Curricular Internships and other activities of your choice

TRAINING AND INTERNSHIP

Training and internship are “activities still useful for entering the world of work, as well as educational activities designed to facilitate the range of work choices, by direct experience of the types of work to which the academic qualification may give access, including, in particular, in-work training and orientation” (D.M. 3.11.99 n. 509, art. 10 c1f)”.

The student is free to select public or private facility where he can carry out the internship/training, considering that 1CFU corresponds to 25 hours of activity.

In particular, the internship/training activities may consist of:

a. Participation in internship/training activities or in educational excursions organized by the professors of the Department. In this case, the student can book the activity according to the instructions communicated by the responsible for the activity.

b. Attendance of public or private facilities with which the Department has specific agreements (check the attached list). In this case, first, the student must contact the facility in order to check seat availability and then, he can collect and fill the appropriate form available at Academic Office (see below).

c. Attendance of any other public or private facility available to host students for internship/training activities. In this case, in addition to the procedure reported in the previous paragraph, the student must have the prior approval of the Degree Programme Board, by contacting the President (see below).

d. Attendance of laboratories of the Department or of laboratories of other Departments or Structures of the University of Tuscia. In this case, the head of the laboratory or of the facility will follow, directly or through a co-worker, student’s activities, releasing, at the end of the scheduled hours, a certificate of attendance and of the activities carried out.

PLEASE NOTE: The student, who chooses to carry out an internship/training period at university research labs, both internal and external to University of Tuscia, can achieve only 2 CFU than those required by the curriculum of his course of study. A student enrolled in a master’s degree programme has to acquire, necessarily, all the CFU of internship/training required at external facilities.

If, instead, it is a diagnostic research or analysis lab, the student will carry out there the whole period of the internship.

For the purpose of carrying out training activity, the Department will consider the following internal Centres of the University of Tuscia as external facilities:

• Azienda Agraria (Botanical Garden “Angelo Rambelli”)
• Centro Grandi Attrezzature
• Educational and Environmental Dissemination Centre of Tarquinia salterns.

The Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences took action to promote internship/training agreements with public and private entities present on the territory at provincial, regional and national level.

They are selected according to the compliance of the activity carried out concerning the degree programmes and the aims of the courses.

In particular, the Department tried to involve facilities and institutions which could provide students a professional background and which could be a possible job opportunity.

The list of all active agreements, regularly updated, is available on the Department website. The students can go to the Academic Office of the Department to obtain any additional information and to collect the forms required to activate training/internship at the facility selected (you can also download the forms from the Department’s website). The form, to be filled for each training/internship, includes information of period, activities to do, obligations and duties of the trainee and of the host institution. The figures of Company Tutor and Academic Tutor are required.

We remind you that, to start training/internship, it is required the signature of the Head of Department (that it must be applied at the end of the training project: Promoter) who allow the execution of training/internship. Then, you can submit the training project, with all the authorizing signatures required, at Academic Office. The training/internship carried out without the signature of the Head of Department will be considered invalid.

The curricular training/internship must be carried out during the year where it is required by the educational offer of the course. In order to submit the application, you must be regularly enrolled in the year of study where the training/internship is scheduled. In addition, in order to start the training/internship you must have previously included it in the individual study plan.

Host institution, at the end of the training/internship, issue to the student a certificate attesting not only activities carried out and skills acquired but also ability to work in team and knowledge acquired. This certificate must be submitted to Academic Office who send it to the Degree Programme Board, which validated the training/internship.

We remind you that the Educational Committee of the Degree Programme Board, which validated the training/internship, meets, generally, once a month (the first week of each month); consequently, if you have urgency to validate training/internship, for example close to degree exam, you must submit the certificate not later than the 25th of each month (in the case of need for validation for graduation exam, not later than the 25th of the month before the date of degree session).

At the end of the training/internship, both the student and Host institution must fill in an EVALUATION FORM available at Academic Office and online, on the Department’s website.

Not every training/internship carried out include an agreement from University of Tuscia and host institution. After all, students can carry out training/internship at non-agreements facilities, too, after obtaining the proper authorization of the Degree Programme Board. This request form must be submitted at Academic Office together with any documentation attesting the consistency between the activities promoted by Host institution and the educational aims of the degree course to which the requesting student belong.

In the latter case, the institution doesn’t have to fill out the evaluation form, but it is enough that the student requires a certification, on headed paper, showing the hours carried out.

As required by current legislation, free training courses on job security have been activated. Students who must carry out a curricular internship, both at department labs and public or private facilities, must follow these courses.

Courses are already active and available online, in asynchronous mode, at Moodle platform (For more info check the guide below)

Training/internship CFU acknowledgement

Online required courses to carry out curricular internship