STUDENT GUIDE
(2024 - 2025)
Bachelor's degree programme in
ARCHITECTURE (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: ARCHITECTURE
INTERNSHIP
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.

Before starting an internship, you need to include it in your Personal Study Plan/Annual Personal Study Plan in the academic year in which you would like to do your internship. Students wishing to carry out an internship must complete the training project from their personal page on the education portal, stage section.

Information on the online process to submit the training project and to track its progress until its conclusion, together with the general rules to undertake the internship, can be found at the following link > CURRICULAR INTERNSHIPS
University Regulations on curricular internships and practical evaluation internships can be found HERE
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Additional information:
  • Both face-to-face and remote internships are permitted; however,you cannot undertake the internship completely remotely unless expressly stated in the course guidelines. The study course may therefore specify the maximum percentage of remote activity allowed. Unless indicated, the internship may be carried out in mixed mode without further constraints.
  • Since the internship consists of a newly formulated activity, no internship activities already carried out or in progress will be recognised. However, you can always apply for recognition of professional skills as free credits by following the procedure indicated in the section Free choise credits - Other learning activities.
Check the guidelines to apply for a curricular internship
Prerequisites
You can do the internship at institutions, studios or companies from thethird year.
How to put it in the PSP/APSP and undertake the internship
CREDITS/HOURS WORKLOAD
12 credits/300 hours 
TYPE OF ACITIVITY 
elective
INCLUSION IN THE PLAN OF STUDY AND ANNUAL STUDY PLAN 
Autonomously by the deadline to define the career plan and teaching load. After the deadline, you're expected to contact the Career Unit via ticketing service.
TO START THE INTERNSHIP 
  • choose the host institution:
    - from among the proposals published in the internship section of the teaching portal;
    - from direct contact with a company/institution.
  • if you independently identify a host institution ensure that:
    - the company must have at least one engineer/architect regularly enrolled in the Order of Architects/Engineers since at least 3 years 
    (this requirement is not necessary for employees of public companies);
    - the company members must not have any family ties with the intern;
    - the company must not be related to a professorof a course in which you are enrolled and for which you have yet to sit the examination.
  • complete the training project from your personal page in the "Internships" section > "New Project";
  • the academic tutor is automatically assigned during compilation of the training project from among those who have the role of Internship Coordinators.
REPLACING THE ELECTIVE COURSE WITH THE INTERNSHIP
yes, it is one of the teaching activities provided for by the study course to acquire free credits 
*A maximum of 30% of the activity can be carried out remotely.
Completion and registration
For the conclusion and registration, refer to the information provided on the website in the page related to curricular Internships, in Italy or abroad, section "Developing and ending of the Internship".
The study course has defined the requirement for writing a brief report (maximum 2 pages) on the activity performed, to be uploaded in the system at the end of the internship. The report must also be signed by the company tutor.
Internship Coordinators: Prof. Gustavo Ambrosini, Prof. Maria Cristina Boido and Prof. Paolo Cornaglia 
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