Establishing an internship agreement

The curricular internship is the placement undertaken by a student enrolled in bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes, master’s programmes, doctoral programmes, and specialty schools.
Each individual internship may have a maximum duration of 12 months, including extensions, except as provided by regulations for students with disabilities.

The curricular internship can be carried out exclusively at internal Department facilities or at affiliated external facilities.

The procedures and forms for carrying out curricular internships within the degree programmes in Veterinary Medicine (MV), Animal Breeding Techniques and Dog Education (TAAEC), Animal Production Sciences and Technologies (STPA), and Sustainable Livestock Systems (SZS) are available on the Internship pages of the respective courses.

Curricular internship at Partner Companies

For the completion of a curricular internship at internal facilities of the Department of Veterinary Sciences, it is necessary to prepare the “Internal Training Project”.

For curricular internships at external institutions, a list of external companies that have signed agreements for curricular internships is available. The participating companies/institutions already have access credentials to the University Portal for managing “Training Projects.”

For further information and contacts, please refer to the Academic Unit at the email address:  pratiche.studenti@vet.unipi.it.

Curricular internship at non-Partner Companies

To carry out a curricular internship at non-affiliated Companies/Institutions, it is necessary for the Company/Institution to submit a proposal for establishing a new agreement for curricular internships.
The proposal must be submitted by accessing the dedicated University portal, in the section reserved for Companies/Institutions, selecting “Proposal for an agreement with a University Department for curricular internships” and then choosing the “Department of Veterinary Sciences”.
The procedure for completing the agreement is guided.

Foreign Companies/Entities

In the case of foreign Companies/Institutions, agreements are not managed through the portal and may be proposed by Department faculty using the designated forms.
The proposing faculty member must send the following documentation to the Department Management and to the email address convenzioni.tirocinio@vet.unipi.it.

1. Training Agreement proposal;
2. Declaration from the legal representative of acknowledgment and acceptance of the Tutor training document (ITA form – ENG form), signed in original;
3. Presentation documentation from the Foreign Company/Organisation

The proposal will be discussed by the Department Council and, if approved, the agreement will be formalized according to the Training Agreement example.

Once the training objectives have been defined with the academic tutor and the intern, the Company/Institution enters the data required to complete the training project on the Portal, accessing the reserved area with its credentials. By way of exception, enrollment may take place at the Teaching Unit, by appointment, only for Companies/Institutions authorised by the Director and listed on the Teaching Unit page.

Once the procedure is completed, the training project must be finalized, made definitive, and printed in three originals, signed by the academic tutor, the company tutor, and the intern to signify acceptance.
Next to the tutors’ signatures, the respective stamps of the department and the company must be affixed.

One original must be submitted to the Teaching Unit of the Department of Veterinary Sciences (Viale delle Piagge location) during office hours, in compliance with the deadlines and methods set forth in the regulations. After activation, the intern may begin the internship and submit the second original to the company; the intern must retain the third.

Obligations of the External Tutor

The “External Tutor” is the figure responsible for guiding the intern during the practical internship when carried out at a “Host Organization”.  Therefore, their training is essential to ensure the proper acquisition of skills by the intern. In this regard, a document has been prepared for the training of the external tutor, titled the ‘Tutor Training Document“. It is therefore necessary that, at the time of signing the Agreement for Curricular Internships with the Department of Veterinary Sciences, the Legal Representative of the hosting Company/Entity signs the specific declaration, attesting both that they have read and accepted the contents of the aforementioned “Tutor Training Document” and that they commit to disseminate it and ensure that it is made available to all those who will act as “External Tutors” at the Company/Entity they legally represent.

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