The curricular internship is a training experience, included in the study plan of the degree programme, aimed at completing academic education through practical experiences.
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 final semester of the GIOCA Master Program consists of a curricular internship activity based on a deep-contact experience within an artistic or cultural organization in public or private administration. It provides an opportunity for all students to enhance their academic knowledge with field experience, related to their career interest, in a variety of settings, coherently with the objectives of the GIOCA Master Program.
The Degree Programme includes one mandatory Internship starting from March (at the secon year) to be chosen between:
The aim of such mandatory internship has to be consistent with the dissertation topic and agreed with the supervisor, the internship activity should be based on a deep-contact experience within an artistic or cultural organization in public or private administration.
You can also add to your study plan an additional elective internship:
Important: You can carry out the your mandatory Internship and the internship to be chosen among the electives in two different organizations or in the same one, you will need to set up two procedures in both cases.
You can set up your mandatory Internship starting from March of the second year, after the end of the classes and after selecting it in your study plan (please read the information on how to modify the study plan).
You can set up your elective Internship starting from March of the second year, after the end of the classes and after selecting it in your study plan (please read the information on how to modify the study plan).
Students are required to dedicate 3-6 months (350 working hours) to the internship and upon its completion they are assigned 14 credits (ECTS) on the study plan.
It can be either part time or full time according to the hosting organization.
The University of Bologna has an internship database, called SOL-Internships. Companies and institutions that have an agreement with the University of Bologna may publish their internship offers there. You may, alternatively:
N.B. Students cannot carry out internships within a host organisation whose legal representative, director or business associate has family ties with the student applicant.
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. The number of hours indicated in the attendance sheet must be respected.
From 2022/2023 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.
In cases 1) and 2)
NB: You have to complete the Health and Safety Training Courses (Module 1 and Module 2) before starting your internship. You can find the links to the two Modules on the website of your course of study, on the "Health and Safety mandatory training" page of the "Studying" channel.
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 follow the passages below to activate an internship:
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:
Please, remember that:
You can carry out your internship outside of Italy following one of the two possibilities listed below:
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 in the related page.
At the end of the internship, you have to upload on SOL-Internships all the pages of the attendance sheet, which has to be filled in and signed.
Then, you will be directed to the online final evaluation form. Once the attendance sheet and the online final evaluation form is completed, the Internship office will validate the activity and your Academic Tutor (Prof. Paolo Ferri) will be able to register your internship.
!! It is necessary to book a "registration session" on AlmaEsami for the registration of the internship --> Registration dates are available under Prof. Paolo Ferri exams' dates on Almaesami!!
*** PLEASE, upload the attendance sheet and wait for its validation before booking the registration session on ALMA ESAMI.***
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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