Curricular Internships in Italy

The Convenzione di tirocinio is an official agreement made between Politecnico di Torino and your Host Company/Institution. It must be signed BEFORE you start your internship. 

To find out if a company/institution has already entered into an agreement with Politecnico di Torino, you can:  

• type the company/institution name in the “Company/Institution name” field when you fill out your Progetto Formativo. If you find the company/institution in the drop-down list, it means that it has an agreement with Politecnico. In this case, you can continue filling out your Progetto Formativo;   
• open a ticket with main topic “Internship and Career Services” -  Curricular internship – Internship agreement.

If a company/institution does not have an agreement with Politecnico di Torino, you need to inform them that they need to follow the procedure below:   

• Italian companies/institutions must register on Politecnico WEBSITE. Please note that it is their responsibility to register on our website, not yours;
• after registration, the company/institution will receive its access credentials to log in to our platform (private corporate area). From this page, the company can fill out a form to request to enter into an agreement for Curricular Internships with Politecnico di Torino;
• the system will generate the Internship Agreement. The company/institution must sign it (digitally) and upload it to its corporate area (detailed instructions will be provided during the process). The Agreement needs a revenue stamp according to DPR n. 642/1972. The tax (€ 16.00 revenue stamp - to be paid by the employer except in cases of exemptions provided for by the regulations in force) may be paid by applying a paper mark on the document which can be kept at the office of the employer or, alternatively, through the payment of a telematic revenue stamp indicating its details.

The automatic procedure for recovering lost credentials is available HERE.

If you have not registered yet, you can register at this LINK.

An agreement enters into force after it has been signed by Politecnico di Torino.

TEMPLATE for Convenzione per tirocini curriculari e pratico valutativi

The Progetto Formativo (Training Project) is a document that you must fill out online. It must be appovated BEFORE the beginning of your internship. 

It includes the following information:  

• your personal data; 
• information on your Host Company/Institution and contact details of your Company/Institution Tutor (the person chosen to assist and guide you during your internship);
• contact details of your Academic Tutor, a PoliTO faculty member chosen by you or automatically assigned to you, depending on the rules of your degree programme. Your Academic Tutor is in charge of verifying that the contents and activities carried out during your internship actually match those declared by the Host Company/Institution;
• internship dates (important in order to provide insurance coverage);  
• expected training outcomes and contents of your internship.

How to fill out your Progetto Formativo:  

• log in to your personal page of the Teaching Portal using your access credentials (Login);
• select the "Opportunities" tab and click “Career Hub/Internship/New Progetto Formativo”;
• enter the company/institution name in the “Company/Institution name” field: if you find the company/institution in the drop-down list, it means that it has an agreement with Politecnico. In this case, you can continue filling in your Progetto Formativo;
• if the company/institution is not included in the drop-down list, go to  “Convenzione di Tirocinio” and follow the procedure. Then go back to your Progetto Formativo and move to the next step;
• fill out your Progetto Formativo in detail: if you do not have some information, ask your Company/Institution Tutor or your Academic Tutor;
• click “SAVE AND SUBMIT FOR APPROVAL”. Your project will be assessed in this order by:
  - your Company/Institution Tutor, who receives an e-mail with a link to a page where he/she can accept or reject your project. Make sure you enter the correct email address;
  - your Academic Tutor, who can approve or reject your project from his/her personal page, and/or by the Internship Coordinator of your degree programme, who approves and VALIDATES your project.
  These approvals are given online. Hard copies of these documents and signatures are not required;
• after the validation of your Progetto Formativo, the Host Company/Institution can visualize it from its private area of the portal. You can also download a pdf version of this document and send it to the Company, if needed.

WARNING: make sure that you have correctly entered the data previously agreed with the company/institution. After saving and submitting it for approval, you will not be able to modify your Progetto Formativo.

TEMPLATE of a curricular Progetto Formativo

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Internal internships

If you are doing your internship at Politecnico (in our offices, departments, interdepartmental centers and laboratories), you need to enter Politecnico di Torino as the Host Institution, as well as the Promoter. You need to specify the Office/Department and its address in the section of the training project dedicated to the duty station of the internship.

Check the Student Guide - Internships section to verify if you are allowed to do an internship at Politecnico di Torino, depending on the degree programme you are enrolled in.

Internships have a given duration (number of hours) and are worth a certain number of credits as specified in your Annual Personal Study Plan (1 credit = 25 hours). 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” (150 hour slots). 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 (the number of hours that you can select depends on your degree programme).
Any request to extend the duration of an internship must be decided together with the Host Company/Institution. It MUST also be approved by a PoliTO faculty member (your Academic Tutor or the Internship Coordinator of 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 extra credit (i.e., they do not count towards the 120-credits threshold required for Master’s graduation).     

IMPORTANT: After requesting and confirming an extension, you must mandatorily complete all the hours (including the extension) in order to obtain the registration of your internship in your transcript.

After the beginning your internship:

• you must fill out an online timesheet, section "Opportunities" of the Teaching Portal (the same section of our training project) for each day of internship. You also need to specify the tasks that you have carried out during the day. Please note that a 30-minute break is mandatory after 6 hours of work;
• any changes from what has been established in your training project must be communicated to Politecnico:
  - extensions are only possible in order to reach the total number of hours established by the training project. Extensions do not need to be communicated. The additional period must be indicated directly in your timesheet. The last day shown on your timesheet will be considered the actual end date of your internship (the end date included in your training project is only tentative);
  - business trips: you must indicate day, time and location in your timesheet for insurance coverage;
  - further changes (company tutor, academic tutor and main duty station): the host institution is required to inform Politecnico by email to tirocini@polito.it

At the end of your internship:

• both you and your company tutor are required to fill in an online questionnaire (mandatory for you - section "Attachement/Registration request", and optional for your tutor - who will receive a link about one week before the end date of the internship indicated in the training project or the actual end date, if earlier);
• you will be required to submit your timesheet to your company tutor for online approval (section "Attachement/Registration request");
• after your timesheet has been approved by your company tutor, you must upload your internship report (if required by the rules of your degree programme) and send it for approval to your academic tutor and/or Internship Coordinator together with your timesheet (click the button at the bottom of the page). If the report is not required by your degree programme (or by your academic tutor), the system allows you to send your documents for approval even if you have not uploaded any report;
• the Internship Coordinator and/or the academic tutor are responsible for the registration of your internship in your transcript.