Internships are offered to students as the first real chance to gain experience in the world of work. An internship gives you the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned during your studies and it will help you decide about your future professional career. Politecnico di Torino promotes internships and guarantees insurance coverage both for civil liability and occupational injuries.

You can do a curricular internship only as an integral part of the final examination. For this reason, you need to request the subdivision of the thesis credits (30 CFU) into 18 CFU Thesis and 12 CFU Internship. Please note that the Thesis and the Internship must focus on the same topic. However, it is recommended to keep the 30 CFU thesis and only include the internship when a thesis agreement with the company/institution can't be found.

To add the internship to your Annual Personal Study Plan, you need to send an e-mail to segreteria.collegioetf@polito.it asking to split the Thesis credits into Thesis and Internship, sending the following information:-

• NAME OF THE HOST  COMPANY AND OF THE COMPANY TUTOR;
• NAME OF THE DEGREE PROGRAMME AND OF THE ACADEMIC TUTOR;
• INTERNSHIP DURATION;
• INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION (4 LINES).

Your request will be forwarded and evaluated by the Internship Coordinator of your degree programme. Please note that the Coordinator will approve only internships that can be considered as true training experiences with a specific planning to be analysed more in depth in the thesis project.
After the approval, the  Secretariat will send a communication to the Students Office. At this point you will visualize two modules in your APSP: 12 CFU Internship and 18 CFU Thesis.
You need to wait for the approval before you can start your internship and fill out your Training project.

Additional information 
You can find the instructions about the platform that you need to use to upload your internship project and to report the internship progress till its completion at:
https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internships-in-italy
https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internship-abroad

An end-of- internship report is not required.

Extending the duration of your internship: internships have a given duration (hours) and provide a certain number of credits as specified in the Annual Personal Study Plan. You can extend the duration of your internship (number of hours) by selecting one of the options available in the field “Expected no. of hours”. You can only do this operation before the beginning of your internship and not while you are doing it. In any case, you cannot do more than 900 hours (maximum amount of hours may vary for each study course). Any request to extend the duration of an internship must be decided together with the Host Company. It MUST also be approved by a Polito faculty member (your Academic Tutor or the Internship Coordinator for your degree program) who may reject your proposal. In this case, you need to make a new proposal and fill out a new Progetto Formativo. If your Progetto Formativo is approved, it means that the extension of your internship and the extra hours have been accepted too. At the end of an internship with extended duration, you will see that the internship is recorded in your transcript as follows: INTERNSHIP with standard hours/credits in accordance with the rules of  your degree program (i.e. 6 credits/150 hours) plus the annotation “curricular internship extension” with your extra hours/credits. These credits will be recorded in your transcript as credit overload (they do not count towards the 120-credits threshold required for Master’s graduation).    

Internship Coordinators: 

Prof. Maurizio MARTINA (Ingegneria Elettronica/Electronic Engineering)
Prof. Carlo RICCIARDI (Nanotechnologies For ICTs)
Prof. Luca DALL'ASTA e Prof. Rita IOTTI (Physics Of Complex Systems)
Prof. Roberto GARELLO (Communications Engineering)

Prof. Guido ALBERTENGO (ICT For Smart Societies)