OVERVIEW

The internship, or traineeship, is a period of orientation and training, carried out in a working context, public or private, to facilitate entry into the world of work.
Participation in internship activities allows the student to apply the knowledge and skills being acquired in the training course in a work environment.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Internships are planned to allow students to assess their preparation ahead of their job placement in the workforce. The type of activities includes both insights for professional purposes and qualified internship experiences, through which it will be possible to refine editorial, communication and cultural skills.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The curricular internship enables the student to complete and integrate the university path:

• It serves a formative purpose in that it allows for the deepening, verification, and expansion of knowledge gained during the course of study.
• It serves an orientation purpose by allowing students to enter the world of work, learn about companies' reality and internal organizational / working dynamics, and assume greater awareness in professional choices.

PREREQUISITES

Before being able to carry out the internship, students must obtain the certificate of the online course on safety and health at work.

The course:

• takes place completely in e-learning mode
• it is divided into 4 modules
• has a total duration of 4 hours

To complete the course, it is necessary to have viewed all the video lessons, passed the related self-assessment tests and the final test. At the end of the course, students receive a digital certificate and will be able to download the certificate in pdf format.

To access the online course, students must connect to corsosicurezza.aulaweb.unige.it and authenticate with the UniGePASS credentials. The enrollment key is "student".

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

To activate the internship:

1. Contact the administrative contact of the internship office (Alessandra Mellano - 010 209 51504 - lettere.tirocini@unige.it
2. Come to an agreement with the contact person within the company (company tutor) and with the university tutor (professor of the student's course)
3. Invite the Company to register on the Student Curricular Activities Portal: Internships and Theses. Then start the necessary paperwork for the internship. N.B. The User Manuals are available on the home page of the Portal.

It will be the job of the company tutor to introduce you to the working environment and facilitate your acclimatization, as well as to evaluate your path and the achievement of the training objectives at the end of the experience.

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

At the end of the internship period, and in any case at least three months before the session scheduled for the final exam, the student must send the following documentation via email to the Internship Office:

• time sheet filled in and signed by the student and the company tutor
• Internship completion certificate (A/f form) complete with signature of the company tutor
• Internship end report (R/f form), complete with signature of the tutor teacher

FURTHER INFORMATION

To find out more, contact the Traineeship Office:

​dott.ssa Alessandra Mellano
010 20951504
lettere.tirocini@unige.it
Via Balbi, 4 – ground floor – 16126 Genova
receives by appointment