External Internships

The external internships constitute an educative activity carried out by the university students, monitored by the universities. The external internships offer the students the possibility of complement their academic education and of acquire professional experience through the internship performance in one of the collaborating entities, including companies, institutions and entities, both public and private, in the national or international level, providing a first contact with what is likely to be their working environment.

Objectives

The objectives of the external internships are, among others, allow students to:

• Meet the working reality of the companies, institutions, and/or entities.
• Apply in the real practice of a collaborating entity the knowledges they acquired during their studies.
• Acquire the technical (know-how), interpersonal (behave accordingly) and of thinking (know how to be) skills that will enable them to face the labour market with higher success guarantees.

 

Modalities

The external internships can be carried out in two modalities:

CURRICULAR EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS

These are those configured as academic activities integrated as subjects within one of the study plans of the centre, like in the External Internships subject in the bachelor’s degrees in the centre, taught in the 4th year. In order to pass this subject the students must perform a stay in an external entity. To do this, there are agreements achieved with different centres.

EXTRACURRICULAR EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS

These are those that are performed voluntarily during the training period and that, even fulfilling the same purpose than the curricular internships, are not part of the corresponding study plan. However, this type of internship in reflected in the Diploma Supplement, according to the current legislation.

Introduction on the curricular external internships

 

Regulations

GENERAL REGULATION

Royal Decree 592/2014, of the 11th of July, which regulates the curricular external internships for university students

REGULATION ON INTERNSHIPS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIGO

Curricular external internships regulation for University of Vigo students
Instructions on the procedure to perform curricular external internships:

• Curricular External Internships
• Extracurricular External Internships

 

Formalisation documentation for internships

REQUEST

External Internship Request Form

FORMALISATION

D4 – Formalisation of curricular external internship. Document to formalise the curricular internship which includes the document D3 – commitment agreement of the student. It must be signed in triplicate, being one copy for the student, other for the mentor in the company and other for the centre.

MONITORING

D5 – Report of the mentor in the company or entity
D6 – Report of the student
D7 – Report of the academic mentor

ACCREDITATION

D8 – Acreditative certificate of the performance of curricular external internships

EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS REPORT

Model for an internship report

 

Current agreements

List of agreements with companies