The internship is an F-type training activity that is worth 10 ECTS Credits and corresponds to a workload of 250 hours at the host institution. You can do your internship normally during the second semester of your second year, provided that you have earned at least 60 credits and only if you have chosen a "professionalizing thesis", rather than a "research thesis". The internship allows you to carry out a professionalizing activity with a strong applicative content within public and private bodies operating in the field of territorial and urban planning and design. The activity carried out during your internship will be the starting point for the development of the subject matter that you will explore more in depth in your thesis, which requires a commitment of a further 10 credits. Your academic tutor of the internship will therefore also be your thesis supervisor. You can decide to do your internship at: a) an institution or studio of your choice (in Piedmont, in Italy or abroad); b) an institution or study among those proposed by the Internship Coordinator of the degree programme in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning. The procedures for choosing and assigning the internships and the bureaucratic steps that you must follow before, during and after the internship will be illustrated by the Internship Coordinator at the beginning of each academic year to the students who have included the internship in their Annual Personal Study Plan. These instructions are also available on the teaching portal - "Internship" tab. To be eligible for some internships, you must send the following documents in advance: a resume (European format), a motivational letter, and a cover letter from one or more Politecnico di Torino faculty members (in English if the internship is abroad). Successful completion of the internship requires you to work the number of hours stipulated in your training project. Upon completion, you will have to send your timesheet (completed online) for approval to the company tutor(s) through the portal. The end of internship report, approximately 3-4 pages, should contain: introduction, methodology, results (e.g., maps or data), conclusions/future developments, and bibliography. The report should be signed by your company tutor(s) and sent for approval to your academic tutor(s).

You can find the instructions on the platform that you need to use to upload your training project and to report the internship progress till its completion 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 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 training project. If your training project 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-credits threshold required for Master’s graduation). Internship Coordinator: Prof. Guglielmina MUTANI

Modalità di esame: Accertamento (esame senza voto);

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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.