Tutors for curricular internships and ECTS credits
The academic tutor for curricular internships is selected by the degree programme according to the programme’s Internships Regulations, where applicable, and to the University Academic Rules and Regulations.
The tutor is responsible for providing a preliminary assessment of the suitability of the proposed internship activities and their coherence with the student’s current studies, including, where necessary, recognition of the ECTS credits in their study plan.
The academic tutor is responsible for the approval of all curricular internships, even if ECTS credits are not relevant.
It is extremely important that the student knows who their academic tutor is and how the tutor will approve his/her internship when the intern agrees to activate it with the organisation/company.
The table below shows the different disciplinary areas within the University as well as degree programmes, academic tutors, procedures for approving an internship and for recognising ECTS credits.
| Disciplinary Area | Tutor's approval | Recognition of ECTS credits CFU (only for internships activated through COSP) |
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Through the portal |
At the end of the internship, submit your transfer credit application to COSP. All the information on the internship page of your degree programme |
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Through the portal. More information on the internship page of your degree programme. |
Follow the instructions on the internship page of your degree programme. |
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Through the portal. More information on the internship page of your degree programme. |
Follow the instructions on the internship page of your degree programme. |
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Through the portal for both professional and non-professional internships. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: tutor's letter. |
Follow the instructions on the internship page of your degree programme. For further information contact the student office. |
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Science and Technology |
Through the portal. More information on the internship page of your degree programme. |
Contact the student office. All the information on the degree programme websites. |
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Through the portal - for all degree programmes. |
Student office. |
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| Viticulture and enology: through the portal. All other programmes pertaining to the Faculty: tutor's letter. | Tutor and student office. | |
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Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication |
Through the portal. More information on the internship page of your degree programme. | Tutor and student office. All the information on the degree programme websites. |
| Through the portal. | At the end of the internship, have the tutor sign the transfer credit application form and e-mail it or hand it in to the student office at via Kramer 4/a. | |
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Medicine and Surgery |
COSP manages only voluntary internships and/or internships with private practices that are not part of the programme's training network. Approval is by letter except for Medicine - San Paolo and Vialba teaching hospitals (through the portal). More information on the internship page of your degree programme. | COSP manages only voluntary internships and/or internships with private practices that are not part of the programme's training network. More information on the internship page of your degree programme. |
When the organisation/company enters the training programme on the placement portal, the name of the academic tutor or a list from which the student can select a tutor, appears in the field “academic tutor”.
Once the training programme has been entered, an email is automatically sent to the tutor with a request for approval.
The tutor approves or highlights any corrections that need to be made.
Applies only to internships
- for theses for Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology and Pharmacy
- for bachelor’s degrees in Veterinary Medicine.
Organisation/company
- Enters the training programme
- A predefined entry (e.g. Traineeships Office, Academic Services Office, etc.) appears in the academic tutor field
- Adds the name of the academic tutor to the description entered in the field "internship activities”.
COSP
- Amends the tutor field
- Forwards the programme to the named tutor for approval.
When the organisation/company enters the training programme, a predefined entry (e.g. Traineeships Office, Academic Services Office, etc.) appears in the academic tutor field.
The student
- Downloads the tutor’s letter (with the exception of Agricultural Sciences students who must use a specific form)
- Asks their academic tutor to sign the letter
- Delivers the letter to the organisation/company.
The organisation/company
Uploads the letter on the portal along with the training programme in order to activate the internship.
COSP
Gives its approval through the portal.
Students who want their study plan to recognise:
- an internship activated through a sending institution other than the University
- volunteering activities
- civil service
- work activities
must check their degree programme (by contacting the Academic Services Office) to see the procedures for obtaining recognition of these activities, and must not activate an internship.
COSP does not deal with this type of recognition procedures.