• Minimum number of ECTS credits: 48; • The internship cannot be carried out at Universities or Research Centers; • For professional training abroad: the applicant cannot have the citizenship or being native of the country where the internship period is carried out, except for double citizenships. Exceptions to this rule are represented by cases in which the host company has institutional relations with the Politecnico di Torino in the context of existing and valid framework agreements or research contracts or in case the mobility for the internship period is establish by double-degrees programs. • The internship must be included in the academic plan of study at the beginning of the academic year. It can be replaced (at the end of the semester) with a course of your choice (but you cannot do the opposite)

Instructions on the platform in which students can upload their internship project and track/report internship progress until completion, can be found at: https://didattica.polito.it/pdf/Procedura_Lato_Studente.pdf During the year, meetings with companies/institutions are planned to get to know companies and evaluate internship offers (TIME FOR JOB). More details can be found at: https://careerservice.polito.it/ Finally, it is highly recommendable to check carefully internship offers available and reported in the personal page of the teaching portal. *Extending the duration of your internship (valid for Master’s degree programmes only) 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 programme) 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 programme (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-credit threshold required for Master’s graduation)

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In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.