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Curricular Internships and Other Choice Activities

Information for Internships (Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees)

One of the goals of the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences is to establish a connection between the study period and the world of work. During the internship, students apply the knowledge acquired in university courses within the work context and acquire new skills related to professional activities. It is an important experience for personal and professional growth, as it represents a first contact with the world of work and a fundamental piece for building a curriculum.

The internship involves a training period at companies, professional studios, firms, laboratories, or institutions and public bodies external to the University; it must be carried out during the course of study and must not exceed 12 months in duration. Additionally, students have the option to undertake the internship at the hosting University in the case of international mobility, as well as an additional internship within 12 months after obtaining the degree. Each student is supervised by a professional tutor within the hosting organization and by a training tutor identified among the professors of the Department, who acts as a guarantor of the respect for the agreed training project. The internship request must be formalized according to the provisions provided by the department’s secretariat listed below.

  • Internship Regulations

    (Approved by the Department Council on April 14, 2021)
    1. The internship is carried out at companies affiliated with the University and with the DAFNE Department. The list of companies is available on the DAFNE website;
    2. Where there are conditions preventing the internship from being carried out at the companies listed in point 1, the internship can also be conducted in the laboratories of the University, including in this definition the Agricultural Company-Botanical Garden and other University facilities;
    3. Students, in order to access the curricular internship and laboratory activities, are required (under Legislative Decree 81/2008) to attend a training course on Occupational Health and Safety, passing the final exam. The course, including intermediate and final tests, is available online.
    4. The internship cannot be carried out in companies owned by the student, the spouse, siblings, or where the legal representative/internal tutor has a relationship of kinship with the intern up to the 2nd degree; The internship begins when the internal Tutor (DAFNE) and the external Tutor of the company (or other) where the student will carry out the internship are officially designated. The “company” tutor must also be provided for in the case of internships carried out at University facilities;
    5. The duration of the internship depends on the number of credits listed in the student’s study plan (1 credit corresponds to 25 hours);
    6. When the internship credits exceed 5 credits, the internship includes an intermediate and a final assessment. The intermediate assessment consists of a brief written report on the activities carried out, validated by both the internal and the company tutors. The final written report must be submitted to the Tutor before the validation of the student’s attendance record at the hosting structure;
    7. The internship must be completed at least 15 days before the graduation session.

  • Internship procedure

    The student has two options:

    A) They can choose to carry out the internship at a company among those already affiliated with the DAFNE Department, or,

    B) They can propose a new company to be affiliated.

    A) Companies affiliated with DAFNE (it is also possible to choose companies affiliated with other departments). To verify which companies are affiliated with other departments, click here: DIBAF or DEB.

    List of all companies affiliated with DAFNE Affiliated companies for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences L-25

    Once the company is identified:

    1. The student must contact the company directly or through the reference teacher.
    2. The student must complete, sign, and send the Training and Orientation Project.
    3. Send the documents from point 2 to the Didactic Secretariat (dafne@unitus.it), which will deliver, via email, to the student the Internship Diary and the Questionnaire for the company.

    At the end of the internship, the student must send the following scanned documents via email (dafne@unitus.it) in pdf individually. Photographs or single sheets are not accepted. Please kindly save the documents with your name and surname (for example: Internship Diary – Mario Rossi; Internship Report – Mario Rossi; Evaluation Questionnaire – Mario Rossi). The completed Internship Diary, signed, and stamped by the company. A written report outlining critical considerations and deductions on the activities carried out, also in reference to the knowledge acquired during the studies, approved and signed by the teacher tutor. The completed Questionnaire, signed, and stamped by the company. The total number of hours to be spent at the host institution is defined by the educational system of the student’s course of study, taking into account the ratio of 1 ECTS = 25 hours of student activity. The dedicated Internship Diary, to be completed with the daily activity log, must be approved by the teacher tutor and, as certification of attendance, signed by the company tutor. Regarding the documents that must be signed by the teacher tutor, they must be sent to the teacher for approval via email. Physical signature on the document is not required.

    B) If the company is not listed among those affiliated with DAFNE, the affiliation process is as follows:

    1. Download and complete the following documents necessary for activating the curricular internship:

    Form for requesting affiliation with a company Framework agreement between the company and DAFNE

    • Send the completed and signed documents to the Didactic Secretariat of DAFNE (dafne@unitus.it).
    • Once the affiliation is approved, the student must submit the completed and signed Training and Orientation Project to the Didactic Secretariat before starting the internship: training and orientation project
    • Send the documents from point 3 to the Didactic Secretariat (dafne@unitus.it), which will deliver, via email, to the student the Internship Diary and the Questionnaire for the company.

     

    At the end of the internship, the student must send the following scanned documents via email (dafne@unitus.it) individually in pdf.

    Photographs or single sheets are not accepted. Please kindly save the documents with your name and surname (for example: Internship Diary – Mario Rossi; Internship Report – Mario Rossi; Evaluation Questionnaire – Mario Rossi).

    • The completed Internship Diary, signed, and stamped by the company.
    • A written report outlining critical considerations and deductions on the activities carried out, also in reference to the knowledge acquired during the studies, approved and signed by the teacher tutor.
    • The completed Questionnaire, signed, and stamped by the company.

    The total number of hours to be spent at the host institution is defined by the educational system of the student’s course of study, taking into account the ratio of 1 ECTS = 25 hours of student activity. The dedicated Internship Diary, to be completed with the daily activity log, must be approved by the teacher tutor and, as certification of attendance, signed by the company tutor. Regarding the documents that must be signed by the teacher tutor, they must be sent to the teacher for approval via email. Physical signature on the document is not required.

    NOTE (Ministerial Decree no. 142 of March 25, 1998):

    Employers can host interns in relation to the company’s activity, within the following limits:

    companies with no more than five permanent employees, one intern;

    with a number of permanent employees between six and nineteen, no more than two interns simultaneously;

    with more than twenty permanent employees, interns in an amount not exceeding ten percent of said employees simultaneously.

  • Practical-Evaluative Internship for Professionalizing Degrees (L-P02)

    Internship Regulations

    During the 3rd year, a curricular internship is scheduled at Companies and/or Institutions with which agreements are in place. The commitment for the internship is equivalent to 50 university educational credits (ECTS) corresponding to 1000 hours.

    General Information

    The internship is carried out exclusively at companies affiliated with the University. The internship cannot be carried out in companies owned by the student, the spouse, siblings, or where the legal representative/internal tutor has kinship relations with the trainee up to the 2nd degree. The internship begins when the internal Tutor (DAFNE) and the external Tutor of the company (or other entity) where the student will carry out the internship are officially designated.

    Procedure to Carry Out the Internship

    The student has two possible alternatives:

    A) They can choose to carry out the internship in a company among those already affiliated with the University; B) Propose a new company or entity with which it is possible to establish a specific agreement.

    LIST OF AFFILIATED COMPANIES OR ENTITIES (updated November 2023)

    Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Zootechnical Systems

  • Elective Training Activity (AFS)

    Regulation

    Elective Training Activities (AFS) for Degree Courses (DM 270/2004) must be consistent with the educational project. These AFS are distinguished for the first and second level (Bachelor’s and Master’s degree respectively). Exceptionally, a student may indicate courses of a different level than their own: in this case, the choice must be approved by resolution of the CdD with specific justifications, upon proposal by the CCdS. However, it is not possible to include among the AFS teachings that substantially repeat didactic activities in their respective programs or plans. For past cases, any non-compliant situation is remedied if there is no adequate resolution by the CdD.

    For Degree Courses (DM 509/1999), reference will generally be made to what is established for Degree Courses (DM 270/2004), and the same for residual five-year VO courses.

    For AFS, all courses activated at the DAFNE, DIBAF, and DEB Departments are optional, as they are consistent with the educational project of the various CCdS of the Department. In all other cases, interested students must submit a specific motivated application to the CCdS.

    At least 50% of the CFUs of AFS provided must be carried out in the form of an exam with a grade. Up to a maximum of 50% of the CFUs provided, exams with a pass/fail judgment or other training activities (internship, orientation, other activities upon prior and motivated approval of the CCS, subsequently approved by the CdD) are admitted. There are no extensions for final exams and thesis.

    Departmental teachers can offer specific courses as AFS at the beginning of each academic year or offer modules that have didactic coherence, extracting portions of curricular courses to offer in this case to students of other educational paths. Such offers must be approved by the CCdS and deliberated in the CdD and reported in the Manifests and in the Student Guide. To avoid affecting the DID, such courses or activities can be proposed as “advanced courses.”

    In the recognition of AFS, in the specific case of ERASMUS recognitions or in other international student mobility programs, and in these cases also for recognized compulsory courses, any decimal grades are rounded to the nearest whole number, according to the usual convention for deficiency or excess.

    Elective activities selected in study plans will be subject to sample checks.