The internship can only take place in Companies or public/private Bodies external to the structures of the Polytechnic or other Universities. Therefore, the internship is not allowed at the Politecnico or other Universities. The internship can be carried out in Italy or abroad. The internship can only be activated once 54 credits have been obtained and can be carried out at any time of the academic year. The insertion into the study plan can take place at any time of the year by following the procedure described in the following section (see Notes). If the student carries out a master's thesis at the same company where he/she did the internship, it is required that the two jobs, even if coordinated, are clearly recognizable, each of an entity congruent with the respective different number of credits.

The internship can be included in the career plan and in the teaching load only by the contact person of the course To request the placement of the internship in the teaching load, the student must have already achieved the minimum required credits (54 CFU) and must: • Find an internship by contacting Companies or public/private Bodies (Politecnico and other Universities are excluded). • Identify an academic tutor among the professors of the Politecnico. • Request the Company/Institution to send an e-mail to the Internship Referent (paolo.maggiore@polito.it), with the student and the Study Program Coordinator (dario.pastrone@polito.it), specifying the availability to host the internship and the period foreseen for the development • Forward the email sent by the company to the Study Program Coordinator (dario.pastrone@polito.it), indicating the code and title of any chosen course (6 CFU) which is being replaced (PLEASE NOTE: in this educational offer, only one 6 CFU free choice course can be replaced with an internship or with activities in student teams. It is also possible to insert excess credits up to a maximum of 132 overall CFU, thesis included). Once the internship teaching has been included in the study plan, the student can proceed with its activation by filling in the Training Project. Information relating to the IT procedure that allows the presentation of the Training Project and records its progress until its conclusion, can be found at the link https://didattica.polito.it/pdf/Procedura_Lato_Studente.pdf The procedure is the same for all Politecnico students. In the case of Aerospace Engineering students it is expected that at the end of the internship, at the request of the academic tutor, the student will upload a short report (maximum 10 pages) on the activity carried out on the IT procedure site. The final validation of the internship and its registration in the student's career is performed by the academic tutor. Meeting events with companies, to get to know the companies and to evaluate offers of traineeships, are scheduled in the TIME FOR JOB events. Information relating to the possibility of participation in these events can be found at the Career Service link (https://careerservice.polito.it). In addition, some internship offers are available on the personal page of the Teaching Portal. The student can also directly propose a company that does not appear in the list of offers and in which he would like to carry out the training internship. In any case, the Internship Agreement must exist, or one must be stipulated through the Career Service Office. 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.