Internship

An internship allows you to carry out activities in organizations or companies, in order to add a complementary practical experience to your University education.

Internships are carried out on the basis of an agreement between the University of Bologna and the Host Structure (company, public body, professional firm etc.) and an internship programme signed by the parties concerned.

• Curricular internship of 6 CFU (150 hours);
•  Internship for Preparation for the Final Examination of 6 CFU (150 hours) or 12 CFU (300 hours), in Italy or abroad. 

AMaC academic tutors for internships are the following professors:  Roberto Pinto, Irene Graziani or Anna Rosellini (choose one of them).

For both internship typologies, you can submit your internship request: 

• starting from your second year, after having selected the internship in your study plan;

• in your 1st year you have the possibility to choose in your study plan the option "Anticipation of the internship foreseen in the 2nd year", in order to carry out the compulsory internship already after the end of the 1st year lesson period (in summer – indicatively from June – or in September).

The request for the Internship for Preparation for the Final Examination can be submitted exclusively from your second year, after having selected the internship in your study plan.

 You are required to first have already defined the main subject of your final examination with your supervisor who will follow your activities during the internship. You also have to ask your supervisor to write an email in which he/she approves your internship activities, you'll have to upload it together with your curriculum vitae during the online application procedure.

To learn more about the open windows of your study plan, see also: Preparing the study plan.

First, prepare an effective CV and a cover letter. You can follow University guidance services about how to write effective CVs and targeted cover letters as well as job interview simulations in Job Placement.

Please, note that:

- Internships cannot be carried out at a Hosting institution where the legal representative, the cooperation partner or the responsible manager in charge has family ties or affinity within the 2nd degree with the interested student.

- Curricular internships (also internships in preparation of the final examination) must be carried out in presence. The internship committees may authorize, after evaluation of the internship project, to carry out the internship at distance or in a blended modality.

Hosting institutions having already signed an internship agreement with the University of Bologna publish their internship vacancies on the Online Internship Database. You can check on the internet platform SOL-Internships 

• the available internship offers, and apply for them.  

or 

• the list of all hosting institutions having already signed an internship agreement with the University of Bologna. You can contact those you are interested in and verify their availability to host you as an intern. In case they are available to host you, send your application.

In both cases, once the hosting institution has accepted your application, connect to SOL-Internships: 

1. follow the guidelines you will receive at your Unibo email;
2. download the attendance register from SOL-Internships where you will find the allowed period of your internship.

Attention: Compulsory online courses on health and safety must be completed (modules 1 and 2) before the internship. The verification of certifications is competence of the hosting institution;

1. Check if your hosting institution has already signed an internship agreement with the University of Bologna. If not, the hosting institution must first start the procedure to sign an internship agreemet with the University of Bologna by registering at Internships and agreements service;
2. Ask the Tutor in your hosting institution, who will support you during the internship, to publish an Internship Offer dedicated specifically to you (“ad personam”) on Internships and agreements service;
3. Follow the guidelines you will receive at your Unibo email;
4. Download the attendance register from SOL-Internships where here you will find the allowed period of your internship.

Attention: Compulsory online courses on health and safety must be completed (modules 1 and 2) before the internship. The verification of certifications is competence of the hosting institution;

In order to carry out an internship in a structure of the University of Bologna, please follow these steps:

1. Agree the objectives and activities of the internship with your academic tutor and with the contact person of the hosting structure (if different from the academic tutor);

2. Carry out the compulsory online courses on health and safety (modules 1 and 2);

3. Connect to SOL-Internships and select "Tirocinio in una struttura di Ateneo";

4. Complete the information by selecting the specific University structure you are interested in (see Internships in University structures).

5. Follow the guidelines you will receive at your Unibo email;

6. Download the attendance register from SOL-Internships where here you will find the allowed period of your internship.

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 the validity, please send the confirmation mail received by sicurezza.formazione@unibo.it and your safety certification to the Internship Office.

The safety certification - module 2 - must necessarily be obtained by the University of Bologna.

Safety certifications - module 2 - obtained outside the University of Bologna are not accepted.

You can start your internship only after all the involved partners have signed your internship programme and only after you have downloaded the attendance register.

You can carry out an internship abroad: 

• By applying for an exchange programme (for example, Erasmus + for Traineeship) 

or

• By selecting a hosting institution abroad, following the same procedures as for Italian hosting institutions

If you have already carried out extra-university activities (for example working activities) and you wish to get recognized them as an internship, please read the information about “recognition of extra-university activities” available at the area “Studying” of your degree programme website.

Fill in the attendance register respecting the allowed period. In case of changes (for example: interruption or cancellation of the agreed internship programme), you must inform your internship office by mail and in cc your academic tutor and your tutor at the hosting institution.

Possible business trips must be previously communicated by the tutor of the hosting institution to the internship office and to the academic tutor who must allow them.

During the internship, the University of Bologna guarantees insurance cover against accidents at work and third-party liability claims. Please, for more info visit this link “Insurance for students”.

After having completed your internship, connect to SOL-Internships and:

• insert the end date of your internship;
• upload your Attendance Register (the first two pages must be duly completed and signed by the Hosting Institution).

If you have carried out an internship for preparation for the final examination, please enclose, together with the Attendance Register, in the same file, an email of declaration by your Supervisor regarding the outcome of your internship.

Fill in the online questionnaire about your intership experience. Your answers, which we ask you to give us carefully, will help us to monitor your internships’ progress and, if necessary, will allow us to act in order to improve them. Thank you.

The Host Structure will also receive a notification by e-mail to fill in an evaluation questionnaire.

The internship will be verbalized online by your academic tutor.