Internship I

Coordination

• Anna Maria Dalmau Roda

Objectives

The subject External Internships I has the following objectives:

• Learn more about the organizational structure of a company or external entity.
• Do the tasks of a biologist yourself.
• Apply knowledge to your professional practice.
• Deepen and relate scientific and technological concepts from various subjects of the degree.
• Participate and reflect on the own situations of a professional activity.

Learning outcomes

• LO1. Designs and develops a work plan based on prior instructions from the expert.
• LO2. Knows and uses routine laboratory instruments to carry out practical work correctly.
• LO3. Knows and applies teamwork and communication mechanisms.
• LO4. Critically analyze the results obtained in the experiments and exercises developed in the practices.
• LO5. Correctly write an internship report using the appropriate terminology.
• LO6. Knows the dedication and perseverance that scientific work requires.
• LO7. Acts in common situations and those specific to the profession with commitment and responsibility.
• LO8. Resolves problems and situations related to professional performance with entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes.
• RA9. Moves with ease in the general use of ICT and, especially, in the technological environments specific to the professional field.
• LO10. Collects and interprets data and information on which to base their conclusions, which include reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues.

Competencies

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 external entity
• Functions of 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 external entity
• Communication with professionals of the same or different discipline

Evaluation

In the Annex to the agreement, the tutors associated with the student in this internship subject must be specified, both from the company or external 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/her throughout the internship period. The tutor of the external entity must fill out the evaluation form provided by the academic tutor of the UVic-UCC, which evaluates:

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

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

The UVic-UCC academic tutor gives the final grade taking into account the following items:

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

They are grounds for "suspension" of 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 complete the tasks assigned to the student (within the framework of the internship) at the company or external entity
• Breaches of discipline, breach of the code of ethics or violation 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 on the July registration date.

1. Notify that you want to do an internship

At the beginning of the course in which a student wants to do an internship, the student must notify this by filling out the form "Notification of intention to do internships during the course", which is in the center classroom, in the practice section.

Once the internship coordination knows which students want to do internships that year, mandatory orientation and training sessions are planned to help the student develop the curriculum vitae, cover letters and learning how to conduct an interview.

The internship coordination and the Professional Careers Service accompany the student in their search for an internship.

2. Application for internship agreement

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

Once the form is filled out online A copy of the ID card and CV must be sent by email to scp.practiques.fcte@uvic.cat.

3. Signing of the annex to the agreement

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

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

4. Realization of practices

• It is essential that the agreement and 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-UCC tutor to establish how the monitoring will be carried out, to find out how it will be evaluated and what the report should be like.
• You cannot be at the company after the final date stated in the annex to the agreement.

5. Delivery of the report

Once the internship period has ended, a report on the internship must be submitted to the corresponding space in the internship room within a maximum period of 10 days after the internship has ended. 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 and must be submitted no later than January 30, June 5 or September 5. This way, they can be evaluated before the closing of the proceedings.

It is important to remember that each practical subject has an associated report, even if the subjects are taken consecutively and at the same company or external entity. Each report must be uploaded to the Moodle classroom of the practical subject in question.

6. Evaluation

Based on the monitoring of the student, the internship report and the report made by the external tutor, the UVic-UCC academic 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 particular student in which all the details of the internship are specified (student details, tutors, period, tasks, skills, etc.).
• It should be noted that carrying out an internship in a company or external entity does not entail any employment relationship (Royal Decree 1791/2010, of December 30).
• No annex may be submitted after September 14, the official end date of the academic year. Furthermore, to facilitate the evaluation of internships, agreements are only made until August 15.
• If either party, student or external entity, wishes to end the internship before the established deadline, the UVic-UCC tutor must be notified and the termination form in the annex must be completed.

Extracurricular practices (PEC)

In the event that they wish to do extracurricular internships, the student must contact the external entity where they wish to do the internship and fill out the "Agreement Application Form" with all the details. It can be found in the center classroom. Once sent, the Professional Careers Service prepares the documentation to be able to sign the agreement between the University and the company or external entity and to be able to assign a tutor to the student. From here on, the procedure is the same as for curricular internships.

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

The evaluation of PECs follows the same procedure as curricular internships (PC): based on the monitoring of the student, the internship report and the report made by the external tutor, the tutor from UVic-UCC evaluates the internships. Since they are not curricular internships, the grade can only be pass or fail.