Duration and credits

The internship must comply with the provisions of the law and the Regulations for the training and orientation internship of the Department of Economics and Management, available in the downloads.

Make sure you have carefully read the Regulations and the information on this page before starting the internship.

You can start the internship if you have obtained at least 84 educational credits (CFU).

Below are the characteristics in terms of credits, duration in weeks and hours of internships for the Department's degree courses:

Study Programme	Credits	Minimum no. of weeks	Minimum no. of hours
Business administration and low (compulsory)	4	8	160**
Economics and Management (not compulsory)	0*	8	160**
Business Management (compulsory)	4	8	160**
Business management - part time (compulsory)	4	8	160**

* 1 additional point to the final exam
** at least 20 hours per week

For department's degree courses where the internship is mandatory, an internship lasting double the minimum allows you to request an additional point to the final exam.

More information on start and end dates, any suspensions, internship hours and absences can be found in art. 3 of the same Regulation.

Types of internships

Internship in a company / institution in Italy

Host Institution: find it through the Job Guidance Office, or on your own. In the second case, you should still inform the Job Guidance Office.

Start: follow the internship activation and carrying out procedures provided by the Job Guidance Office.

Duration: minimum of 8 weeks and maximum of 6 months, including the period dedicated to the drafting of the final report. If you choose the internship report as the subject for your thesis, the internship must last at least 4 months.

University tutor and business tutor: the university tutor is the didactic manager of the internship. You must identify a professor who can support you during the internship, acting as university tutor. The Department delegate (whose contacts are available at the bottom of this page) can provide guidance on finding a university tutor. The company tutor is identified by the internship host. Role and activities of the university tutor and company tutor are described in Article 7 of the Training and Orientation Internship Regulations.

Conclusion: for the recognition of the internship activity, follow the internship conclusion procedure provided by the Job Guidance Office (for the final report, see the specifications indicated in art. 8 of the Training and Orientation Internship Regulations). After sending all the documentation, Jobguidance will invite you to fill out the appropriate departmental apply and register for the session on Esse3.

If the student’s final exam (degree thesis) focuses on the internship experience, it will be assessed as established by the degree courses regulations (Business administration and law, Economics and Management, Business management, Business management – part time).

Internship in a company / institution abroad

The internship abroad can be carried out in Europe or a non-European country in the following ways:
- for European countries, there are usually Erasmus+ for traineeship calls for traineeship abroad published on the Active Calls page and managed by the International Mobility Office.
- if the traineeship abroad is carried out in a non-European country or does not fall within limits set by the Erasmus+ traineeship abroad call or is carried out entirely remotely, it is mandatory to contact the JobGuidance office.
Activation times could take up to 60 days from acceptance.
For the duration of the internship, the appointment of the university tutor, and the procedures for registering for the internship, it is necessary to refer to the Department training and orientation internship Regulations in the Download box.
Carrying out an internship under the Erasmus+ Internship Program could lead to additional rules to be followed.

Start: follow the procedure for activating and carrying out the internship indicated on the International website in the section "International opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree students" under the heading Single call for internships abroad.

The internship must take place following what is established in the Learning Agreement for Traineeship.

Duration: minimum of 2 months (60 days) with a minimum number of 32 hours per week. If you choose the internship report as the subject for your thesis, the internship must last at least 4 months. Absences or mobility interruptions are not expected, except for reasons of force majeure.

University tutor: here you can find the instructions on identifying the tutor for an internship in a European country or for an internship in a non-European country. The company tutor is identified by the internship host.

Role and activities of the university tutor and of the company tutor are described in article 7 of the Training and Orientation Internship Regulations, which you can find in the download box.

Conclusion: follow the procedures communicated via email by the international mobility office.

Internal internship - in University structures

The internal internship is a training activity inherent to one's own course of study to be carried out in the University laboratories, Departments or administrative services.

Start: prepare an internal internship project (form in the download box) and download the calendar for reporting the hours worked (form in the download box).

Two copies of the internal internship project must be signed (one copy of the original signed project must be left with the host structure and sent by email to placement.dem@unitn.it, the other copy remains with the trainee):

• in the case of a research internship, only by the professor of reference at the laboratory / Department;
• in the case of an internship in administrative offices, both by a teacher of the degree course (university tutor), and by the tutor of the host structure.

The university tutor/professor of reference sends the signed copy of the training project via email to the Department Delegate, thus communicating its start.

Duration: minimum of 8 weeks - maximum of 6 months, including the period dedicated to the drafting of the final report. If you choose the internship report as the subject for your thesis, the internship must last at least 4 months.

Conclusion: at the end of the training activity, the student will have to fill out the appropriate application (active from 1 April 2025), upload a report describing the activity carried out (see Article 8 of the Training and Orientation Internship Regulations) and a certificate (form in the download box) issued by the host/teacher of reference certifying the activity and the number of hours carried out, together with the calendar of hours undertaken.

If the student’s final exam (degree thesis) focuses on the internship experience, it will be assessed as established by the degree course regulations (Business administration and law, Economics and Management, Business management, Business management – part time).

Internship under the agreement with the Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Trento and Rovereto.

Internship under the agreement with the Provincial Order of Labor Consultant

Start: in order to optimize the time needed to access the profession of Labor Consultant, students enrolled in DEM Bachelor degree courses who have taken and passed all exams of the first and second years may apply to be admitted to the internship period (pursuant to art. 9, paragraph 6, of Legislative Decree 24 January 2012, no. 1, converted into law no. 27 of 24 March 2012), by means of a request to be submitted to the Job Guidance Office of the University of Trento for subsequent forwarding to the Provincial Council of the Order of Labor Consultants signatories of the agreement, by December 15^th or June 15^th each year.

The trainee/student, on acceptance, must request immediate registration on the register of practitioners held by the Provincial Council of the Order, in compliance with the provisions of the current Regulation on compulsory internship for access to the profession of Consultant of Labor.

Duration: students admitted to the internship period in agreement with the Provincial Order of Labor Consultants will carry out a period of practice lasting six (6) months in a professional office of a labor consultant, identified by the Provincial Council of the Order, duly registered in the Register and in compliance with mandatory ongoing training. Any period spent abroad attending courses recognized by the University of Trento will result in the suspension of the internship for the corresponding period.

Conclusion: the planning, assessment, and verification that the internship has actually been undertaken remains responsibility of the Provincial Council of the Order of Labor Consultants in which the host, the professional, is registered.

Activities recognizable by the Department Delegate and any exceptions

In place of the internship, other professional experiences may be recognized by the Department Delegate, for example:

• activities carried out in the context of youth entrepreneurship projects proposed by the university tutor;
• internships carried out abroad as part of EU programs;

May be considered equivalent to internships by the Department Delegate, provided that they are consistent with the course of study and in compliance with any condition set by the Delegate, limited to the study programmes for which the didactic regulation requires the undertaking of a compulsory internship (GA and AAD) :

• the experiences carried out by student workers
• the voluntary civil service activities carried out at accredited National Civil Service bodies

Request for recognition:

The request for recognition must be sent by email:

• part-time GA students will send the documentation to the part-time program tutor by email.
• GA (normal program) and AAD students will send the documentation to the Department Delegate by email.

The documentation to be produced concerns:

• a written report (following the downloadable format from the download box)
• a certificate of service that certifies the performance of the work/civil service activity at the employer institution/company, the task/role performed, the type of contract with indication of the number of hours per week, start date of the work activity (and any end date if it has concluded)

Both documents must be signed by the student and countersigned by the employer/accredited host institution.

Registration:

Following the analysis of the recognition documentation, students who have obtained a positive evaluation will be invited to fill out the relevant apply and then register for the session on Esse3.

Any motivated exeptions on the credits required to start the internship (84 CFU), granted for no more than 12 training credits in total, must be requested from the Department delegate for internships.