Internship

The Internship (6 ECTS) is a laboratory activity which is part of the experimental work for the thesis preparation.


Route to be followed to carry out the Internship:

1. Choosing the laboratory

The Student must identify a laboratory in which the activity will be performed.
Either an "Internal laboratory" or an "External laboratory" can be chosen (External facilities and departments of the University of Pisa already affiliated with the Department of Biology). 

The Internship can be performed in the same laboratory where the thesis already takes place or can be performed in other laboratories. In all cases, the student must activate both procedures, for the thesis (guidelines for internal thesis or for external thesis) and for the Internship (guidelines reported in this page).

Internal laboratory:

External laboratory*:

  • a laboratory external to the Department of Biology but internal to the University of Pisa headed by a faculty member NOT belonging to the Aggregate Council of Biotechnology 
  • a laboratory located at an affiliated external institution

*doing Internship in an external laboratory always requires the identification and assignment of an internal Tutor (chosen among teachers of the Biotechnologies and Applied Artificial Intelligence for Health master’s degree).

2. Application for authorization

After contacting the head of the chosen laboratory, it is necessary to submit the appropriate application by using the following forms*:

  • Internal Internship: Internal Internship request form

  • External Internship: External Internship request form + declaration of the host institution signed by the legal representative (except for Scuola Sant'Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore and CNR). (The declaration must be produced on the letterhead of the host institution and must necessarily contain the name of the legal representative, the details of the student, the start and end dates of the stay, and the reason for the stay at the institution. The declaration must be dated and signed by the legal representative of the host institution)

The forms must be sent to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. and cc’ed to the Tutor (and the external Tutor, if any).

In both cases, the Internship activity will be authorized after the above forms have been sent to the Teaching Unit.

The authorization by the Department's Teaching Unit, as communicated to the student and to the internal/external Tutor by e-mail, replaces in all respects the authorization of the start of the Internship by the Aggregate Council of Biotechnology (Resolution No. 37 of 03/04/2025, prot. AOO "BIO" 2125/2025).

Students will be allowed to start attending the Internship only after receiving such communication from the Department's Teaching Unit.

3. Features of the activity

1 ECTS credit of Internship corresponds to a workload of 25 hours. Internship involves a total of 150 hours of activities (6 ECTS).

4. Final evaluation

The evaluation method is a report on the Internship activities and/or topics. The features of the report are decided by the Internship supervisor: as an example, it could consist of a written laboratory report of about 5 pages (excluding tables and figures) on the Internship topic or of a seminar given to the research group on the Internship technology. 

The evaluation will consist of a "pass" or "fail" outcome based on the Internship supervisor's judgment. Students will not receive a numerical grade.

At the end of the evaluation process, the internal Tutor will send to the Department's Teaching Unit (Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.) the evaluation on the report performed by the student.

 

 

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