During your internship you will be supervised and assisted by:

• a university tutor, to be selected amongst all members of the teaching staff of the departments involved in the Master's Degree in Data Science, the members of its Master’s Management Committee, or amongst all instructors of courses offered by the Master's Degree in Data Science in the current academic year or in the one preceding the start date of the internship.
• a company tutor, who will be responsible for integrating the intern within the host institution, guarantees that the activities included in the training plan (see below) are carried out, and collaborates to the final evaluation of the internship. The company tutor interacts, even remotely, with the university tutor and is required to draw up an evaluation at the end of the internship.

In the case of an internal internship, the figures of the university tutor and the tutor of the host structure may coincide.

Your internship depends on a Training Plan that you must design together with the company tutor and the university tutor. The training plan must include:

• the details of the intern
• the details of the university tutor
• the learning objectives, activities, and means for carrying out the internship
• the obligations of the parties involved.

Your internship can start exclusively after the contents and the conditions outlined in the Training Plan are approved by both the university and the company tutors.

During the internship you must keep an Internship Diary (see file attached).

Moreover, during your internship you will be subjected to the following obligations:  

• You must comply with: the contents of your individual Training Plan, disciplinary regulations, organizational, safety and hygiene rules at work and the legislation on the protection of personal data;
• You must maintain, during and after the internship, the utmost confidentiality with regard to data, information or knowledge about production processes and products acquired during the internship
• You must obtain a formal authorization from the host structure for any report intended for third parties
• You must respect all instructions about the processing of personal data.
• If a code of conduct or internal regulations are present at the host organization, the intern is required to respect them.

Phase 1

Fill in the webform DSRS -Internship closing - Phase 1.

Upload the following documents:

• “Certificate part one of internship” (available in your Esse3 private area) signed by business mentor and by you
• the “Final Internship Report”

The Final Internship Report must consist of at least 5 pages, format A4, font ‘sans serif’ (such as ‘Arial’), minimum of 11 point and 1.5 line spacing and contain:

• presentation of the host
• analysis of the activity carried out during the internship period
• reference to the objectives defined in the internship project and analysis of their degree of achievement
• final consideration on the experience: evaluation of the experience from both an educational and relational point of view; assessment of the adequacy of their university preparation for carrying out the activity envisaged by the internship project
• satisfaction in terms of expectations and results

Once the form is filled out, the Job Guidance office will issue the “Internship part two certificate” on your Esse 3 private area: you must sign it and have it signed by your academic tutor. Fill in and upload it in the DSRS - Internship evaluation - Student questionnaire.

For  internal internship. The system automatically sends an email to the business tutor inviting him or her to fill out the “End-of-internship evaluation questionnaire”.

Phase 2 (only for external internship)

Phase 2 is required only for external internship.

• As the academic tutor returns you the "Second part of internship certificate" signed in your reserved area in Esse3, upload  it to the webform DSRS - Internship closure - Phase 2.
• Fill in and upload it in the DSRS - Internship evaluation - Student questionnaire.

Once the form “Phase 2” is filled out, the system automatically sends an email to the business tutor inviting him or her to fill out the “End-of-internship evaluation questionnaire”.

As soon as the tutor has completed the evaluation, you will receive a notification. Then the Stage office asks for approval of the internship by the Programme's President for ECTS registration.