STUDENT GUIDE
(2024 - 2025)
Master's degree programme in
DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
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.
  • The compatibility of the internship activity with the thesis activity must be assessed by the scientific supervisor with whom the student defines how to implement the internship activity for the purposes of the final paper. Any further indications are referred to in the guidelines.
Check the guidelines to apply for a curricular internship
Prerequisites
You can apply for a curricular internship upon reaching at least 48 credits, anytime during the academic 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 
You can insert the internship on your own by the deadline to define the plan of study and annual study plan. After the deadline, you're expected to contact the Career Unit via ticketing service, requesting the inclusion of the internship and conveying  the names of the elective courses you intend to replace.
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.
  • identify the person who will act as academic tutor from among the teaching staff belonging to the College of your study cpourse;
  • check the availability of the academic tutor and the company tutor, who must confirm your request;
  • before inserting your training project, write to the Internship Coordinator, sending the following information: the name of the host institution and the tutor, the name of the course and the academic tutor, estimated duration of the internship and description of the internship activity (4 lines);
  • after confirmation by the Internship Coordinator, create the training project in the section internship > new training project;
  • you will be able to start the internship once your training project has been approved in the internship section (approval may take a few working days).
REPLACING THE ELECTIVE COURSE WITH THE INTERNSHIP
yes, you can replace the 12 credits elective course 
Internship's time extension
There is the possibility (only during the initial phase of the training project, not during its execution) to increase the number of hours of the internship by selecting one of the options visible in the “EXPECTED HOURS” section within the training project. In any case, it is not possible to exceed 900 hours (the maximum number of hours may vary depending on the degree programme). This request must be agreed upon in advance with the company/professional studio/organisation and must be confirmed by the individual acting as the academic tutor, who has the right to refuse a proposed training project. In the event of a refusal, a new internship proposal must be agreed upon, and a new training project must be completed. The credits related to the extension will be recorded as additional credits beyond the 120 required for the Master’s degree programme. However, all hours, including the extension, must be completed in order for the internship to be officially recorded in the academic record.
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 confirmed that the end-of-activity report must be presented and upload on the section stage of the personal account.
Internship Coordinator:  Prof. Daniele APILETTI (daniele.apiletti@polito.it)
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