What is an internship?
Internships represent a unique opportunity for students, for both professional and personal growth, enriching their educational experience and CV. University recognizes the importance of internships and they may be included in academic programs as activities that entitle students to academic credits. However, internships are a non-compulsory educational activity for students enrolled in the Business and Finance degree program.
It is necessary to register for the internship register by filling in and sending to the faculty tutor the form available in the Documents section. This membership lasts for one year and can be renewed.
- To obtain the ECTS, it is necessary to enroll in the register before the internship begins. In the event that registration in the register is not possible, it will not be possible to activate an internship in the form of a Curricular Internship with CFU, but as a Curricular with zero CFU
- Internships are a non-compulsory teaching method. Therefore, the Faculty does not guarantee a number of internships equal to the number of internships requested annually by students.
- Once you have found the internship, you must receive approval from the faculty tutor, contacting him by email before it starts.
- The internship activity corresponds to 10 credits for the degree in Business and Finance. These credits can only be identified in the free-choice training credits (electives).
- In order for the recognition of credits, the internship must meet the following requirements: (1) the duration must be at least 3 months; (2) the internship tutor must be informed about all the details of the internship before it starts; (3) the internship must be completed, respecting the duration set by the training project, unless the interruption is due to the student's graduation; (4) at the end of the internship, the student must prepare a final report.
- If the proposed internship is carried out abroad, the enrolled student may request approval even if the duration is less than three months. The referring professor verifies their eligibility by ascertaining that: the internship lasts no less than four weeks; the internship is carried out with a company of consolidated reputation; the host company has adopted a public selection process, allowing access to anyone on a competitive basis; the host company is active in the banking, finance and insurance sector or is listed on regulated markets.
- Once the internship period is over, the delivery of the Final Internship Report is required, completed in accordance with the procedures indicated in the Blackboard Course Documents section. The delivery must take place at least five weeks before the start date of the graduation session, by email to the internship tutor. In the text of the email, you must specify the exams of your choice that you wish to replace with the internship.
- Registration in the Register of Internships
- When you want to request approval of the internship from the faculty tutor by email, you are asked to provide all the details of the internship (duration, location, company, how you found the internship, etc.) and specify the degree course and year in which you are enrolled.
- The hosting company will have to upload the training project on the step.unicatt.it portal and all parties will have to accept it (download the complete procedure for activating the curricular internship with credits here).
Once the internship period is over, the delivery of the Final Internship Report is required, completed in accordance with the procedures indicated in the Blackboard Course Documents section. The delivery must take place at least five weeks before the start date of the graduation session, by email to the internship tutor. In the text of the email, you must specify the exams of your choice that you wish to replace with the internship.
Subsequently, the secretariat will replace the exams specified by the student with the internship. The student must register for the exam session of the internship (not of the substitute exam) in order to be able to record the CFU. This exam session will be scheduled at least two weeks before the graduation session. Please note that registration for the exam session is therefore a necessary condition for the recording of the credits of the internship.
Please note that the internship has no grade and is recorded as "Approved".
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