Internship

CURRICULARS

These correspond to the Plan of Studies for the Degree in Agri-Food Engineering and Biological Systems, being an optional subject of the 4th course and is part of the 18 credits optional that you can distribute between:

• External Curricular Practices (maximum 12 ECTS).

• Offer optional subjects with the corresponding mention.

• Recognition for participation in university, cultural, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation activities (maximum 6 ECTS).

To carry out curricular internships in collaborating entities you must be enrolled in the subject "Internships in companies" to the degree you are studying.

How can you enroll in the subject at any time during the course, it is recommended that you do it when you already have an entity where to do them and know exactly the hours you are going to do and their equivalence in ECTS (30 hours = 1 ECTS).

EXTRACURRICULAR

They are voluntary by the students and even if they are not in the Study Plans will be reflected in the Supplement European Title.

To carry out extracurricular practices in collaborating entities you must have more than 50% of the credits corresponding to the degree you are studying at the UPCT.

 The Internship in Company will be offered by the collaborating company or institution, which must have an agreement signed with the UPCT. The tutor appointed by the collaborating company or institution must be a person related to it, with professional experience and with the necessary knowledge to carry out effective guardianship. It may not coincide with the person who performs the functions of academic tutor of the University. The internship coordinator will select an academic tutor who must be a UPCT professor, with preference for the degree itself, and, in any case, related to the area of ​​knowledge to which the internship is linked. All the process will be managed through the SIPEM platform of the UPCT.

It will be mandatory to develop a Training Project that will be agreed between the academic tutor and the company tutor and will be included in a document annexed to the Educational Cooperation Agreement, with specific conditions for each student. The final academic grade awarded to the student will be the result of the weighted sum of the grades awarded by both tutors, the assessment of the tutor of the collaborating entity having a weight of 30% and the assessment of the academic tutor 70%.

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