Internships

• The internship Regulations, approved by the Course Council on 14 September 2020, which apply from the academic year 2020/2021 for all active cohorts. These regulations annul and replace the regulations previously in force.

• The Guidelines for the conduct of the internship and the drafting of the Individual Internship Plan, which guide the trainee and the company tutor in defining the internship pathway, provide guidance with respect to the drafting of the Individual Internship Plan, the final report by the trainee and the drafting of the company tutor's final assessment. 

The student must submit an APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE INTERNSHIP to the Internship Commission, following the instructions and deadlines given on the home page in the Notices section and on the Deadline Summary page.
Once the application has been received, the Internship Commission will match the Company/Student and the internship will be activated through an online procedure (https://www.unipr.it/servizi/servizi-lo-studio/tirocini-e-stage/tirocini...), as indicated below:
 

• The Institution willing to host the student in an internship must enter into an agreement* with the University of Parma;
• once the agreement has been approved, the Institution may proceed with the compilation of the training project through the "KNOWN STUDENT" procedure;
• once the Host Institution has started the "known student" internship, an internship application (training project) will be generated, which will always be visible to the student on the ESSE3 portal under the menu item my internships;
• the student must autonomously enter the name of the academic tutor in the internship application (training project);
• once the name of the academic tutor has been indicated and the training project has been viewed, the student may proceed to confirm the project by clicking on the "accept training project" button;
• once the student has been accepted, the system will automatically inform the academic tutor that he/she has been chosen and will invite the professor/instructor to enter ESSE3 to evaluate the training project;
• once the academic tutor has been approved, the Career and Services for Students office will conclude the procedure by starting the internship.

 
NB * If the company already has an on-line agreement with the University of Parma, it will immediately be possible to proceed with the compilation of the training project through the "KNOWN STUDENT" procedure.
 
For further information on the on-line internship activation procedure and to consult the GUIDE for Students click HERE.

If there are any changes (e.g. extension of the start or end date, temporary interruption of the internship, etc.) to what was previously indicated in the training project before starting the internship or during the course of the internship, these changes must be communicated in good time via the ESSE3 student page (My Internships menu item, click on the traffic light in the extensions and suspensions column for the internship concerned). This procedure must also be followed if the student concludes the internship, upon reaching 300 hours, before the deadline indicated in the training project.

Upon approval of the training project, the student must indicate the name of his/her university tutor.  
THE UNIVERSITY TUTOR of the degree course in  Planning and Management of Social Work is PROF. ANTONIA SANDROLINI

If, before the end of the on-line internship activation procedure or during the course of the internship, VARIATIONS occur with respect to what is indicated in the training project, these must be communicated by the student in good time by completing an on-line form available on the ESSE3 portal, under the menu item "my internships" (click on the traffic light in the extensions and suspensions column for the internship concerned. Then proceed to make a new request).
Examples of changes/alterations to the training project:

• extension of the start date;
• extension of the end date;
• temporary interruption of the internship;
• ending the internship earlier than the end date indicated in the training project.

 The recording of work internship ECTS credits in the student's career is only possible if the work internship is formally completed (it closes automatically when the end date indicated in the training project is reached). Therefore, in the event that the student has completed the 300 hours of internship before the end date indicated in the training project, he/she must, via the online procedure described above, close the internship early and then complete the mandatory questionnaire. In fact, the academic tutor will be able to check in ESSE3 the regularity of the internship and assess the internship course, instructing the Student Registry Office to award ECTS credits for a successful internship only once the internship has been formally completed.

AT THE END OF THE INTERNSHIP THE STUDENT MUST:
Please enter the following attachments in your on-line internships page (ESSE3) in the dedicated section:  

• the attendance sheet;
• final paper prepared by the student (see guidance in the Internship Guidelines);

A final interview with the university tutor is not required for the recognition of work internship ECTS credits. Therefore, at the end of the internship, the attachments must be uploaded in ESSE3 on the Internship page so that they can be assessed by the university tutor.

To add an attachment, you have to ⇒ log into ESSE3 with your credentials and go to the section Internships (my internships) and under Attachments enter the document.
Adding attachments to the internship application may be done by the student at any time during the internship, even at the end of the internship, but it is strongly recommended that they be added before the formal closure of the internship.
The attachments entered by the student will always be visible to the academic tutor and the contact person of the host organisation. Likewise, the documents attached by the host organisation's contact person to a student's application for an internship will be visible to the student and the academic tutor.

ATTENTION: The display of attachments is allowed to all actors in the process, but THE MODIFICATION AND REMOVAL of attachments is only allowed to the user who has inserted them.
 

• Fill in the final evaluation questionnaire: The student's completion of the final internship evaluation questionnaire is a prerequisite for authorisation of the recognition of internship ECTS credits on the student's transcript. This is permitted from the day after the end of the internship. Once completed, the questionnaire will always be visible to the Host Organisation and the Academic Tutor but cannot be recompiled.

ON CONCLUSION OF THE INTERNSHIP THE COMPANY REFEREE SHALL:

• Attach the final internship evaluation online to the student's training project.

Attachments can be added to the internship application by the company contact person at any time during the internship and will always be visible to the company contact person, the student and the academic tutor.
To add an attachment, log in to ESSE3 with your credentials, click on the My Internships menu item in the INTERNSHIP section and consequently on the "View" item corresponding to the row of the student internship for which you wish to add a "new attachment".
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE INTERNSHIP THE UNIVERSITY TUTOR SHALL:

• Evaluate the internship course taking into account the evaluation expressed by the company tutor and the materials attached by the student in ESSE3.  If the student has complied with all the requirements and the course has been completed successfully, the university tutor approves the internship for the subsequent recognition of ECTS credits.

REPORT AND SHARE YOUR INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE If you would like to tell and share your internship experience, please write to the Internship Office by filling in this form

The certificate for the role of company tutor can be obtained through the following procedure:
When the internship has ended, i.e. when the internship application is in the "CLOSED" status in the student's ESSE3 reserved area, the trainee can produce the certificate for the company tutor; to do this, go to the menu item Student Registry Office - Self-certifications and print Diploma Supplement and click on the link Social Worker internship certificate in the section PRINTING LIST, SELF-CERTIFIED DATA AND DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT.
The student will then be shown all closed internships. Click on the work internship for which you wish to generate the certificate, the procedure will produce a self-certification in pdf format which the student must download and then attach to the work internship application (menu item internships and job placements - my internships - View button in the Attachments column), thus making it available to the work internship contact person.

• For information on internship activation and agreement procedures, students and companies can contact the course's didactic Student Registry Office ( giurisp.didattica@unipr.it );
• For information on the status of internship agreement activation and assistance with the online procedure, students and companies can contact the University Internship Office directly (tirocini@unipr.it).

 Please consult the guides before activating the support service: Procedures for students and Procedures for companies

Application for admission to the internship

Submission of individual internship plan

Possible submission of application for recognition of ECTS credits

Possible submission of application for delayed start of internship

You can contact the Internship Office to tell and share your internship experience using this FORM

If you need information that you were not able to find on the degree course website, if you would like to submit reports or make suggestions, please write to the internship commission by filling in this form ⇒ FORM