Internship I

Coordination

• Anna Maria Dalmau Roda

Objectives

The subject External Practices I aims for the student to:

1. Learn more about the organizational structure of a company or entity.
2. Make the tasks of a biologist your own.
3. Apply the knowledge to your professional practice.
4. Deepen and relate scientific and technological concepts from various subjects of the degree.
5. Participate and reflect on situations specific to a professional activity.

Learning outcomes

• RA1. Design and develop a work plan based on prior instructions from the expert.
• LO2. Knows and uses routine laboratory instruments to carry out practices correctly.
• LO3. Knows and applies teamwork and communication mechanisms.
• LO4. Critically analyzes the results obtained in the experiments and exercises developed in the practices.
• LO5. Write an internship report correctly using the appropriate terminology.
• LO6. He knows the dedication and perseverance that scientific work requires.
• LO7. Acts in the usual situations and those typical of the profession with commitment and responsibility.
• LO8. Solves problems and situations specific to professional performance with entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes.
• RA9. It moves with desymboltura in the general use of ICT and, especially, in the technological environments specific to the professional field.
• RA10. It collects and interprets data and information on which it can base its conclusions, which include reflections on matters of a social, scientific or ethical nature.

Skills

General skills

• Be prepared to overcome adversity in professional activity and learn from mistakes in order to integrate knowledge and enhance one's preparation
• Endeavor to combine independence and personal initiative with teamwork in multidisciplinary activities.

Specific skills

• Master basic laboratory techniques in biology, apply protocols and use appropriate instruments, observing safety norms and correctly interpreting the results obtained.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
• Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific and ethical issues.

Core skills

• Display professional skills in complex multidisciplinary contexts, working in networked teams, whether face-to-face or online, through use of information and communication technology.
• Project the values of entrepreneurship and innovation in one's academic and professional career, through contact with a variety of practical contexts and motivation for professional development.
• Use oral, written and audiovisual forms of communication, in one's own language and in foreign languages, with a high standard of use, form and content.

Content

• Organizational aspects of a company or entity
• Functions specific to a biologist and his professional environment
• Methodologies for working with interdisciplinary teams of professionals
• Research methodologies, data analysis and report writing
• Processes developed in the company or entity
• Communication with professionals of the same or different discipline

Evaluation

In the Annex to the agreement, you must specify the tutors associated with the student in this internship subject, both from the company or entity and from the University.

The tutor of the external entity is the person designated by the company who maintains constant contact with the student and accompanies him throughout the internship period. The entity's tutor must fill in the evaluation form provided by the UVic-UCC academic tutor, in which the following are assessed:

• General aspects of the student's activity
• Achievement of the learning outcomes associated with the competencies
• Development of the tasks entrusted to the entity
• Overall assessment of the student's activity during the internship
• Strong points to highlight and aspects to improve

The academic tutor of the UVic-UCC ensures compliance with the internship program, monitors it and asks the company or entity for an assessment of the internships completed by the student. The academic tutor is the person responsible for correcting and evaluating the report.

The final assessment of the subject is made by the academic tutor of the UVic-UCC, who calculates the final grade taking into account the following items:

• Evaluation of the external tutor: 60%
• Practice report: 20%
• Assessment of the academic tutor: 20%

They are grounds for "suspension" in curricular practices:

• Failure to comply with the hours corresponding to the internship at the company or institution
• Failure to submit the internship report within the deadlines and with the established requirements
• Failure to fulfill the tasks assigned to the student (as part of the internship) at the company or institution
• Lack of discipline, breach of the code of ethics or breach of confidentiality

Methodology

In the year you want to do an internship, you must register for the internship together with the other subjects of the course in July.

1. Notify that you want to do an internship

At the beginning of the year in which a student wants to do an internship, it is necessary to notify by filling in the forms "Notification of intention to do an internship during the course", which is in the center classroom, practice section.

Once the internship coordination knows which students want to do an internship that year, mandatory orientation and training sessions are planned to help the student develop their resume and cover letters and learn how to interview.

Internship coordination and the Careers Service accompany students in their search for an internship.

2. Request for an internship agreement

When the student has already contacted an external company or entity and been accepted, they must fill out the form "Internship agreement request", which is in the center classroom, in the practice section.

Once the form is filled out online a copy of the DNI and CV must be sent by email to carreres.professionals@uvic.cat.

3. Signature of the annex to the agreement

Once the agreement request form is filled in, the Careers Service prepares the annex to the agreement for the student in question. The agreement between the company or entity and the UVic-UCC must already be signed (if not, it is signed then).

This annex to the agreement is sent by email to the company or entity and to the student and the UVic tutor. In this way, all parties involved have all the information associated with this internship (the UVic-UCC tutor, the company tutor, the internship period...).

4. Realization of practices

• It is essential that the agreement and the annex have been signed before starting the internship, in order to have valid insurance coverage (compulsory school insurance, accident insurance and civil liability insurance).
• When starting the internship, the student must contact the UVic tutor to establish how the follow-up will be done, to find out how it will be evaluated and how the report should be.
• You cannot be at the company from the final date stated in the annex to the agreement.

5. Delivery of the memory

Once the internship period has ended, you must hand in an internship report to the corresponding space in the internship classroom within a maximum period of 10 days after completing the internship. In internships that end at the end of January, at the beginning of June or at the end of August, the report must be prepared during the internship period and must be submitted by January 30 at the latest , June 5 or September 5. That way they can evaluate before the closing of the proceedings.

It must be remembered that each internship subject has an associated report, even if consecutive subjects are taken at the same company or entity. In addition to sending the report to the UVic tutor, it must be uploaded to the corresponding task in the practice Moodle classroom.

6. Evaluation

Based on the monitoring of the student, the internship report received and the report made by the tutor or external tutor, the UVic tutor evaluates the internship.

others

• The agreement is the document that regulates the collaboration between the company or entity and the University. The annex to the agreement is the specific document for a specific student in which all the details of the internship are specified (student details, tutors, period, tasks, skills...).
• It should be borne in mind that carrying out an internship in a company or organization does not entail any employment relationship (Royal Decree 1791/2010, of December 30).
• No annex can exceed the date of September 14, the official day of the end of the academic year. In addition, to facilitate the evaluation of practices, agreements are only made until August 15.
• In the event that either party, student or company, wishes to end the internship before the established deadline, it is necessary to notify the UVic tutor and fill in the termination form in the annex.

Extracurricular practices (PEC)

If they want to do extracurricular internships, the student must contact the company where they want to do the internship and fill in the "Agreement Request Form" with all the data. You can find it in the center classroom. Once sent, the Careers Service prepares the documentation to be able to sign the agreement between the University and the company and to be able to assign a tutor to the student. From here the procedure is the same as in the curricular practices.

In UAcademic (accessible from the main page of the UVic virtual campus) you can consult the PEC offers that the University has for the degree.

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