The internship is a training activity consistent with the degree programme, with the aim to make you apply the knowledge learned and to favour your future career choices and foresees:

• 15 credits (ECTS), that will be recognized after the completion of the activity;

• 375 hours of activity;

• you need to be enrolled in the second year and have gained at least 45 credits before the beginning of the internship;

• the internship project must be supervised by a tutor, a teacher or researcher of CIMeC or other profile as defined in the regulations.

You can carry out the internship in different modalities:

• internal internship, in one of the University of Trento Laboratories or structures

• External internship in Italy, in an organization external to UniTrento

• External internship abroad, in an organization external to UniTrento.

The internal internship is carried out in a CIMeC Lab or in another Lab or research group of the University of Trento.

To find information on the Labs and research groups at CIMeC, please check out the CIMeC Research Group page.

Before starting the internship

• Choose a Lab or research group and a university tutor, usually the PI who leads the Lab or a researcher.
• Agree with the tutor on the details of your internship: training modalities, objectives, weekly workload.
• Write a training proposal: this should be a short summary of (about 1 page of the project, explaining research background, hypothesis, methods, your role and learning goals (such as programming experiment, testing subjects, analysis).
• Fill out the Internal internship preliminary form and have it signed by the tutor.
• Fill out and submit the online application Beginning of the internal internship with the two documents attached.
• Wait for the approval by the Internship delegate, professor Moritz Wurm.

After completing the internship

• Write a final report structured as follows:
  • a brief analysis of the activities performed in terms of organizational and technological/scientific issues, with specific motivations for any failure or partial achievement of the objectives of the internship;
  • ad escription of the objectives of the internship and analysis of their level of achievement;
  • a description of the activities carried out, of the methods and tools used.
• The university tutor will approve the final report and signs the Internal internship completion form
• Fill out  the online application Conclusion of the internal internship with the final report and the Internal internship completion form signed by the university tutor.
• After the approval by the internal internship delegate, professor Moritz Wurm, internship credits are entered in your record book..

The external internship in Italy is carried out in a private or public company, institution or research center in Italy, other than University of Trento.

To start the external internship in Italy, please reach out to the UniTrento Job Guidance.

To carry out a traineeship abroad, you have to apply for an international mobility call.

The internship abroad must be at least 3 months long.