeing and Social Inclusivity, the records of the learning activities in your career are directly entered by the TPV reference teacher without the need of enrolling to the exam dates on Almaesami.

Students enrolled in Master's Degree Programmes who have completed the TPV internship abroad within the Erasmus program must also complete and pass the Distance Learning (FAD) module entitled "Deontology for the Psychological Profession in Italy - A Distance Learning Toolkit for Students of Psychology", available on the "Virtuale" platform (https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=56556#section-0), and must send to the Internship and International Relations Office, together with the two documents mentioned above, also the notification of passing the FAD module, which has been received via email.