The curricular internship is a training activity that can be evaluated as 10 Credits, corresponding to 250 hours of work in the hosting company. The internship is recommended to be done during the last semester of the training course, as a completion of the academic experiences, so as the student can choose directions and contents of the experience related to the profession with more awareness. Internships in foreign hosting bodies are promoted to develop knowledge of the professional world on the international scene and to eventually improve language skills. In the same way, the proposals for carrying out the internship in academic, national and international locations, in the contexts of research laboratories and in relation to the competences acquired in the technology transfer scenario are allowed and promoted. The internship can be carried out at institutions, firms or companies already has a valid agreement with the “Politecnico di Torino” or that can be accredited on the proposal of the student: https://www.polito.it/en/innovation/relationships-with-businesses/internships-and-thesis

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://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internships-in-italy https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internship-abroad The academic tutor is assigned automatically following the completion of the training project. It is allowed to activate the internship in a blended mode (presence and remote work), however it is not possible to carry out the activity completely remotely. At the end of the activity, the student will have to draw up a short report in which he will exhaustively summarize the activities carried out during the internship. The report must be signed by the company tutor and uploaded in the portal in pdf format. The academic tutor will register the internship. Extending the duration of your internship: 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). Referents: Prof. Antonia Teresa SPANO' and Prof. Guido CALLEGARI

Modalità di esame: Elaborato scritto individuale;

Exam: Individual essay;

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Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilità o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unità Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione più idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.