What is an internship?
Internships provide students with valuable hands-on experience in a public or private organization, allowing them to explore potential career paths and apply their academic skills and knowledge in a real-world setting.
Internship activities are supervised by both an academic tutor and a mentor from the hosting institution, and follow a structured program.
An Internship held in an international context, on site, and in English is mandatory for GLEB students. For batches until 2021-22, it must last at least 250 hours and it will count for 10 credits. For batches from 2022-23 on, it must last at least 300 hours and it will count for 12 credits.
The internship must be held on site at the company or institution: on-line activities or smart working are not admitted.
Please, visit the Information and Advisory Office for the options to get internship credits.
Rules for earning credits
In order to register the credits, once the internship experience has been concluded:
1) Students must:
- write an internship report, according to the Guidelines, and submit it (in Word format) to the Information and Advisory Office and to the program coordinator (valentino.parisi@unicas.it);
- apply for credits validation through GOMP, following these instructions.
2) The Program Board must:
- approve the student internship report.
Please note that the process for evaluating and approving the report may take some time, so it is necessary to send it no longer than two weeks before any deadline.
Internship report
Students who complete their internship within the master program have to write a standard report (between 6000 and 8000 words). Students with a previous work experience, coherent with the program objectives, can ask for their activities to be recognized as internships: in this case they have to write an extensive report (between 12000 and 15000 words.Read carefully the Guidelines for the internship report here.
Internship Grants
Internships in other EU or EU-Partner countries can be funded through the EU Erasmus+ program. Calls are published by Unicas once (in Spring) or twice (in Spring and Autumn) a year, depending on the funds available (Click here).
Students are strongly encouraged to submit their application. Be aware that (a) there is no guarantee that funds are available for all the students who apply; (b) preferred applications come from students with a good transcript of records (both in terms of number of credits earned and average GPA achieved) and who present a high quality internship project (where also the hosting organization matters).
How to apply to Erasmus + for traneeship (scroll down the page).