The internship gives to the students the opportunity to experience professional development under an actual working environment. It enables the students to gain first-hand exposure of working in the real world. Through an internship, the students have the opportunity to apply the skills, knowledge and theoretical practice they learnt in university to challenging projects developed by the company. The internship allows to build connections with company professionals and to acquire new skills and abilities which can improve the student as a young professional, and furthermore enhance their resume.

The curricular internship can be taken as part of the final exam. A change from 30 credits of thesis into 18 credits of thesis plus 12 credits of internship on the thesis’ topic is required (sometimes internships may also be further extended). Students willing to do an internship, before preparing the internship project, must contact the ICT4SS faculty responsible for Internship for starting the formal procedure and topic approval Referent prof. Roberto Garello roberto.garello@polito.it

Instructions on the platform through which students can insert their internship project and track/report the internship progress till its completion, can be found at: https://didattica.polito.it/pdf/Procedura_Lato_Studente.pdf 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 550 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)

Modalità di esame: Accertamento (esame senza voto);

Modalità di esame: Accertamento (esame senza voto);