Internships and placements
An integrated part of the four Business Labs (Multinational enterprises, Digital and Consulting companies, Luxury and fashion, Life Science and Technology) delivered in the second year of the MSc in Management is the Internship [in Italian: stage curriculare con cfu]: a real-life learning experience grounded in practice-based applications to real-world issues. The internship offers the experience of combining work and learning in a business lab partnering company, thus connecting the academic learning derived from courses to the experiential learning emerging in the daily routines in the workplace. Internship also solicits the awareness of ethical issues regarding daily professional practice and sustainability, and the improvement of self-efficacy as it represents a safe learning context for receiving feedback and engaging in the development of personal and professional trajectories.
At the end of the course, students will be able to achieve the following Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs):
- develop daily organizational activities aiming at contributing to viable solutions to business problems through a critical decision-making approach (CILO 1 – transferable skill);
- work effectively in organizational contexts where multi-cultural groups are diffused (CILO 2 – transferable skill);
- understand and be aware of ethical and responsibility issues related to professional practice and to global sustainability in daily work (CILO 3 - behaviour);
- increase self-efficacy in international multicultural contexts by assessing and reflecting on personal strengths and weaknesses, accepting feedback, and challenging personal ability to work in an autonomous and well-organized way (CILO 4 - behaviour).
The Internship means that the student is offered the chance to participate (on-site or on smart working) in business activities situated in a real workplace and professional experiences within one partnering company, which will assign specific tasks and resources to operate depending on the unit or department or team in which the student will be inserted. A manager supervises the intern’s activity that lasts for a time span of approximately 200-250 hours.
N. ECTS - 8
Enrollment requirements – Students must be enrolled to the specific business lab to which each Internship belongs.
Recruiting procedure - The students who accept to commit themselves in the Internship process will be selected directly from the companies that are partners in the Msc in Management. The partnering companies per each Business Lab will decide, depending on available positions and state/advancement of projects, whether the Internship will be feasible and how many students can be hosted, year per year. Each company will take responsibility for the selection process of students and for the definition of areas of activities.
Formative agreement - Once selected for an intern position, students will be requested to accept the companies’ proposal regarding contents of work and areas of activities, workplace location and time of activities. Agreements will be made between the company tutor and the student. (For further information, see documents and timetable in Blackboard)
Language of instructions - English. Nonetheless, Italian Language is suggested as the Internship takes place in local contexts and involves students in a situated culture.
Attendance – Requested attendance in the company: 100%
International dimension - Multicultural perspectives are solicited both in the organizational context and through the Journaling and the Mentoring Meetings.
Business connection - The learning experience is fully embedded in a real company context.
Professional context - The internship solicits the understanding of organizational and working routines, relationship management, code of ethics, which are fundamental for a managerial career path.
Further information - Additional information regarding the Internship schedule and delivery, learning assessment, expectations and policies, general announcements, and additional materials will be posted on Blackboard.
- Can you grant me access to an Internship before I submit my study plan (October ’26)?
No, we do grant you access to a Field Actvitity, which in most of the cases ends up being an Internship upon a partner company. Alternatively a Field Project or – as last instance – an Internship upon a non-partner company (only upon approval of the Business Lab Owner) may be activated or validated. - How does the selection process for Internships work?
It’s a free market logic. By December, the Business Lab Owner will share your CVs with the Partner Companies. Then, at their own discretion, the Partner Companies will contact students to set preliminary interviews and/or offer a position. In that sense we highly recommend you taking the meetings on CV and cover letter development quite seriously! - Can I contact a non-partner company proposing myself for an Internship?
The recruiting process privileges the internship with Partner companies. Should the student not find any internship position, he/she can contact other companies to create a new agreement. This is possibile only after February 20th, when the recruiting process with partner companies is completed. We highly recommend to compete for an internship upon the partner companies and – only as a residual option – consider other patterns. - Can I serve an Internship to a non partner company without the Business Lab Owner approval and/or in a different time window than term 6th?
Yes, but it won’t be accounted as a Curricular Internship. It would be accounted as Internship without credits. This because that experience has been either deemed as unconsistent with the Intended Learning Outcomes and out of the scope of the Mentoring Activity. It means that you should serve anyway a Curricular Internship, a Field Project or an Extra Exam. - Why?
Having a pool of Corporate Partners should not be seen as a constrain. On the opposite, it implies having a cohesive and dedicated team of people designing Field Activities entirely consistent with your academic pattern.