The internship experience is only allowed upon reaching 48 ECTS. If the proposals received by the companies are positively evaluated, they will be made visible to students from the teaching portal through the Career Service Office. After having submitted the application for the internship + thesis and passed the selection with the company, it will be necessary to send an email to the referents of your course of study to obtain the interval for starting the activity. The actual student-company matching must in fact be agreed with the Internship Commission. The tutor of the internship + thesis may be proposed by the student or indicated by the Internship Commission. Students will only have to modify their didactic load at the Student Secretariat and insert this activity in the course of study, only after confirmation of the study placements by e-mail. The internship contact will send a communication to the Didactic Secretariat, with theCareer Service Office, so that this change can be correctly inserted. Students who have applied for an internship + thesis proposal, but who have not received approval of the application, will in no way be able to start the internship and make requests to change the teaching load. The Commission will also evaluate the internship proposals received by students which will be validated only if the internship experience will be formative and with specific planning that can be deepened within the 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://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 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.